Leach Pottery in Cornwall undergoing transformation project

The Leach Pottery is currently undergoing a site-wide transformation project: The Leach Pottery: the next 100 years.

Its £9.6m capital programme will invest in new learning and production studio facilities, repair and conserve the historic buildings, and reinterpret the site through new displays and exhibition spaces.

Learning at The Leach Pottery, Leach Pottery (Image: Ellen Love)

The project will significantly enhance visitors’ experience, expand its provision for local communities and create more opportunities to engage in the story of this internationally renowned site.

Among the new roles on offer:

•  Two new coordinator roles within the learning programme, ‘Make with Leach’.
• Make with Leach offers participants who would otherwise face barriers accessing the Leach Pottery ways of engaging with the pottery and ideas of the Leach Pottery. The programme enables the development of new and transferable skills, qualifications and rehabilitation.
•  A Communications & Marketing Apprentice to support Stakeholder Communications Manager in delivering Leach Pottery’s communications and marketing on a day-to-day basis.
•  A Volunteer Coordinator who will help to ensure that the Leach Pottery evolves as a nurturing and exciting place for volunteers to be part of the team. The Volunteer Coordinator will play a central role in the Leach Pottery team and support the delivery of the National Lottery Heritage Fund capital and activity programmes.

Impression of how Leach Pottery will look (Image: Dow Jones Architects)

There are also three roles relating to the development of the new museum:

•  An Interpretation Lead to lead the development and installation of new interpretation as part of a significant redevelopment of the Leach Pottery site and deliver a final installation that will cater to our diverse audiences.
•  An Interpretation Curator will work with the Interpretation Lead and the Interpretation Design Team to develop the interpretation for the new museum displays. This will include working with the Learning & Participation team to create opportunities for creating content with the local St Ives community and the national studio pottery community.
•  A Curatorial Assistant, Collections, to work with the Curator & Deputy Director and the Interpretation and Design teams to develop and deliver interpretive content for our capital development and activity programmes.

Interested individuals can find more information and application details on the Leach Pottery website: https://www.leachpottery.com/work-with-us.

Gary Topp, chair of Leach Pottery’s trustees said: “We are excited to be undertaking a major transformational project at Leach Pottery and we are looking for some new colleagues to join the team and help us to deliver our ambitions.

“This is an exciting time to join the Leach team and we very much look forward to hearing about your skills, expertise and ideas.

“We are thrilled to have received this support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players we can develop the Leach Pottery for generations to come.”

The closing date for all roles is September 23 with interviews expected to take part during the week beginning September 30.