In brief

Boris Johnson has published a guide to volunteering across the arts and cultural sector in London. The guide is part of the mayor’s volunteer strategy, dubbed “Team London”, a city-wide initiative designed to increase volunteering and engagement by Londoners in charity work.

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The University of Bristol has created a £300,000 storage facility to house the Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection, which comprises more than 500,000 items from the past 200 years of British theatre.

More than 350 works of art, props, press cuttings, costumes and ceramics form part of the holdings, along with material on major actors, writers and designers and almost every London theatre of the past two centuries. Pictured is Robert William Buss’ George Almar as Carnaby Catchpurse in The Cedar Chest (1834).

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council has agreed arrangements for the transfer of the revised Accreditation scheme to the arts council. It will be launched at the Museums Association conference in Brighton in October.

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Portsmouth City Council has decided to close all its museums, with the exception of the D-Day Museum, on Mondays to help meet budget cuts. Among those affected are the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum. All of the city’s museums will continue to open on bank holidays.