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Material Difference A level students bring materials science and physics to life
We are currently looking for trustees with expertise in surveying, conservation or audience development. Join our active group of trustee directors on our mission to safeguard, celebrate and share this unique part of London’s engineering story.
Please take a look around the website — if you like what you see, or would like know more, please get in touch, or even better come and visit us. We hope, like us, you are excited about the potential for the Testing Works to find a new and valuable role in the education of more innovators, like David Kirkaldy, who will help meet the challenges of the future.
Join this incredible effort
The survival of the Testing Works in Bankside is now inspiring the next generation of engineers, innovators and designers. We’re all volunteers. How will you help?
Make your contribution to putting Kirkaldy’s ingenuity and vision back in the spotlight
We are grateful to our partner organisations who help in many different ways
Armourers & Brasiers’ Company Association of Independent Museums Better Bankside Development Partners Dulwich College The Engineering Club Fabrix
There are many ways you can support Kirkaldy’s Testing Works and be a part of this incredible effort. Sponsorship, donations and booking an event or tour for your team, family or friends are just some of the ways you can support the Testing Works. If you have time you can share too, why not find out about becoming a volunteer or help shape our future direction as a trustee.
Volunteer
Do you love machines and engineering, or London's unique places that link directly to its past? Want to make the most of your knowledge and skills, or learn more?
Whether you are passionate about engineering, industrial heritage, social history or contemporary culture, we would love to hear from you. Getting dressed up in overalls is completely optional! Come along to an Open Day and speak to Jane, or email us!
Partner
Our corporate supporters are very important. As partners, you can help us deliver our mission to widen audiences and develop our education programmes — and encourage fresh thinking in our engineers and innovators of the future. If you want to get more involved with a local charity and support a unique place that embodies inventiveness and creativity then get in touch. Our Corporate partnership programme offers companies like yours exclusive benefits and a deeper relationship with Kirkaldy’s Testing Works. For information and to discuss more please email us.
Donate
Individual supporters can become a friend, a patron or leave Kirkaldy’s a gift in your will. To find out more about what we offer you in return for your help please get in touch.
Let’s link up!
Let us know how we can work together
David Kirkaldy’s work is honoured in the Engineering Hall of Fame and featured by ICE, the Institution of Civil Engineers
Kirkaldy’s Testing Works is pleased to be an Affiliate Organisation of The Engineering Club and a member of AIM, the Association of Independent Museums
We are proud to work in partnership with Community Southwark and with local schools including Dulwich College
Corporate volunteers
Whether you work directly in engineering or architecture, or simply want an extraordinary London venue, Kirkaldy’s Testing Works is a great place to bring your team together, and support an independent and very unusual charity.
We can customise your day, so if you want to get your hands dirty then maybe help us clean and present our workshop spaces, redecorate or simply wash the windows, or alternatively why not put your problem-solving powers to the test?
We can offer a mix of hands on tasks and challenges – after all, this is the Testing & Experimenting Works! You can even have an informal celebration afterwards in the main workshop itself and test your team’s new bonding with a Tailor-made Test – destruction-testing your own (suitable) samples on our 19th century Universal Testing Machine. See our Vimeo Channel then get in touch to find out more.
And if your team is still working from home why not get them together at the Testing Works for some virtual volunteering? For more information please email us
