IHBC NewsBlog regular readers may recall the recent announcement on the new round of Skills for the Future grants, HLF are now seeking your input to help shape the scope of the grants scheme, with two events planned in London and online feedback welcomed.
The Heritage Lottery Fund writes:
As you are probably aware, earlier this month our Chair Sir Peter Luff announced that there will be third round of Skills for the Future. Our planning for this new programme is at a very early stage and we will provide more details ahead of the expected launch in 2016.
In order to help shape the scope of the programme we will be consulting with the sector over the next couple of months about the most effective ways to address current skills shortages and needs and to bring new people into the workforce. At the present time we are planning the following activities so we are able to engage the sector and obtain feedback on the future of our funding for heritage skills and type of investment we should be looking to make.
- Wednesday 9 December 2015 – HLF – Holbein Place. 2 – 4pm. Round table
- There are a small number of places available to join us for an afternoon session to hear a summary of our recent Skills for the Future research and have an opportunity to engage in some initial dialogue about the scope of the future programme.
- Tuesday 19 January 2016 – National Council for Voluntary Organisations Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London 11 am – 4pm. Round table
- An in depth session where we would be looking to
- Provide feedback on HLF commissioned research
- Facilitate a consultation exercise exploring some of current thinking around skills development in the heritage sector.
- Discuss mechanisms for sharing information to help future applicants and strategic bodies
- An in depth session where we would be looking to
If you would like to attend either day then please email skills@hlf.org.uk For those that are unable to attend a round table event we will be providing an online survey to enable you to provide comments and give your views. We will be distributing this shortly.
Please also feel free to post in the Skills for the Future section on our online community or Tweet using #SkillsForTheFuture.
DCMS Blog post by Sir Peter Luff
