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Free mentoring & training available for English heritage organisations
Melanie May | 20 October 2020 | News
Free training and mentoring for English heritage organisations seeking to increase their resilience and funding is available through Heritage Compass – the National Lottery Heritage Fund Business Support Programme.
Applications are now open for the two-year programme, which will help 150 small or medium-sized heritage organisations (including local museums, parks, landscapes, places of worship and heritage buildings) future proof their business model.
The training will include:
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- Business planning income generation and finance
- Stakeholder and audience development
- setting goals for heritage and social impact
- Governance
Heritage Compass – the National Lottery Heritage Fund Business Support Programme is delivered by Cause4, in partnership with Creative United and the Arts Marketing Association, and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Applications are accepted throughout autumn with two deadlines in November and December.
- Free support available for heritage sector individuals & organisations (23 July 2021)
- Foundation commits £29mn to heritage skills training in largest ever pledge to cause (10 August 2023)
- SITA Trust offers £250,000 to three organisations (29 July 2007)
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About Melanie May
Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.