TNMOC receives a Christmas decluttering gift
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TNMOC receives a Christmas decluttering gift
A crack team of professional organisers descended on The National Museum of Computing to help prepare for the popular family-friendly STEM Winter Bytes Festival.
As part of their donate-a-day to charity tradition for National Organising Week, eight members of the Association of Professional Declutterers and Organisers (APDO) tackled the challenge of sorting out the museum’s electronic Lego parts before moving on to help clean and categorise some computer components of decades ago.
Lisa Pantling of APDO said, “I go to work to get away from a Lego at home and was rather surprised to face it in a computing museum! But I quickly learned how popular it is at the museum’s Bytes Festivals and how Lego helps to develop creative computer thinking in young minds.
Imagine having a family numbering well into double figures playing Lego over many sessions and you can probably guess the task they faced!
Our members specialise in many areas, from hoarding behaviour to home staging, interior design and business productivity,” Lisa continued. “The Museum day turned out to be a lot of fun and needed to be fuelled only by coffee, cake and lots of laughs.”
Liz Aitken, of Carefully Sorted, was particularly pleased to be part of the group working at the Museum as her grandfather, Professor Alexander Aitken, had worked on Bletchley Park as a mathematician, statistician and cryptographer.
On behalf of TNMOC, Jacqui Garrad expressed her delight with the result of the expert declutterers’ work: “It is such a relief to have the Lego back in order for the Winter Bytes family festival. And we had the bonus of careful cleaning of the fascinating vintage exhibits that visitors love to browse outside the Innovation Hub. Let’s hope we don’t have to call them back too soon.”
STEM Winter Bytes 2019 with the Lego and many more family activities runs from 27-29 December 2019.
Notes To Editors
About APDO
APDO, the UK’s membership Association for Decluttering and Organising Professionals, sets standards, provides professional development and supports the growth of the industry. Its members offer practical, sympathetic help to organise homes and workplaces.
If you would like to find a Professional Organiser in your area, see www.apdo.co.uk
Devoting their time at the donate a day for TNMOC were Board Members:
Katherine Blacker (President) www.sortmyspace.co.uk
Liz Aitken (Head of Projects) www.carefullysorted.com
Lisa Pantling (Head of Membership) www.clutterfl.co.uk
and APDO members:
Jenny Hart www.allsortedbyjenny.co.uk
Anjli Gheewala www.thinkingpartnerandcoach.com/getorganised
Georgiana Kilinke www.lifespace.london
Louise Simpson www.louisesimpsoncoaching.co.uk
About The National Museum of Computing
Now fully open Tuesdays to Sundays, 10.30 am to 5.00 pm.
The National Museum of Computing, located on Bletchley Park in Block H, one of England’s ‘irreplaceable places’, is an independent charity housing the world's largest collection of functional historic computers, including reconstructions of the wartime code-breaking Colossus and the Bombe, and the WITCH, the world's oldest working digital computer. The Museum enables visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through the large systems and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and the rise of personal computing in the 1980s and beyond.
The Museum runs a highly successful Learning Programme for schools and colleges and promotes introductions to computer coding amongst young people to inspire the next generation of computer scientists and engineers.
Sponsors of the Museum have included Bletchley Park Science and Innovation Centre, Fujitsu, InsightSoftware.com, Paessler AG, Sophos, Issured, Lenovo, Bloomberg, Ocado Technology, Ceravision, CreateOnline, 4Links, Google UK, IBM, NPL, HP Labs and BCS.
For more information, see www.tnmoc.org and follow @tnmoc on Twitter and The National Museum of Computing on Facebook.
Media contact
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