November’s #HeritageChat explored the relationship between the Historic Environment, health and wellbeing, and in particular how the sector can help to address current health and wellbeing concerns. Participants used their insight from past experiences to discuss the issues that the sector will need to collectively overcome in order to do this. People thought that there needs to be better public awareness of the benefits of actively engaging with heritage and that we need to ensure communities throughout the UK have equal access to health and wellbeing programmes. It was concluded that as a sector we must embed wellbeing into institutional thinking, and, in the final stages of the chat, attention was drawn to the need to have meaningful evaluation frameworks to measure the impact of heritage activities on general wellbeing.
You can read the summary here.
Our next Heritage Chat will be on 20th December (13.00-14.00) discussing how we can maximise the impact of collaborative working in the sector. Please add any questions that you’d like to see covered on our GoogleDoc How can we maximize the impact of collaborative working in the historic environment sector? We are collecting ideas until 12th December and will then share the questions that will be used during the chat through @HeritageChat and @Heritage2020.
Find out more about Heritage Chat here.