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Following the team’s historic victory at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, England Netball saw a 33% increase in participation, demonstrating the power of strategic marketing to fuel both engagement and growth.
Exploring Financial Resilience through Growth in the Heritage Sector.
This article features case studies of best practice, showing organisations enjoying financial success, despite the challenging economic landscape.
Click below to read about their success and tips for best practice.
Here are some gems of knowledge from North East Family Arts Network (NEFAN) Director, Sallyanne Flemons on how to support and champion audiences for accessible events.
As the world faces the climate crisis head-on, arts, culture, and heritage organisations have an incredible opportunity to lead the charge on sustainability while exploring new ways to secure funding.
As we are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change, arts and heritage organisations across the country are stepping up in inspiring ways to promote environmental sustainability.
In the unique and rich world of heritage, legacy fundraising isn’t just about ensuring financial stability; it’s about preserving our society’s cultural richness.
The landscape of fundraising for heritage is changing rapidly. This, coupled with the impact of the cost-of-living crisis affecting business operations, rising costs of looking after heritage and changing regulatory requirements is putting greater financial pressures on the entire sector.
Stepping into the role of Charity Chair is both an exciting opportunity and a big responsibility. In this blog, we explore some of the key qualities and skills that define a great Chair and help you make a real difference in the role.
Simple ways organisations of all shapes and sizes can champion diverse voices and promote accessibility and inclusion.
Finding the money you need, to do what you do best. From Public Funding to Trusts and Foundations; from Individual Giving to Corporates.
This post explores how digital technologies could assist your heritage organisation, and how you can take the next steps in achieving digital success.
Whilst we often think about who our competitors are, we probably think a little less about them in the context of collaboration.
We’re excited to welcome applications from Heritage Compass participants for our new Strategy Support Programme.
We’re excited to announce the 10 organisations selected for the second round of the Heritage Compass Legacy Strategy Support Programme.
We were overwhelmed by the incredible applications we received for our most recent Heritage Compass Legacy Networks Funding programme.
We are pleased to announce that Heritage Compass Legacy is launching a new financial Benchmarking Dashboard! The new dashboards offer a comprehensive summary of the last six years, including integrated grants data from 360Giving.
Elizabeth Sibbering writes about the experience of Victoria Baths being used as a filming location for Peaky Blinders.
Our evaluators facilitated a workshop at the Heritage Compass Symposium in January 2023, looking at the challenges and opportunities that Heritage Compass participants faced through the course of the programme.
Strategies for Sustainability
The Strategies for Sustainability series aims to help you make better strategic choices in your organisation. There are four Guides to download on different topics.
The first Success Guide focuses on the role of cafés and shops in heritage organisations, often the first step in income generation for those seeking a financially sustainable future.
We believe that the data from these organisations offers helpful insight into growth, sustainability and success. And to help see the bigger picture, we have benchmarked this cohort against a comparison group of similar- sized non-profit organisations also running cafés and shops.
Published: May 2022
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The second Success Guide focuses on grantmakers and grant funding.
Using benchmarking data from heritage organisations alike to those within our Heritage Compass cohorts, the report investigates the place of grants within the heritage economy – from capital to revenue – all with the view to support you in making more strategic choices when it comes to seeking out grants.
Published: February 2023
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The third Success Guide focuses on growth.
This guide specifically addresses how heritage organisations can increase their turnover and expand their reach. It provides benchmarking data from Heritage Compass participants, allowing organizations to compare their income streams to similar-sized counterparts.
Published: May 2023
Updated: May 2024
The fourth Success Guide focuses on lettings and room hires.
This final publication in our Strategies for Sustainability series aims to support you in running a successful heritage organisation. This guide will help you consider whether there is an earned income opportunity for your organisation if you hire out some, or all, of your building by the day, or let out parts on a longer-term basis.
Published: October 2023
Updated: October 2024
Explore Heritage Compass
Explore the case studies written by Kate Rodenhurst and Tamsin Cox at DHA as part of the Heritage Compass evaluation.
Benchmarking is a helpful tool to help improve standards, or to support decision-making.
Since its foundation, Heritage Compass has supported more than 400 participating organisations through training, mentoring, peer learning, access to funding, and a wealth of resources.
Whilst the core Heritage Compass programme has come to an end, as part of Heritage Compass Legacy, we are continuing to support the sector through a range of targeted activities.
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