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And Now the End is Near

 It is time to draw to a close the adventure that has been Culture Syndicates. We will cease operations in September 2024, after almost 15 years of activity and 10 years as a social enterprise. We were still employing apprentices and heritage assistants right up to the end. We have given experience to countless young people looking to make a start in the heritage world and supported countless museums and other heritage clients over the years. I hope someone picks up this baton and has the vision to take on this idea as a sustainable way of giving real experience to young people that neither a university course or simple volunteering can ever do.  Totally independent of funding, or major institutional support the company grew and had its best year in 2019, working nationally and even internationally, even beginning to support international graduates in their ambitions.  Unfortunately the pandemic was the event from which we never fully recovered despite the generous suppor...