West Dean College of Arts and Conservation -Sales Manager

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£32,000 Full or part-time West Dean College of Arts and Conservation is a growing and internationally recognised College with a rich heritage of creativity. A new opportunity exists for an experienced sales person to further develop and manage our sales function.  This is a wide-ranging …

West Dean College: Trust Fundraising Officer

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Full time £25,500 The Edward James Foundation is a charitable educational trust located on the 6,400 acre West Dean Estate in beautiful West Sussex countryside near Chichester, specialising in arts and conservation.  As well as being a respected educational institution, the historic house and collections, …

CIfA: Historic England Training Placements

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Two new professional work placements are available, each for twelve months, under the Historic England specialist work based training programme. The placement holders will be employed by the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) and seconded to Historic England for the duration. Training placement in Landscape …

Soft power today: Measuring the effects

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New research by the Institute for International Cultural Relations at the University of Edinburgh has found that promoting a nation’s culture and political ideals on the global stage brings significant economic and strategic advantages. In a world first, researchers have found that a state’s soft power has …

Tourism Action Plan – One Year On

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DCMS has published an update setting out progress it has made over the last 12 months. Since the Tourism Action Plan was published, the industry has continued to perform excellently. From January to July 2017, there were 23.1 million visits to the UK by overseas residents, an …

Small charities falling behind on digital capability

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The gap between small charities and medium and large charities’ digital capability has increased in the last four years, according to the Lloyds Bank Business Digital Index 2017. Larger charities, those with between ten and 249 employees, scored 48 out of 100 for digital capability but …

Sponsored museums annual performance indicators 2016-17

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DCMS has published performance indicators for DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries in 2016/17. In 2016/17 there were 47.3 million visits to DCMS sponsored museums. This was a decline of 0.8% from 47.7 million in 2015/16. 47% of visits were made by overseas visitors The total self-generated income for …

New arrangements for the Forestry Commission in England

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From April 2019 Scottish Ministers will take on full responsibility for their national forests – meaning the Forestry Commission will remain in England only continuing to protect, improve and expand some of the country’s best-known landscapes, from the Forest of Dean to Northumberland’s Kielder Forest. The …

Achieve greater social purpose through your digital work?

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Culture24, in partnership with the Happy Museum Project, 64 Million Artists and Battersea Arts Centre, is seeking between ten and twenty museums, galleries or heritage organisations to work collaboratively to understand and create digital social purpose. The project is collaboratively funded by the participating organisations …