{"id":14699,"date":"2017-01-18T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14699"},"modified":"2017-01-18T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:16:34","slug":"10-million-contributed-to-local-economies-during-englands-2016-heritage-open-days-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14699","title":{"rendered":"\u00a310 million contributed to local economies during England\u2019s 2016 Heritage Open Days festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Heritage Open Days (HODs) 2016 Impact Report shows the huge numbers of people that explored England\u2019s heritage for free in September 2016 \u2013 with an estimated 3 million visitors attending 5293 events.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The weekend of 8-11 September 2016 saw the 22nd Annual Heritage Open Days festival. The theme of the events was \u2018Treasure your treasures\u2019 with a focus on local heritage. The report\u2019s findings include:<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Increased numbers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a record high of 5293 events<\/li>\n<li>put on by an extraordinary 2073 local organisers<\/li>\n<li>coordinating over 40,000 volunteers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Connecting communities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>75% of visitors said HODs made them feel more part of their local community<\/li>\n<li>76% of volunteers said HODs made them feel more pride in their local area\/heritage<\/li>\n<li>estimated \u00a310 million contributed to local economies over the festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cultural gateway<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40% of visitors had not visited a heritage site in the past 12 months<\/li>\n<li>80% of visitors were inspired to visit more in future<\/li>\n<li>86% of visitors agreed that they are visiting because it is important to support local heritage<\/li>\n<li>51% of organisers at sites that are open to the public on other occasions reported seeing a more diverse audience attending.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritageopendays.org.uk\/news-desk\/news\/hods-headlines-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritageopendays.org.uk\/uploads\/_document-library\/HOD_Impact_Report_Nov2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Open Days (HODs) 2016 Impact Report shows the huge numbers of people that explored England\u2019s heritage for free in September 2016 \u2013 with an estimated 3 million visitors attending 5293 events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14700,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions\/14700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}