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“Friends of the Year 2025” Award

The Friends of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery are joint winners of the 2025 BAFM “Friends of the Year” Award The award is sponsored by the Marsh Charitable Trust in partnership with the British Association of Friends of Museums. The Marsh Trust specialises in providing small annual grants to charities across a wide range of  activities and runs the Marsh […]
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Joy Heffernan (1931-2024)

With great sadness I must report the death on 21st February 2024 of Joy Heffernan, our long serving Chairman and then President, at the family home in Balderstone. She had not been well and had been unable to attend our meeting for some time. Our thoughts are with Seamus, JaneAnn, Kevin and all her family. Joy became Chairman of the […]
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Committee Meeting

The next committee meeting will take place at 6.30pm on 18th February 2025 at the 36 Parsonage Road. NOTE the change of venue – the Museum is not available for this meeting.
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