Digital Skills for Heritage

Digital Skills for Heritage is designed to raise digital skills and confidence across the whole UK heritage sector.

More than ever, heritage organisations are looking to develop their use of digital technology. Our Digital Skills for Heritage initiative, launched in February 2020, is designed to help them thrive.

We are offering a range of activities and resources to reflect the varying needs, locations, sizes and levels of digital experience of heritage organisations.

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Digital Heritage Lab

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This free programme is managed by the Arts Marketing Association in partnership with Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy, One Further and The Collections Trust. Activities are designed for small and medium UK heritage organisations seeking to develop their digital capabilities.

Online workshops, training events and digital bootcamps will run up to spring 2021.

Heritage Digital

Heritage Digital is a digital skills programme led by The Heritage Alliance and supported by Media Trust, Charity Digital and Naomi Korn Associates. This programme offers training, masterclasses and resources focusing on marketing, engaging audiences, intellectual property, data protection and online business tools and processes.

Running until July 2021, Heritage Digital will support over 700 heritage organisations.

Leading the Sector course

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Culture24’s Leading the Sector is a professional development course in Digital Leadership. A cohort of 16 leaders from medium-to-large heritage organisations across the UK are taking part.

Digital guides

We have produced free digital guides to help heritage organisations get started in key digital areas:

Discover more digital resources, useful information and updates below:

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News

Digital skills projects will support resilience and creativity in heritage sector

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made digital skills more necessary than ever before. Over the last 12 months, The National Lottery Heritage Fund has been raising digital skills and confidence across the UK heritage sector through our National Lottery funded Digital Skills for Heritage

18/03/2021

Publications

Digital guidance for projects

The National Lottery Heritage Fund digital requirements apply to all projects.

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Publications

DASH report: learning from the first UK-wide digital in heritage survey

The Digital Attitudes and Skills for Heritage (DASH) survey report offers vital insight into how heritage leaders can support their staff, trustees and volunteers.

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Blogs

Making heritage websites accessible to all

When producing our new guide to online accessibility, Alistair McNaught’s research identified how heritage organisations can make their online content open to all. He tells us more.

06/08/2020

Blogs

Developing digital leadership in heritage

Anra Kennedy reports back from Leading the Sector – our digital skills development course for heritage leaders.

09/09/2020

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Podcasts: how the heritage sector is embracing the trend

Podcasts are on the rise. As well as engaging audiences who cannot physically visit a site, they can be a great way to continue delivering a project.

25/03/2021

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Free virtual backgrounds show off England's stunning heritage

Free images of some of England's most beautiful venues are available to use as backdrops to video-calls as part of the government’s #HereforCulture campaign.

25/02/2021

Publications

Digital guide: working with open licences

This guide is designed to help heritage organisations meet The National Lottery Heritage Fund's open licencing requirement.

Projects

Collecting stories of life in Worcester

Worcester Life Stories are building an online platform for recording and sharing local stories.

06/01/2020

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News

Mapping Scotland's accused witches through Open Data

This Halloween, we discover how Open Data helped connect the public to some of history’s most misrepresented women.

27/10/2020

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Organisations sought to deliver digital skills projects

Funding available to innovative organisations that can help us support digital development in the heritage sector.

22/10/2020

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Digital Skills for Heritage Tranche 7 funding: Connected Heritage

Funding is available for organisations and partnerships that can work with open and collaborative communities of practice to deliver heritage resources.

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Digital Skills for Heritage Tranche 2 funding: Taking Digital Forward

Funding is available to organisations or partnerships that can offer digital skills development focused on innovation, enterprise and business planning to small heritage organisations.

Stories

Advice: Understanding our licence requirement

At The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we are committed to ensuring the greatest possible public, social and economic benefit from the work we fund. Today (16 September) we are updating our licencing requirements to better support that. Use of digital technologies to create opportunities to connect

Blogs

Digital Skills for Heritage receives funding boost

£1million Government funding for digital skills initiative will enable us to further support the heritage sector's recovery. Our Head of Digital Policy, Josie Fraser, explains.

13/08/2020