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We’re delighted to share that we’ve been successful in a major funding application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund to support our Defining a Decade: A 10-year masterplan for Sheffield Museums project.
Sheffield Museums has received an award of £206,500 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to National Lottery players, that will support the £241,500 project set to commence in October.
The Defining a Decade project will refine and focus our ambition to become a progressive, resilient and sustainable organisation, rooted in Sheffield. It will see Sheffield Museums build on its success to date, and continuing to enrich life in the city, connect people with their heritage and create welcoming and inspiring museum experiences for everyone.
Key outputs include the development of:
- A holistic organisational and estate masterplan
- Agile and realistic delivery plans
- A 5-year business plan.
Defining a Decade will see us prioritise activity across capital project planning, income generation, creative programming, collections development, measuring impact and identifying and mitigating risk. The project will invest in our teams’ skills and capacity, and nurture an adaptive, collaborative organisation that makes a sustainable contribution to Sheffield and the communities we serve.
Ahead of the project commencing, recruitment for a Defining a Decade Project Officer post will begin later this month.
We’ll look forward to sharing more as the project gets underway. Details on the Project Officer role will made available through our Jobs page in the coming weeks.
About The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is the largest funder for the UK’s heritage. Using money raised by National Lottery players we support projects that connect people and communities to heritage. Our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future. From historic buildings, our industrial legacy and the natural environment, to collections, traditions, stories and more. Heritage can be anything from the past that people value and want to pass on to future generations. We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to the past.
