We are delighted to announce that Caroline Dinenage MP, the new Minister of State for Digital and Culture, will be speaking at this year’s Heritage Day. She will be giving a keynote speech at the event, alongside Sir Laurie Magnus, Chair of Historic England. Questions for the …
Budget 2021: Our Summary
The Heritage Alliance has produced a summary of the 2021 Budget for heritage. Our Budget Summary 2021 incudes details on Arts, Culture and Heritage Funding and support available to businesses, as well as other funds that are relevant to the heritage and cultural sector. Download …
Heritage Day 2021 and AGM – Change of Dates
As we have entered this new lockdown, we are seeing the effects on our sector, including further furloughing, and staff of our member organisations having stretched capacity with home-schooling, isolating and the need to create forward business planning to reopen. We have, therefore, made the decision to …
The new website of the Historic Environment Forum is live!
The Historic Environment Forum launched their new website. You can find information on the Forum and their members, and it showcases current and past activities, driven by the recently developed ‘Strategic Framework for Collaborative Action’. It includes also the outputs of the programme Heritage 2020, which concluded in …
Heritage Heroes – Applications Are In
Thank you to all those who nominated your Heritage Heroes for 2020. We received a record number of applications this year and our judging panel met last week to shortlist the winners. Watch this space in the coming weeks as we announce the finalists. The winner will …
Alliance Members: Book onto this year’s AGM!
Members of The Heritage Alliance will have received an invitation to this year’s virtual AGM in their inboxes this week. Our AGM will be happening on 11 February and is happening separately from Heritage Day this year. Heritage Day will be taking place over the mornings of 24th and …
Priorities for the Sector
We recently shared Backing the Bedrock, outlining five fiscal and funding priorities for the heritage sector ahead of the Spending Review. Individual organisations also set out priorities for specific parts of the sector, such as the National Trust [Alliance member] with their Six asks of the Government’s …
The H Factor
The Heritage Alliance’s ‘Heritage, Health and Wellbeing’ report was featured in a blog by Heritage Open Days [Alliance member], highlighting the benfits the Heritage can deliver – the H factor! You can read the blog, which also highlights two RSA reports, h
Welcome to the Alliance!
We are delighted to announce that Naomi Korn Associates has joined as the newest member of the Heritage Alliance! Naomi Korn Associates is one of the UK’s leading specialists in copyright, data protection, Intellectual Property Rights and licensing. Naomi Korn Associates supports the heritage and arts sectors in …
#HeritageChat
November’s twitter Heritage Chat was devoted to ‘Overlap between natural and cultural environment’, and was led in collaboration with Natural England. The topic was suggested by Ian Marshman (ALGAO, Alliance member). Participants enthusiastically discussed important topics such as the joined protection of historic and natural environment, …
Heritage Digital
Read on to find out what’s coming up on our National Lottery Heritage Fund supported Heritage Digital project. For regular updates on this programme, sign up to the project mailing list by clicking here. • #HeritageDigitalNow recordings The project is gradually releasing recordings from the popular …
Rebuilding Heritage – New Support Announcement
Applications are now open for the next round of free support from the Rebuilding Heritage programme. Heritage organisations and businesses can apply for 121 support in business planning, fundraising, and communications and marketing, and for a place on group training in leadership and in managing staff wellbeing. …