Funding available to innovative organisations that can help us support digital development in the heritage sector.
The Heritage Fund are now seeking organisations to help deliver for the sector.
Funding is divided into three pots:
Answering the sector's top digital questions
Grants of up to £250,000 from a total pot of £550,000 are open to organisations across the UK that can research and answer the heritage sector’s 100 most pressing and frequently asked digital questions.
Answers will take a variety of engaging forms, including ‘how to’ videos and short online courses.
The questions have been split up into five thematic areas, and the Heritage Fund are inviting bids into each:
- Finding, creating and sharing digital content
- Online and mobile community development
- Digital engagement and activities
- Digital leadership and organisational development
- Business models and recovery planning
Digital innovation and enterprise
£250,000 is available to organisations or consortia in England that can provide training and support for digital innovation and enterprise.
Heritage organisations will face a challenging future as they emerge from the initial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. This project will provide the tools they need to make effective use of digital within strategic and operational planning.
Building collaborative communities
Grants of up to £120,000 from a pot of £600,000 are available to organisations based in England that can support the development of open, collaborative and networked communities of practice.
Organisations will act as thematic hubs, anchoring networks of expertise around specific heritage topics. Broad or narrow, they could be a specific place, period of time, community, culture and/or specialist area, but they must be something that a range of heritage organisations are passionate about.
The hubs will embed the development of technical skills and organisational collaboration across the sector.
Application deadlines
Project Enquiry Forms must be submitted by 13 November 2020
Full applications must be submitted by 15 January 2021
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