Sandford Award Winners 2018
Bassetlaw Museum
Belton House
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre
Boughton House
Brading Roman Villa
Creswell Crags Museum and Heritage Centre
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dinefwr, National Trust
Discovery Point and RRS Discovery
Eastbury Manor House
Fota Wildlife Park
Gilbert White & The Oates Collections
Hampton Court Palace
International Bomber Command Centre
Leeds Discovery Centre
Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills
MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) - Time Truck
Mousetrap Theatre Projects’ Creative Learning Portfolio
Muckross Traditional Farms
National Civil War Centre - Newark Museum
National Coal Mining Museum for England
National Justice Museum
Peterborough Museum
Preston Park Museum and Grounds
Ripon Museum Trust
River & Rowing Museum
Southwell Minster and the Archbishop’s Palace
St Albans Cathedral
Staircase House
The Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge
The Bowes Museum
The Commandery
The Historic Dockyard Chatham
The John Moore Museum
The Museum of Cannock Chase
The Postal Museum
The Priest’s House Museum
The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
The Workhouse, Southwell
Thwaite Mills Watermill
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust
Verdant Works
Victoria Tunnel
Wilberforce House Museum
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, The All England Lawn Tennis Club
Worcestershire County Museum
Creswell Crags Museum and Heritage Centre, Derbyshire (Sandford Award winner 2018)
Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills- Leeds Museums and Galleries ( Sandford Award winner 2018)
Mousetrap Theatre Projects' Creative Learning Portfolio, London ( Sandford Award winner 2018)
Testimonials from previous winners
The feedback that we receive from applicants shows how valuable they find the process:
"The Sandford Award is an honour to hold as a heritage organisation. Everything, from the criteria on the application form, the consideration of the judge during their visit and the wonderful ceremony that takes place for winners, is conducted professionally and to a really high quality."
“We gained ‘Quality Assurance’ from a well respected and widely acknowledged organisation.”
“A thorough process of evaluation and assessment by the judges that helped us analyse our education programmes for schools, to realise our achievements and to identify areas to improve.”
"The judge's report was very useful to evaluate our service and to show stakeholders what a good job we do."
“A thorough judging process. An award worth having.”
“It was a rigorous process for assessing the quality of the educational provision within the heritage sector, which could then be flagged up as a Quality Mark to our users, potential users and colleagues.”
"The judge's report was extremely useful, confirming good practice and suggesting ways to move forward."
"The judge was friendly, courteous, well prepared and very professional and spent a generous amount of time giving feedback"
Clitheroe Castle, Lancashire (Sandford Award Winner 2015)
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