Deadline: 24-Nov-20
The Heritage Fund is inviting organisations to apply for Business Support Funding for Wales, to deliver a programme of training and development to support heritage organisations.
The programme will help organisations develop their business skills and achieve a better representation of people in heritage – for example through encouraging people with certain protected characteristics and/or on low incomes to participate in heritage.
The training and development programme should aim to provide business support to develop more resilient and forward-looking organisations working in heritage, with:
- More organisations with the skills and capacity to diversify their income, develop their supporters, volunteers and audiences, respond to new opportunities and withstand threats;
- Stronger networks among peer organisations in heritage across Wales.
The Fund believes:
- Everyone in the UK has a stake in heritage;
- Everyone should have the opportunity to benefit from National Lottery funding, regardless of age, class, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender, income or sexuality;
- Heritage that is more inclusive will be more sustainable;
- As a funder, they should demonstrate leadership to achieve higher levels of inclusion in heritage, which is key to a flourishing, more equitable society.
Funding Information
- The Fund expects to fund one programme in Wales with a maximum grant of £250,000.
Target Beneficiaries
The funded programme will need to engage participants from across Wales, with a particular emphasis on plans to recruit participants from the current Areas of Focus in Wales – Neath Port Talbot and Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Target Participants
Target participants should be:
- Small and medium-sized organisations working in heritage;
- Organisations new to working in heritage (eg asset transfer recipients, or community groups championing intangible heritage).
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply if you are:
- A not-for-profit organisation;
- A partnership led by a not-for-profit organisation.
- Organisations or partnerships looking to apply should also meet the following criteria:
- Demonstrable track record in delivering creative and successful business support programmes with organisations in the heritage sector or with organisations with some similar characteristics to heritage SMEs;
- Capacity to support organisations across Wales;
- Demonstrable understanding of the needs and challenges of smaller organisations in the heritage sector;
- Demonstrable commitment to learning and evaluation of what works;
- Demonstrable commitment to diversity and inclusion;
- Operational and financial capacity to deliver a programme at this scale.
Evaluation Criteria
- Applicants should allocate some budget for evaluation within the programme budget and we will work with the successful applicant on their evaluation framework.
- The evaluation approach will need to include collecting data and tracking progress of participants in these programmes across a range of measures over time, for example:
- Organisations having measurably different funding mixes and business models;
- Organisations having more valuable and exploitable physical, intangible and financial assets (including but not limited to reserves);
- Improved performance in key areas such as governance;
- Increased capacity and resources;
- Developed organisational behaviours and cultures which are known to support resilience.
For more information, visit https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/business-support-funding-wales
