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.
Contacting us
The team in Development and Partnership is currently working from home and we aim to provide our normal service, as far as possible. If you need to contact us please do this by e-mail communityempowerment@hes.scot and we will reply as soon as possible.
Key sources of support
For most organisations and community groups your main concerns will be around the health and wellbeing of your staff, volunteers and visitors, as well as how to respond and mitigate the impacts on your operations. Whilst a wide range of support has been put in place to help you, we appreciate that this can sometimes feel overwhelming. We would recommend that you use the SCVO Third Sector Information to stay up to date and register for their bulletin. The hub includes information on funding, human resources, governance and access to further information on a range of programmes of support.
In relation to specific support for heritage the following may be of interest;
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund is running a £50m Heritage Emergency Fund for heritage organisations across the UK.
- 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.
- Charities, community groups, social enterprises and voluntary organisations working in Scotland may be eligible for grants or loans from the Third Sector Resilience Fund.
- 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
- The Scottish Community Heritage Alliance is providing an online forum, a regular blog and a briefing to support community heritage group
- If you are responsible for an independent accredited museum, you may be eligible for Museums and Galleries Scotland’s Urgent Response COVID-19 Fund or Digital Resilience COVID-19 Fund.