The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) seeks view from people and organisatons ‘with a direct interest in the area of cultural heritage protection, expertise in the field or both’ on the new Cultural Protection Fund to be established in the first part of 2016 to help address recovery from acts of cultural destruction overseas, with workshops in advance of a closing date of 19 February.
DCMS writes:
The Government announced at the end of 2015 that a new Cultural Protection Fund would be established in the first part of 2016 to help address recovery from acts of cultural destruction overseas. We would like to invite you to contribute to a consultation on the new Fund which runs from 14 January to 19 February 2016.
Government Proposals to Protect Cultural Heritage Overseas sets out our vision on how the Fund will operate and the areas it will support. We welcome your views on our approach as well as more technical matters concerning scope. Your views will help inform the government’s design and delivery of the Fund.
This consultation is aimed at individuals and organisations with a direct interest in the area of cultural heritage protection, expertise in the field or both. Should you know of someone else who you believe would also like to take part in the consultation, please pass on their details to us and we will get in touch with them so they can respond to the consultation should they wish to.
We will be running a series of stakeholder workshops in late January and into February as we are keen to hear views on and informally discuss some of the questions raised in the consultation document.
Workshops
If you would be interested in attending a workshop please email Carla Piper atculturalprotectionfund@culture.gov.uk as soon as possible and we will contact you with further details. It would also be helpful to know what your particular area of interest in the consultation is and where your expertise lies so we can tailor the events to those wishing to attend.
To respond
To read and respond to this consultation as pdf (please contact DCMS) or and online form (recommended)…
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