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Stanmer Park Restoration Project
Reviving and Celebrating the Heritage of the Stanmer Estate
Stanmer Park is Brighton & Hove’s largest park: grade 2 registered with an historic 18th century landscape. Physical restoration works will focus on the overall environment, the walled garden and nursery and conservation of ancient monuments and archaeological features that have become neglected.
This evaluation, commissioned by Brighton & Hove City Council, will measure the difference this Restoration Project is making to people, heritage and communities during the transformational improvements across the site made possible by a NHLF grant.
Working with the project team throughout the four year work-plan, the evaluation will help understand what goes well and what the main challenges of the project are and findings will inform the project legacy and future planning for similar heritage initiatives. With Anna Cullum
Melas Partnership: Nutkhut
Major UK Melas, including Manchester, Birmingham, London, Newcastle, Southampton have formed a partnership led by Ajay Chhabra of Nutkhut. This partnership has three interconnected strands of development - artistic, professional and audience focused. It aims to transform the traditional format of Melas through new high quality artistic contemporary work rooted in South Asian heritage to provide audiences with new experiences. We provide consultancy and programme support, including an advocacy document and support in drafting the successful bid to Arts Council England Strategic Touring. With Mel Larsen
St Albans Museum + Gallery
A Celebration of St Albans’ Routes into History
National Lottery Heritage Fund investment has enabled the transformation of St Albans Museum + Gallery into a community and cultural centre at the heart of this English cathedral city.
This evaluation looks at the changes made by the Museum Service as the result of the investment, the impacts of these changes on visitors and stakeholders and the different dimensions of the projects’ achievements. It also reviews the organisation’s ambition to make a difference to place and people and how the Heritage Fund project has created new opportunities for the Museum + Gallery to do so. With Anna Cullum
Whitehall Historic House: restoration and re-imaging
Whitehall Historic House is a rare survivor of domestic architecture, in the top 5% of significant buildings in the country. An Heritage Lottery Fund grant has enabled the refurbishment and restoration of this original Tudor timber-framed structure dating from the reign of Henry VIII, with extensions from the Stuart and Victorian periods. Visitors are now offered insights into the past with greater physical access to the building than previously possible; new interpretation of the 500 years of people and stories that give the building its unique character and new uses of the building as an asset to the local community. Our evaluation assesses the impacts and project outcomes for HLF. (With Anna Cullum)
Fulham Palace
Fulham Palace Evaluation of Activity Plan HLF
Fulham Palace Trust (FPT) has a vision to ‘engage people and provide an insight, through the stories of the Bishops of London, into over 1,300 years of English History'. They are achieving this through a HLF funded restoration project and an engaging activity plan which targets local people, students, schools and families and involves an expanded volunteer team fulfilling varied roles. Pam Jarvis and Anna Cullum work closely with the Fulham Palace - from the archaeologist to the bricklaying intern, project volunteers and contractors to thoroughly understand the impact of the project, through reflective sessions and observations and through formative testing of interpretative outputs to enable the project to be revised in response to visitor feedback
Performing Places, Bexleyheath
A Place for Everyone
Performing Places is one of the four strands of the DCLG funded ‘A Place for Everyone’. It aims to tackle perceived and actual tensions and clashes between the public on Bexleyheath Broadway: a difficult situation which impacts negatively on the Bexley business environment. A model devised by Professor Sally Mackey, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London to assess the effectiveness of resolving these tensions through cultural interventions is now being tested. London Borough of Bexley commissioned research to inform the development of the model through assessing its impacts on different target participants. (With Mel Larsen & Sarah Bedell)