Cardiff Story Museum

We Are Five

Marketing and promotional activity

Examples of social media activity: Twitter

Examples of social media activity: Facebook

Full list of content re. Museum’s impact sent via social media:

We’ve held over 400 events for all the family since we opened #birthday #maketheDifference #weare5 We’ve helped community grps &organisations gain over £1million in funding for projects #maketheDifference #weare5 Our gallery information is available in 12 languages! #maketheDifference #weare5 We’ve won 9 awards since we opened in 2011 #maketheDifference #weare5 We've had 345,494 website hits since we opened in 2011! #maketheDifference #weare5 We’ve held over 70 exhibitions @thecardiffstory since April 2011 when we opened #maketheDifference #weare5 210 people have come together to meet new people and chat about their memories in our Reminiscence Monthly events #maketheDifference #weare5 Over 20museums from Wales, UK &world have asked us for advice! This is Paora from NZ #maketheDifference #weare5 13 Trustees have joined our Cardiff Museum Development Trust to help us fundraise for our projects and activities #maketheDifference #weare5 We run 22 different school visits #maketheDifference #weare5 551 stories, donated by public from all over Cardiff help us learn frm our past & present #maketheDifference #weare5 We use 8 different formats, 12 languages & 4 senses so everyone can have fun on a visit #maketheDifference #weare5 #AccessDay @Access_Day We’ve got 7,519 twitter followers #maketheDifference #weare5 James Dean Bradfield from @Manics called us "inspirational" when we opened! :-) #maketheDifference #weare5 Since we opened in 2011, 38 people have worked for @thecardiffstory #maketheDifference #weare5 4 apprentices have worked with us, gained qualifications...even won us an award! #NAW2016 #maketheDifference #weare5 8,063 objects have been donated by people all over Cardiff, to help us tell the story of the city and county #maketheDifference #weare5

45 of our volunteers have got a job or place on a course because of their work with us #maketheDifference #weare5 We have 91 @amgueddfacymru objects on loan so we all can learn from the stories they tell #maketheDifference #weare5 1,148 people are our facebook friends #maketheDifference #weare5 Over 1,700 babies, toddlers and their grown ups have enjoyed our Dinky Dragons events #maketheDifference #weare5 Our team have had over 1,025 enquiries for more information about Cardiff’s history and heritage since we opened #maketheDifference #weare5 We’ve secured £1,028,759 in grants for our projects with Cardiff communities #maketheDifference #weare5 Our team have given 14 presentations at major conferences about us and our community work #maketheDifference #weare5 193 volunteers have worked with us over the last 5 years #maketheDifference #weare5 Our #volunteers have given 12,402 hours of their time to help us #maketheDifference #weare5 Our volunteers have given at least £102,317 worth of time to the museum #maketheDifference #weare5 We’ve worked with and supported over 125 different community groups and organisations #maketheDifference #weare5 19community groups worked with us to create their own City Showcase exhibitions #maketheDifference #weare5 #peopleMW The Old Library’s tiled corridor opened again as part of our development #maketheDifference #weare5 #architectureMW Our phase 1 cost £2.4million & funded by @hlfcymru @cardiffcouncil Moondance Foundation #maketheDifference #weare5

Poster/flyer – sent as e-flyer and also printed out on-site

Activities during main event:

Balloon towers were sited at building entrances to encourage passers by to pop in.

Sororitas Choir

Craft activities

Face painting

Shipbuilding band

Party games

Cutting of the birthday cake

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