The IHBC’s heritage business listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members a weekly ‘News and Tender Alert’ listing, this week with costed opportunities worth more than £132,000, while the IHBC Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers features a call from the National Archives for a supplier to lead on establishing ‘charitable body to pursue major funding opportunities’, though only HESPR members have been notified before the opportunity closed on 22 September.
IHBC Chair James Caird said: ‘Our weekly Bulletin of current tender notifications to HESPR members is an innovative service that supports commercial conservation businesses that work to the IHBC’s standards and expectations. These weekly selections offer the wider heritage world a regular insight into the conservation profession that we hope combine good news, sector profile and service inspiration all in one.’
Top tender pick of the week:
The IHBC Director’s picks from the HESPR News and Tender Alert for this week is a call from the National Archives for a supplier to lead on establishing a ‘charitable body to pursue major funding opportunities’. The call, now closed, noted that ‘the supplier will be expected to help identify and recruit trustees for the charity, and to advise and mentor TNA in fundraising activities with strategic advice and support, to include: developing a campaign plan; identifying and recruiting trustees for the newly formed charitable body; compiling lists of high net worth individual prospects, and beginning the cultivation process as appropriate; training and mentoring trustees and staff in fundraising best practice, including the development of a cultivation programme and carrying out additional research into potential grant-making sources’.
For more on HESPR and how to become a HESPR member see hespr.ihbc.org.uk
For a free promotion of your tendering opportunities and work needs to the IHBC’s HESPR members, please send details and links to Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk, as soon as possible.
Tenders can also be advertised for a fee with IHBC Jobs etc, including a targeted email to 1600+ recipients as well as full coverage on our Newsblog alerts and social platforms (membership and followers c.14,000) and websites with 250,000 visits a month. Contact Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk
