{"id":27806,"date":"2020-09-29T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27806"},"modified":"2020-09-28T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:44:10","slug":"historic-royal-palaces-opens-consultation-on-shedding-145-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27806","title":{"rendered":"Historic Royal Palaces opens consultation on shedding 145 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"More than 140 jobs are at risk at Historic Royal Palaces, which has started consulting on redundancies after predicting a 90% loss of income.<\/h3>\n

image: By Michael Coppins – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=94298389<\/em><\/h6>\n

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….expects to see annual income fall from \u00a3110m to just \u00a310m…<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Civil Society News writes:<\/p>\n

The charity, which looks after six royal sites including Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London, said in a statement yesterday that it expects to see annual income fall from \u00a3110m to just \u00a310m because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The statement said that, as a result,\u00a0HRP has \u201cno choice but to take measures to reduce our costs\u201d. The charity depends entirely on fundraising income.<\/p>\n

Impact of lockdown<\/h2>\n

The charity was forced to close all six palaces during lockdown\u00a0until the\u00a0early summer, and has been impacted by substantial falls in international tourism.<\/p>\n

HRP also said that it expected to run out of reserves by the beginning of 2021. The charity\u2019s reserves were \u00a35m at the end of March 2019, according to the latest accounts filed with the Charity Commission.<\/p>\n

The charity\u2019s statement said: \u201cWe expect our recovery to take several years, and that means we must plan to live within half our usual income.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no choice but to take measures to reduce our costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wide use of furlough scheme<\/h2>\n

A spokesperson for the charity said that jobs at risk of redundancy included roles in public engagement department and in front of house work.<\/p>\n

They also told Civil Society News that 85% of staff at HRP were placed on furlough until the sites began to re-open in June and July.<\/p>\n

In addition to using the furlough scheme, the charity said that it has already frozen recruitment, ended seasonal contracts, and made \u201csubstantial adjustments\u201d to pay and pensions. Some staff have already taken up voluntary redundancy.<\/p>\n

The charity said: \u201cThe restructuring proposals include a reduction of 86 full-time equivalent [roles] out of the full complement of 1,165 (this equates to 145 roles potentially at risk of redundancy), plus other changes to terms and conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinal decisions will be made once the 45-day consultation is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Barnes, the chief executive of HRP, said: \u201cAt every stage of this crisis, we have tried to limit the impact of the financial challenges on our staff, who care passionately about the palaces and our work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are to continue this work, we must act now to reduce payroll costs and make the charity financially sustainable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are privileged to be the guardians of six remarkable places, but the dedicated team who care for them are the spirit of our charity, and we are deeply sad that it has come to this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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More than 140 jobs are at risk at Historic Royal Palaces, which has started consulting on redundancies after predicting a 90% loss of income. image: By Michael Coppins – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=94298389<\/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-27806","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\/27806","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=27806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27808,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions\/27808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}