Title National Lottery Heritage Fund Place-based collaboration - Anne Jenkins Director, England, Midlands & East

National Lottery Heritage Fund
         Place-based collaboration
                                     Title

Anne Jenkins
Director, England, Midlands & East

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“We will demonstrate
                             how heritage helps people
                               and places to thrive”
                      Key Performance Indicator, Strategic Funding Framework 2019-24.

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Who are we?
                      •   The largest
                          dedicated grant
                          funder of the UK’s
                          heritage

                      •   Awarded over £8bn
                          to more than 44,000
                          UK projects
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Strategic Funding Framework 2019-2024
                      National Lottery Grants for Heritage
                      project outcomes:

                      •   boost the local economy
                      •   create better places to live, work and visit
                      •   encourage skills development and job creation
                      •   support wellbeing
                      •   improve the resilience of organisations working in
                          heritage

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Our approach to place

   •     Investing in places, not just
         projects
   •     Thinking beyond the project
   •     Using targeted programme
         initiatives
   •     Collaborative programmes
   •     Strategic partnerships

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Strategic approach

       •   Place – strategic programmes
            • Great Place Scheme (ACE)
            • Future Parks Accelerator (NT)
            • High Street HAZ cultural
              programme (HE)
       •   Areas of Focus (SFF 2019-24)

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Local Government Research
▪      Prior to COVID-19, local authorities were already operating in a challenging financial climate, with
       significant impacts on their heritage functions. There is a possibility of further spending cuts which
       could come at the expense of heritage and culture.
▪      The pandemic has changed the way that local authorities value heritage. There is now an
       expectation that it can and should deliver against wider policy goals such as:
▪      generating employment, skills, tourism
▪      health and well-being
▪      environmental sustainability
▪      strengthening communities
▪      Heritage has become a central part of recovery planning in many areas.
▪      Local authorities are looking for funders to help them develop a high-level, strategic view of the
       issues they face, both within authority boundaries and across regions across the UK.
    Golant Innovation commissioned by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, 2021. Seventeen interviews conducted in March
       2021 with local authority stakeholders across the UK, supported by desk research.

Working collaboratively
 with local authorities
   • Heritage as part of local recovery
•  • As a catalyst for wider goals
     including employment, wellbeing,
     environment

   • Funding for local strategy
     development, recruitment and
     capacity building.

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Case Studies
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Carrington Street Area
                             Townscape Heritage,
                             Nottingham

• Key entrance point for
  visitors
• £700,000 invested in
  architectural features
• Part of wider Nottingham
  regeneration
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Belong Gallery
                        Newcastle –under-Lyme
                        Heritage Enterprise

• £1.8m of investment
• Not-for-profit and
  private developer
• Transformation into
  multi-purpose space
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Making Waves Together
                           Great Yarmouth and
                            Lowestoft
                           Great Place Scheme

• Collaboration between
  Great Yarmouth
  Borough Council and
  East Suffolk Council
• Putting culture at the
  centre of place making
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Naturally Birmingham
                            Future Parks Accelerator

• Collaboration between
  the Fund, the National
  Trust and MHCLG
• Supporting Council
  strategies on Carbon,
  Health and Urban Design
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Jewellery Quarter,
                        Birmingham

• £1.83m Townscape
  Project
• £1.39m cemetery
  restoration and
  engagement project
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Ways to get in touch
•   https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/

•   https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/what-we-fund

•   England, London & South
•   Email: londonandsouth@heritagefund.org.uk

•   England, Midlands & East
•   Email: MidlandsandEast@heritagefund.org.uk

•   England, North
•   Email: north@heritagefund.org.uk

•   Alternatively, contact our Customer Services Team enquire@heritagefund.org.uk

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Thank you
For more information please get in touch
MidlandsandEast@heritagefund.org.uk

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