image for illustration: Joanna Theobald
Historic England (HE) has launched a new ‘Wellbeing and Heritage Strategy’.
Historic England writes:
Whether through visiting, volunteering, learning or creative practice, engaging with heritage can strengthen confidence, resilience, hope and social connections. We can all benefit from the quality of the place we inhabit, especially if its historic environment is cared for and its historic green spaces are accessible.
The purpose of this strategy is to improve our own delivery, enhance the social impact of our programmes, highlight inequities that heritage can challenge, and communicate the value of heritage. We want the outcomes to be about enhanced individual and community wellbeing and levelling up inequalities. There is not a single end point at which we have ‘achieved’ wellbeing, but this strategy marks the beginning of an ongoing commitment to develop new partnerships and approaches to the nuanced and dynamic concept of wellbeing.
