Elly Wright joined the Museum in October as Education and Access Officer. Elly will be working with local groups, from schools and pre-schools to organisations working with the elderly, to help them make full use of the resources the museum has to offer. She will also be organising our programme of family activities in school holidays.

To contact Elly - E-mail stneotsmuseum@tiscali.co.uk or phone 01480 388921.

Elly will be at the Museum regularly on Fridays, or leave a message at other times.

St Neots Museum is involving local youth sports groups in a special summer project.

're:action' is giving young people an opportunity to develop their creative skills whilst bringing the museum's archive of sport photography bang up-to-date.

Organisations involved are St Neots Rowing Club, the Colts Football Association, the Hockey club and users of the towns fantastic new skate park.

Gilly Vose, co-ordinator of the project for the museum said: "The museum wished to provide a forum for positively promoting young people and sport in the town and to give participants a fun way of creating an important record for future generations. The project will culminate in an exciting performance combining images and sound and an exhibition at the museum that will capture each group's spirit and skill".

Artist and award-winning photographer Karen Harvey has been commissioned to capture images and sound at local sporting events - including the clubs' social events - and to bring out the young sportsmen and women's creative side.

She said: "All the young people I've met have been great and there are some very talented photographers amongst them! I'm really enjoying being a part of such an interesting and fun project. Unfortunately there just isn't time to visit all St Neots' sports clubs, but people can get involved by logging onto the project web site at www.myspace.com/stneots or contacting me at info@karen-harvey.co.uk"

're:action' forms part of the three-year Huntingdonshire Heritage Programme, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Cambridgeshire County Council, Huntingdonshire District Council and other local heritage organisations.

For more information and press photo-opportunities contact Gilly Vose, Outreach Officer, Huntingdonshire Heritage Programme, on 01480 375819 or Karen Harvey on 07971 849 355.