# Giving to Heritage training programme to run for a further year

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/03/24/giving-heritage-training-programme-run-year/
- Published: 2016-03-24T11:06:45+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Heritage Lottery Fund has agreed to extend the Giving to Heritage training
programme for a further year with a grant of £250,000.**

The programme, part of the [Heritage Lottery Fund](http://www.hlf.org.uk/)‘s Catalyst
Umbrella programme, was established to support heritage, museums and local community
groups across the UK to improve skills and confidence in applying for private, corporate
and community sources of funds.

It is delivered by the **Heritage Alliance**, the largest coalition of heritage 
interests in England, in partnership with the **Institute of Fundraising**.

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It its first two years its training has been used by over 1,100 heritage staff and
volunteers from nearly 600 different organisations. Successes attributed to the 
courses include major sums raised from new approaches to donors.

The new fundraising training will begin in April 2016 consisting of workshops, webinars,
coaching and other training events across England for both experienced and inexperienced
fundraisers. A new series of subjects will be included, covering how to apply for
social investment funds and how to set up a community shares project.

 

> Giving to Heritage extended to Aug 2017! New HLF grant awarded. [https://t.co/M0bsqtBIJU](https://t.co/M0bsqtBIJU)
> for news of new content soon [pic.twitter.com/yAedR5p1On](https://t.co/yAedR5p1On)
> — Giving to Heritage (@Givingtoheritag) [March 23, 2016](https://twitter.com/Givingtoheritag/status/712643776750174208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

Loyd Grossman, CBE, FSA, Chairman of [The Heritage Alliance](http://www.theheritagealliance.org.uk/)
said:

> “Giving to Heritage has been the largest project The Heritage Alliance has managed
> to date and it has been an overwhelming success, bringing new confidence and new
> funds to the independent heritage sector. Never has the need to search for private
> sources of funds been more important, and Giving to Heritage has been delivering
> the much-needed training to develop the skills the sector has been asking for.
> I am delighted that the HLF has allowed us to continue to deliver this exciting
> programme, in partnership with the Institute of Fundraising”.

 

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