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Heritage Lottery Fund
Oakmere Solutions provides expert advice, associate monitoring and mentoring services to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Current projects include:
Historic Royal Palaces
Oakmere Solutions has been appointed to work with the Historic Royal Palaces on the review and development of their education strategy. Historic Royal Palaces is an independent charity that looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace – palaces owned by HRM The Queen on behalf of the nation. The aim of the Historic Royal Palaces is to help everyone explore the story of how monarchs and people have shaped society, in some of the greatest palaces ever built. The Historic Royal Palace’s education service provides learning visits for schools and colleges, adult learning events and family learning activities, welcoming 194,000 education visitors in 2011. Oakmere Solutions will be working with the HRP team, current service users and other stakeholders over the coming months, producing recommendations for future strategy during autumn 2012.
Hudd Music Hall Archive Project
Oakmere Solutions is providing project leadership and curation and other professional services to this exciting two-year project supported by the HLF and directed by Suffolk New College. The project aims to evaluate, describe and organise a unique cultural heritage archive covering the history of Music Hall and Variety owned by the actor, performer and historian Dr Roy Hudd, with the purpose of bringing it into active public use. The project will employ the archive to create an initial programme of community, educational and performance activities alongside an effective curation plan and options for its future sustainability.
Ipswich Town Football Archive, Ipswich
Oakmere Solutions has been appointed by the ITFC Charitable Trust to undertake project leadership and professional curation services for this new project designed to catalogue the extensive archive available to the Club and use it to promote wide-ranging learning and engagement.
St Nicholas’s Chapel, King’s Lynn
Oakmere Solutions has been appointed by the Churches Conservation Trust to prepare a stage 2 Activity Plan for submission to the HLF and an associated robust and evidenced business plan.
Town Hall, King's Lynn
Oakmere Solutions is acting as a facilitator and providing external professional support to the development of a Heritage Lottery Fund application aimed at significantly enhancing access to the historic Town Hall which dates from 1421, its collection and archive.
Recently Completed Projects
Britten-Pears Foundation, Suffolk
Consultancy leading to the completion of an activity plan for Britten 100, a major project to increase learning about, and participation in, the heritage legacy of Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh. The subsequent proposal to the HLF resulting in a £1.4m grant to mark and celebrate the centenary of Benjamin Britten, and the impact his work had on our national culture and music heritage.
Faith in Maintenance
Oakmere Solutions acted as the external evaluator for this major multi-year project led by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) and funded by the HLF and English Heritage. The project provided training and support for volunteers in England and Wales who help to maintain historic places of worship. FIM won a prestigious Europa Nostra Laureate Award in 2010.
GutterClear
Oakemere Solutions completed market research for the GutterClear project in September 2009. GutterClear is an initiative of the Diocese of Gloucester in collaboration with Maintain our Heritage and provides a service to churches in the Gloucester Diocese.
Heritage Lottery Fund
Since 2009 Oakmere Solutions has undertaken commissions from HLF with the following projects:
IDEA Ltd
Oakmere Solutions provided consultancy and management services to this innovative skills initiative. IDEA Ltd was launched by the Prime Minister in February 2009 and is a joint venture between BT, Cisco, University College London, University of East Anglia, University of Essex, University Campus Suffolk and Suffolk New College. The work of IDEA builds on the strengths of these founding partners to create innovative solutions to skills and training requirements and the promotion of qualificatory success through a skills escalator.
Lincolnshire County Council, Lincolnshire
Oakmere Soultions developed and produced an options appraisal for the organisational management of Lincoln Castle and a five year business plan for the proposed Heritage Skills Centre to be located in the grounds of Lincoln Castle. In addition as a separate consultancy Oakmere Solutions supported the securing of an associated Heritage Lottery Fund Skills for the Future Project.
National Trust of Western Australia
In May 2010 Oakmere Solutions completed a consultancy project for the National Trust of Western Australia supporting its work in establishing a robust methodology for determining the social and economic value of the heritage.
Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, Halifax
Consultancy and business planning resulting in a successful myplace application and £3.8 million funding for the Orangebox young people’s centre in Halifax, Yorkshire.
Dr. Peter Funnell
Peter has over 20 year’s experience of consultancy and project design, leadership and evaluation in both the public and private sectors. He has enjoyed a distinguished academic career most recently as Director of Enterprise and Executive Dean for the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences at University Campus Suffolk. He has published widely and enjoys an international research reputation in the field of technology-supported learning. He has undertaken consultancies across Europe, in Australia and the Middle East alongside two BT research fellowships and a Visiting Fellowship at Murdoch University, Australia. He has considerable experience of business planning and economic development and regenration, and supporting small and micro businesses.
He is President of the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and is the East of England representative on the national advisory committee of the British Chambers of Commerce. He was a member of the Norfolk and Suffolk (New Anglia) Local Enterprise Partnership Transition Board and holds other board positions including Executive Chair of Healthy Ambitions Suffolk, Chair of the Eastern Angles Theatre Company and co-opted member of the Council of the Suffolk Agriculture Association. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
E: peter@oakmeresolutions.co.uk
Dr. Sharon Goddard
Sharon has extensive consultancy experience in the fields of learning and skills, volunteering, interpretation and activity planning, audience development, and project evaluation. Sharon's expertise has been gained through a mix of professional roles, specifically: 15 years teaching and managing in arts and humanities further and higher education; six years as a national policy and research lead on learning, skills and young people issues for the Heritage Lottery Fund; as strategic educational planner and commissioner with the Learning and Skills Council in Norfolk; as East of England regional advisor on 14 – 19 education for the UK Government's Department for Children, Schools and Families; as Deputy Director of Children and Learners at the Government Office for the East of England; and as national advisor within the UK Government's Department for Education on careers guidance.
Sharon is a Trustee and Deputy Chair of GEM, the professional association for heritage educationalists and a Trustee of the Grasslands Trust. In 2009 she completed work with the Council of Europe supporting the implementation of the Faro Convention on the value of the cultural heritage for society including a chapter: "Heritage Partnerships - promoting public involvement and understanding" for Heritage and Beyond (2009): Council of Europe Publishing.
E: sharon@oakmeresolutions.co.uk
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Email Peter: peter@oakmeresolutions.co.uk
Email Sharon: sharon@oakmeresolutions.co.uk
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