We are listening to heritage organisations and community groups to understand how their work is affected and developing plans and approaches to help them to recover.
Contact us to discuss advice and support and share your examples of resilience
The coronavirus pandemic and circumstances are continuingly developing, and community heritage organisations are having to respond, plan, learn and adapt for resilience.
Please get in touch to see if we can help by offering advice and expertise, signposting to resources, networks and groups and to discuss other possible support.
We also want to hear about resilience, innovation and adaption by groups so that we can share this with others.
About the advice:
Our office teams are currently working from home and aim to provide our normal service, as far as possible. At this time communications will be primarily via email and over the phone but we can also take part in digital meetings. Please email developmentandcommunity@hes.scot and we will reply as soon as possible.
Understanding the impacts of Covid-19
We designed an online survey to help understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for the historic environment sector in Scotland.
Read the reportFunding
- Heritage Digital is a new project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund Digital Skills for Heritage funding stream, aiming to increase the amount of free digital skills training and support available to heritage organisations
- Foundation Scotland
- Heritage Funding Directory
- My Funding Central
- Funding Finder, Scotland’s Towns Partnership
- The Fat Beehive Foundation
- In addition to their normal grant programmes focusing on community-led heritage regeneration, Architectural Heritage Fund Scotland may be able to offer additional support to existing and recent grantees who are encountering difficulties as a result of COVID-19
- Visit Social Enterprise Scotland for a guide to new and current funding opportunities
- Museums Galleries Scotland | Small Grants Fund apply for up to £15,000 (or £10,000 for non-accredited museums) towards support for museums to get back on track with activity whilst still dealing with COVID-related financial challenges
Volunteer re-engagement support
Please get in touch through the email above if you would like us to share our own approach and resources for volunteer re-engagement. The following resources and digital meet ups may also be of interest:
- Volunteer Scotland resources provide clear and accurate information that will help volunteers and volunteer involving organisations during the pandemic
- Volunteer redeployment resources created by the Heritage Volunteer Group
Policy and Guidance for the reopening historic properties and visitor attractions
- Our Resumption Operating Standards have been published to provide a resource for the wider heritage sector, and to support and assist other organisations with their own resumption planning
- Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions
- Visit Scotland
Support for culture & heritage that may be of interest
- Digital Heritage Lab, from the Arts Marketing Association
- Third Force News – Culture & Leisure
- The Association of Independent Museums has created a range of organisational recovery support resources
- Arts and Business Scotland have compiled links to a range of other Sources of Advice and Support for the cultural sector
- Built Environment Forum Scotland has compiled an overview of sites offering advice and guidance from across the heritage funding landscape and built environment sector
- Wasps (Workshop & Artists Studio Provision Scotland). Activities support the regeneration of many deprived communities across Scotland. They redevelop redundant, historic buildings into beautiful facilities for artists and charities, attracting jobs and improving the physical appearance of local communities
- The Heritage Trust Network are a membership organisation for community groups & Trusts formed to bring together heritage professionals and enthusiasts tackling our nations’ buildings at risk and can provide support through a peer to peer network