Volunteer with us

The BVMA is largely run by a volunteer Management Committee (meet the committee) with the help of a professional administrator and newsletter editor. Membership fees go to covering the basic cost of providing four newsletters per year and covering administrational expenses. Our conferences, study days, annual maker’s day exhibition and professional development courses are paid for out of the revenue that each of them earn. We constantly strive to increase the quality of our events, as well as to develop further ways to and this is where your support can help us through practical support or through sponsorship and advertising.

Write for us

Good articles in our Quarterly Magazine help us to increase our reputation and prestige, and have a direct influence on sustaining our membership. We are interested in discussing any topic that may be of interest to our membership in the broadest terms. Whilst we would like to attract cutting-edge articles representing the very best of research and expert techniques, we are also interested in sharing the love and passion of our craft, so if there is anything at all, from an eighteenth-century endpin to the work of an eccentric victorian amateur maker that you think deserves a wider audience, we look forward to hearing from you. We particularly encourage showcasing and reviewing new products, but we ask that commercial contributors commit to a period of advertising in return for coverage of their products.

Contact Emma at: bvmanewsletter@gmail.com

Volunteer your time

We are currently seeking volunteers for the following roles: