Outreach Strategy

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In this section, you can download the first national Outreach Strategy 2003-2007, and the second Outreach Strategy which covers the period 2007-2010.

The Outreach Strategy 2003-2007 sets out what outreach means for English Heritage, what role the Outreach Department plays in the organisation, the Department’s objectives for this three year period and the ways we will meet these objectives.

The Outreach Strategy 2007-2010 contains a review of the Outreach Department’s work to date and sets out our priorities for the next three years:

Since 2003, the Outreach team has:

• delivered more than 200 creative, grassroots community projects
  
• engaged approximately 150,000 people from communities who traditionally have not had easy access to heritage: people on low incomes, people from Black and Minority Ethnic communities, young people and disabled people
• enabled communities across the country to celebrate their local heritage through new Heritage Open Days (HODs) projects
• levered in over £1million in funding and sponsorship in kind
• supported the heritage sector to work with communities, especially through delivering the Your Place or Mine? Engaging New Audiences with Heritage conference
• met organisational and governmental targets associated with engaging priority groups.
  

Our basic methodology will not change over the next strategic period 2007-2010. Rather, we will consolidate our previous work, building on what we have learnt over the last three years. This will inform the way outreach and HODs projects are delivered to develop models of good practice which can be used across the country. We will continue to develop community projects with under-represented groups, work towards meeting the Public Service Agreement (PSA3) target and support the sector to broaden access to heritage.

Further to this, over the next three years we have identified five new agendas around which we will focus projects in order to meet English Heritage, heritage sector and governmental priorities:

• Traditional craft skills training
• Audience development to engage more people from under-represented groups with our sites
• Sustainable development
• Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
• Cultural Olympiad for Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012
  

Please download our National Outreach Strategy 2007-2010 as a PDF, [also available as a National Outreach Strategy 2007-2010 Word Doc].

Please download our first Outreach Strategy as a pdf [also available as a Word Doc].

You will need Adobe Acrobat to view the pdf document, if you do not already have this free software, please click here to download it.