NLHF Project Support

Audience Development, Activity and Interpretation Planning for NLHF bids

We have extensive experience of the development of NLHF bids at EOI, development and delivery application phase for a wide variety of organisations. The majority of projects involve working on the following elements:

• Facilitating workshops, creative planning and development with client teams and partners.
• Detailed consultation and formative evaluation with internal and external stakeholders and audiences through interviews, focus groups, surveys and participatory events and activity.
• Audience research, market assessments and audience development planning ensuring projects meet the needs of audiences and show a clear route through from consultation to end project design.
• Programme development and planning across a broad range of activity areas including volunteering, formal and informal learning opportunities, training and interpretation. Ensuring an inclusive and accessible programme is developed.
• Supporting interpretative planning including the development of interpretation principles, key messages, objectives and potential media ensuring the needs of audiences are met. This may include writing Interpretation Plans or contributing to the development of Interpretation and Exhibition Strategies developed by others.
• Development of evaluation logic models, clear qualitative and quantitative measures of success and evaluation frameworks.
• Development of relevant policies and practice infrastructure such as volunteer, intern or safeguarding policies.
• Project management planning and staffing structures including the development of job descriptions and volunteer role descriptions
• Identifying and developing partnership opportunities for project delivery and drawing together full appendices.
• Developing detailed budgets for all activity and writing fully compliant Activity Plans. 

Recent successful delivery phase applications for the NLHF have included:

• Poole Museum – grant award of £2.24 million
• Ragged School Museum – grant award of £4.2 million
• National Portrait Gallery - grant award of £9.5 million.
• Petersfield Museum – grant award of £1.3 million.
• Royal Museums Greenwich – grant award of £7.4 million (fast track acquisition).
• Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich – grant award of £2.8 million.