What else we do

Audience Development

NLHF Project Coordination

Audience Development

'It's not enough to save something - you've got to make it live.' Buildings and collections only have meaning through the people who enjoy them, learn from them and engage with them.

Our audience development work starts with the questions: Who do you want to reach, why do those audiences matter to you, and most importantly, why should you matter to them? We believe that good audience engagement needs clear thinking about how and where you can make the biggest impact, and evidence to support that thinking.

Activity Planning

NLHF Project Coordination

Audience Development

A strong Activity Plan is central deliverable for any National Heritage Lottery Funded project - it sets out your vision for audience engagement, and a practical action plan for how you will achieve it.

The Plan must demonstrate your vision and your voice, but it helps to have external expertise to shape and articulate it - and that's where we come in - as facilitators, authors and/or mentors.

NLHF Project Coordination

Making an application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund is a project in itself. A lot of behind-the-scenes work needs to happen to inform a really good application and ensure your project design is strong from the outset.

We can help with project enquiries, R1 and R2 applications, and coordination of your Development Phase. We also offer mentoring and peer review services for all stages of the process.

What else we know about

Project Management

Anna's experience as capital project manager for Cragg Management Services allowed her to oversee projects as varied as Lincoln Cathedral Connected, Charleston Centenary Project and Upminster Windmill. Anna's experience of delivering capital projects has informed her evaluation practice. Associates include architects and project managers, who can add value where needed.

Business Planning

Project Management

Anna has a background in commercial management, including five years running the highly successful portfolio of shops at Tate Modern. This experience has informed more recent business planning work for galleries and heritage sites, as well as evaluation of organisational resilience and financial impact.

example projects

Trinity Theatre

Bloomsbury at Berwick Church

Disability Pride

Trinity is a vibrant independent theatre and art centre in the heart of Tunbridge Wells. We were excited to work with the team on the concept of a community led production, to which all elements of the Activity Plan would speak - drawing out what heritage means to local people and how they can respond creatively to their local heritage.

Disability Pride

Bloomsbury at Berwick Church

Disability Pride

Disability Pride provides a platform where disabled and non disabled people can come together and celebrate inclusion and diversity whilst also raising awareness of disability discrimination. Anna has helped the committee deliver a volunteer scheme funded by the People's Health Trust, which encourages collective control and stronger social connections.

Bloomsbury at Berwick Church

Berwick Church features murals of international significance, which were in urgent need of restoration. Anna oversaw the development phase of the project, working with conservation architects and environmental specialists, and coordinated the successful NLHF Round 1 funding application, Activity Plan and Interpretation Plan. She was later appointed to evaluate the project

What they said...

Brighton and Hove Council (Madeira Terrace)

Anna and Wendy helped us put together a solid brief and associated Tender material which helped us appoint an exceptional design team for the Madeira Terrace project. Their knowledge and experience of briefing, process, long term consequences of early procurement decisions, and sector knowledge was invaluable. They added value to the process by acting as critical friends and we enjoyed a trusting and open working relationship. Successful projects are built on the sum of their parts, Wendy and Anna were key early stage ‘parts’

Abigail Hone, Project Manager

Disability Pride

Brighton and Hove Council (Madeira Terrace)

Anna's professional expertise has been invaluable to us in helping us progress our project. She has always been polite, unflappable, conscientious, competent and completely understanding of the needs of the disabled people with whom we work. I would have no hesitation in recommending her.

Every organisation needs an Anna!

Jenny Skelton, Chair, Disability Pride

Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum

Brighton and Hove Council (Madeira Terrace)

Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum

Work by Anna has been delivered to a high standard... Her consultation has been thorough and delivery of workshops with the team has been extremely innovative and engaging. The client team are very pleased with the range of activities emerging from her consultation and engagement work and are excited by the potential for the future of the project. Furthermore, Anna has worked with the team to ensure that the proposed activity plan is realistic and deliverable.

Neil Eccles, Heritage Project Officer, Rochdale Development Agency

Clients and Projects

My Primary School is at the Museum

My Primary School is at the Museum (MPSM) is an existing, trialled and developing programme that places primary, nursery and pre-school children into museums, galleries and botanic garden settings for up to 11 weeks at a time, where they have received full time, fully cross-curricular education. Find out more here

Activity Planning for NLHF

My Primary School is at the Museum

Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
Bloomsbury at Berwick Church
Horton Chapel Arts and Heritage Centre
Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
The Story Museum, Oxford

Community Engagement

My Primary School is at the Museum

Community Engagement

Crawley Museum (audience research)
Disability Pride Brighton (support work)
No Holds Barred, inclusive/differently abled activities (mentoring)

Project Management

Community Engagement

Bloomsbury at Berwick, Berwick Church (Project Management to RIBA 3, and coordination of NLHF R2 bid)
Lincoln Cathedral (Project Management to RIBA 4, Business Planning and Procurement)
Charleston Centenary Project (New build gallery and conservation of historic barns)
The Garden Museum (new build extension and installation of mezzanine within historic building)

Business Planning

Project Management

Business Planning

Hoxton Church (Business Plan)
The Garden Museum, Benton End (Business Plan)
Watts Gallery and Artists' Village (Review of Trading Activities)
Lincoln Cathedral (Business Planning, Retail Review)

Other

Project Management

Business Planning

Madeira Terrace, Brighton and Hove City Council - procurement of design team
Sussex Archaeological Society - procurement of EPOS and CRM Systems
Riverside Studios Archive (Management and Maintenance Plan)
Horton Chapel Arts and Heritage Centre, Epsom (Conservation Plan, Management and Maintenance Plan)