CCS

CCS Founder: Collections Management and Project Manager Specialist.

Helen Sanderson

Helen has over 15 years of collection care and management experience in museums and historic houses. Working her way up through the National Trust from Conservation Assistant to Collections and House Manager, Helen has built an extensive knowledge in preventative conservation and the management of historic houses.

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Helen has worked on several building and conservation projects, including being the Project House and Collections Manager for the National Trust’s £5.6 million Vyne reroofing project and Project Manager for ‘Fabric for the Nation’, a £650,000 project to clean and repair the Soho Tapestries.

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Her areas of knowledge include: balancing conservation needs with public access, developing and implementing security and fire policies and plans, supervising hospitality and filming events, managing and creating environmental control, and supervision of building work.

CCS Founder: Curator and Collections Management specialist

Kate Walter

Kate studied Art History at UCL before completing a MA in Preventive Conservation at Northumbria University. This was followed by a MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Associateship of the Museums Association.

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Kate also began her career as a Conservation Assistant at the National Trust. She soon discovered an enthusiasm for collections management and moved to the role of Collections Officer. In parallel, she worked as a Library Assistant at the National Portrait Gallery, progressing to the role of Assistant Curator. While not working for CCS, she is currently the Curator at Arundells, an independent historic house museum in Salisbury.

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Her specialist knowledge is of oil paintings and works on paper, but Kate has also worked with mixed collections. She has worked on cataloguing (CMS, Modes, Mimsy XG), documentation backlogs, collection reviews and writing collections management policies and procedures to Spectrum 5.1 standards.