Culture Syndicates Recieve CRF 2 Funding
Culture Syndicates are excited and grateful to have received an award from the second round of the Culture Recovery Fund. Following a successful application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, we have received support from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to strengthen and innovate the support we offer to sector entrants through our Heritage Assistant model and help UK heritage organisations to reach an international audience through our digital work.
This funding will allow us to carry out essential review and preparation work to reopen and extend our services following the Coronavirus pandemic. Before the pandemic hit, we offered paid training opportunities for sector entrants on live projects in museums and heritage. This workforce development model has successfully seen 31 trainees move into further employment within the sector and a further three move onto further education with a heritage focus. Unfortunately, the pandemic meant that this work could no longer be carried out. We are therefore able to review through this project the support we offer to our trainee team. We are establishing a working group to reinvigorate our support to sector entrants and to upskill six current trainees in doing so.
The funding will also enable our current trainees to support exciting international digital projects that were in development before the pre-pandemic. Our Digital Projects Officer has been establishing strong partnerships with Chinese organisations and audiences to market UK heritage internationally. This fund will allow us to continue this work, for the benefit of a wide range of UK museums and heritage organisations and allow the Digital Projects Officer and Acting Head of Projects to work closely with our current Heritage Assistant trainees to upskill and mentor them in digital and international projects.
We are extremely excited to be carrying out this work over the summer, so do stay posted for further updates on the work from our team!
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