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Andy Milne

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Andy Milne Andy Milne was Chief Executive of Scotland’s Regeneration Network for practitioners, policy makers and academics (SURF) from 2003 to 2021. SURF is primarily concerned with shared efforts to tackle the causes and degenerative impacts of poverty …

Mike Benson

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Mike Benson Mike has spent the last 18 years working in heritage as director of four museums championing heritage as a potential force for good. Mike spent the first 28 years of his working life in the steelworks on Teesside before becoming Director of …

Planning for the future

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Planning for the future 30/01/2018 To help us plan for the future, we have been finding out what National Lottery players see as priorities for our funding. Our researchers held workshops with National Lottery players across the UK where participants …

Funding for community asset transfer

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Funding for community asset transfer 24/07/2017 Research examining how National Lottery funding has provided for projects that enable, support or follow a community asset transfer. Research, undertaken by Locality , examining the extent of the funding we …

Economic impact of UK heritage tourism economy

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Economic impact of UK heritage tourism economy 01/08/2016 This is our latest report on the economic impact of heritage-based tourism in the UK. Produced by Oxford Economics, it’s an update on research last published in 2013. The latest figures show that …

Future Parks Accelerator

Parks for Health project Camden and Islington. Credit: Islington Council.

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Future Parks Accelerator Parks for Health project Camden and Islington. Credit: Islington Council. An initiative set up to secure the future of the UK’s urban parks and green spaces. The pioneering programme, Future Parks, was a £14million joint venture …

Investing in heritage for wellbeing

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Investing in heritage for wellbeing Heritage can improve wellbeing for people across the UK and make a significant contribution to the way we feel about our lives. What is wellbeing? We use evidence from the What Works Centre , which describes wellbeing …

Challenge and change, November 2004

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Challenge and change, November 2004 01/11/2004 In 2004 Demos produced a report looking at the ‘cultural value’ of heritage. The authors distinguished between the intrinsic, instrumental and institutional impacts of heritage, and recommended that HLF …

Resilient Heritage evaluation

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Resilient Heritage evaluation 01/10/2018 Projects may include: activities that focus on new responsibility for heritage reviewing current business models and implementing change explore alternative funding streams or reviewing and setting up new …

Heritage and the economy

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Heritage and the economy 11/03/2010 These reports present the results of case studies that look at the economic impacts of tourism that HLF investment has had. They also assess the benefits of project expenditures for local economies, and at the wider …

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