Take great photos
A picture is worth a thousand words. Watch our four short training films to help you take and edit amazing photographs of your church.
Online tourism training
We offer some great training sessions.
We also work with partners who offer training, advice and support.
Here we will try and list as many as we can that have online sessions and videos. Some are from heritage, arts, or other sector organisations. We've included any that we think might help you welcome visitors, tell the story of your church or promote what you are doing. They are in no particular order to please scroll through.
Grab a coffee, sit back and explore the possibilities.
2022 online training sessions
We organise regular training sessions via Zoom.
They will include our core sessions covering welcome, interpretation, publicity, social media, the effects of visitors and more. They will also feature our partners, including Ecclesiastical Insurance, Caring for God's Acre and others.
Our training videos
Make great films
If a picture speaks 1000 words, imagine what a video is worth. Watch our four short training films to help you take and edit brilliant short films of your church.
How to : short films
Create a QR code
By simply pointing your smartphone's camera onto a QR code this will open up a destination web address, document or something else.
5 actions towards sustainability
We are very grateful to Hamish Leese from Action for Hope at the Methodist Church for sharing five brilliant actions you can take today to help your church towards sustainability.
Find creative commons images
Most images shared online are protected by copyright. The good news is, it’s often easy to find an image that you can use.
Online sessions from other organisations
Image editing using free platform Pixlr
In this tutorial video, Alec from London Museum Development takes you through the free web platform Pixlr to edit your images.
Google Tour Creator : creating a free 360 tour
In this tutorial video, Alec from London Museum Development takes you through the process of creating a 360 degree tour of your museum, using the Google Tour Creator platform and the Google Street View app.
HitFilm Express video editing for beginners
In this tutorial, Alec from London Museum Development takes you through the process of using HitFilm Express to edit a video.
Social Media Strategy : creating a strategy from scratch
In this video, Alec from London Museum Development will take you through the basics of developing a social media strategy, looking at why one may be important for your use of social media and how you can use social media to help achieve your museum's missions and goals. This is a recording of a live training session, with delegate videos and contributions removed.
Social media analytics: intro to Facebook insights and Twitter analytics
In this video, Alec from London Museum Development will take you through social media analytics, looking at the how and the why. There will be a couple of activities to help you get to grips with the platforms in built analytics tools. This is a recording of a live training session, with delegate videos and contributions removed.
Google Slides : making an interactive experience
In this tutorial, Alec from London Museum Development shows you how to create an interactive experience (that could sit on your website or on a tablet in gallery) using Google Slides.
