Culture Syndicates CIC

   18th March 2021  In  News And Opportunities Culture Syndicates has an exciting opportunity for a web designer to create our new website. The redesign project will involve the design, development and hosting of the website and post-launch maintenance and support. This project is kindly supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s  Culture Recovery Fund . The project brief can be found here:  Web Design Brief . Culture Syndicates CIC is a social enterprise which was established in 2014. We support cultural organisations to promote and widen access to their collections for audiences locally, nationally and internationally through sustainable partnership working. At the heart of our work is a commitment to building employability for emerging professionals in the heritage sector in order to develop an appropriately skilled and diverse workforce that is equipped to meet the needs of a changing sector. Our mission is twofold: Enabling culture: We supp...

   15th March 2021  In  News And Opportunities The team at Culture Syndicates bring a wide range of strengths, interests and experiences to their role. In the second of this blog series about our team, Natasha explains what drives her work at CS.  What was your background before joining Culture Syndicates? I came to Culture Syndicates almost four years ago now. I joined as a Heritage Assistant, having completed an undergraduate degree in History. History was my passion and I was particularly interested in overseas expansion during the Early Modern period. Because of my love for History, I was interested in a career in museums but had little clue as to how difficult it was to break into the sector. Although I had been volunteering at some local cultural organisations, I was struggling to support this activity financially and was glad to find some paid work that I could enjoy and that would help me get that all-important experience. Before working at Culture Syndi...

   1st March 2021  In  News And Opportunities The team at Culture Syndicates bring a wide range of strengths, interest and experiences to their role. We are introducing this new series of interview blog posts to help you get to know the team and what drives their work. The first interview in the series is with Feixue Huangdu, Digital Projects Officer. What was your background before joining Culture Syndicates? I am from a city of 2.2m people called Huaibei in Anhui Province in the heart of China. I trained as a journalist in Tianjin and moved to Beijing to begin my professional career. I established myself as an on-line programme host interviewing people from government, business and the arts and went on to host prestigious charity events. I even finished in the top ten of the Chinese Miss World competition. This being a Chinese version of the competition, I actually sold products and developed crafts to help a disability charity and gave speeches about the need to s...