From vision to fundraising and getting the best from new working practices.
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Your guide to operating with confidence in 2022...
Follow our eight-part guide in January and February for the essentials of surviving and thriving in the current climate.
Since early in the pandemic, the Rebuilding Heritage programme has worked with some of the most insightful people in the heritage sector - from leaders navigating change to experienced consultants who get results - to offer vital advice to heritage organisations. Once our live programme ended in the autumn, we worked to distill the learning points from dozens of hours of webinars into a series of articles capturing the essentials. We will be sharing these over the next few weeks.
Planning practically - and addressing wellbeing
Whether you are wondering how to fundraise, embrace organisational change, navigate new working practices, or deal with crisis with confidence, we have crucial advice, toolkits and simple templates to help structure your thinking.
We also offer insights into how heritage staff and leaders have managed their wellbeing, while facing some of the most stressful events of their careeers.
Sit tight as these drop into your inbox over the next few weeks - with everything also stored on the refreshed resources page on the Rebuilding Heritage website.
As we will
show, although the pandemic has been the central fact shaping heritage organisations for nearly two years, it has often just accelerated existing workplace trends. Whether we finally shake free from Covid-19 this spring, or need to cope with further disruption - we believe this advice will remain relevant to your future planning.
What's the point of you? - vision and mission
“Visioning isn’t something that an elite few in an institution do”
In our first pieces we go right back to the basics of vision and mission, and why getting these right is worth doing, and will help your decision making in good times and bad.
- What's the Point of You? Clarifying Your Vision and Mission
- Case Study: Barnsley Museums
Drawing from advice from business advisor James West, and the practical experience of Dr John Tanner creating a new museum for Barnsley, they describe how many organisations write 'word salads' in place of a real vision and mission - and how you can avoid this and other traps.
At Barnsley Museums, an extensive public consultation on vision and mission helped define what kind of place the town's brand new museum should be, shaped its programme and collecting policy - and a decade later, helped it create an award-winning programme as the pandemic took hold.
Read more here - with tips along the way for clear and creative thinking, to identify what's unique and important about your organisation.
Join the Heritage Chat – Make Your Voice Heard!
Join us on Twitter on the 18th January, 1-2pm, for the first
#HeritageChat of the year. We’ll be discussing ‘The Role of Innovation in Building the Resilience of Heritage Organisations.’
Everyone is welcome to participate and share their thoughts on our question series (which can be found here). The chat will be led by @HeritageChat - follow us at @Heritage_RH to take part.
We’ll also be taking part, revealing some of our findings from the project. We look forward to seeing you there and hearing your perspective!
Contact us
RebuildingHeritage@theheritagealliance.org.uk
0333 023 0797 (Mon-Thurs)
Follow us on Twitter at @Heritage_RH
Rebuilding Heritage is a free support programme, coordinated by the Heritage Alliance and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to help the heritage sector respond to the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
