FUNDING AGREEMENT: DELIVERY PLAN

ENGLISH HERITAGE FUNDING AGREEMENT: DELIVERY PLAN - Annex A

This delivery plan takes as its starting point English Heritage's strategic aims and objectives for the next five years as set out in Making the Past Part of our Future. The Strategy is underpinned by a comprehensive set of activities and targets which will be used to prioritise the organisation's resources over the period 2005-10. This delivery plan highlights only the most critical activities for the period of this Funding Agreement and those which make a major contribution to Government objectives.

Aim 5: Stimulate and harness enthusiasm for England's historic environment

Strategic Objectives

A. Increase public awareness of the historic environment

B. Broaden access to the historic environment and engagement with diverse communities

C. Stimulate access, interest and enjoyment through the sites and collections in our care

Primary activities

Outcomes/

deliverables

Performance measures/ targets

Progress against measures/targets

19 Increase visits from priority groups to EH sites

20 Support the rest of the historic environment sector to increase visits from priority groups to historic sites

21 Support DCMS participation survey

Contribute to DCMS PSA3 target to increase the take-up of cultural events and sporting opportunities by adults and young people aged 16 and above from priority groups (defined as people aged 16 or above with a physical or mental disability, from black or minority ethnic groups, or people in socio-economic categories C2, D and E), by increasing the number visiting designated historic environment sites by 3% by 2008

Advice through the Defra Access Forum and provision of heritage data

Deliver a minimum of 20 outreach projects per year which engage a minimum of 30,000 people from DCMS priority groups per year (5B3)

Deliver a minimum of 8 Heritage Open Days outreach projects per year aimed at broadening participation in the scheme, in partnership with the Civic Trust (5B7)

Performance measure is DCMS participation survey (5B2)

2004/5 - 38 Outreach projects, 54,386 people engaged

2005/6 - 53 Outreach projects, 46,751 people engaged

2006/7 - 44 Outreach projects to be delivered; the number of people engaged will not be calculated until after the year end but is estimated to be between 45,000-55,000.

All Outreach projects target people from DCMS priority groups through grass roots community groups. Therefore the figures above relate only to people who meet the PSA3 target.

2004/05 - 18 HODs Outreach projects

2005/06 - 25 HODs Outreach projects

2006/07 - 32 HODs Outreach projects

The Outreach team has developed the Heritage Open Days scheme in new areas amongst communities who have not previously participated, including in Milton Keynes, Easington and Blythe, and coastal Cumbria. Work has also focused on increasing the diversity of properties that participate, for example, 5 multi-faith trails developed in Wolverhampton, Leicester, Ipswich, Manchester and Bradford.

English Heritage also supported the sector to meet the PSA3 target through delivery of the `Your Place or Mine? Engaging New Audiences with Heritage' conference held in November. 350 policy makers and practitioners participated in debates and practical workshops to increase their skills and capacity as well as influence strategy with regards to engaging hard-to-reach communities with heritage. An ongoing website continues to support the sector.

English Heritage has paid the second instalment of its contribution to the survey (£80,000). The survey is also supported by attending project meetings, clearing publications and publicising its existence. EH uses its results in its publications and to inform policy, and liaises with DCMS and partners on the content of the survey and future plans for questions, analysis and publications.

EH Funding Agreement Progress Against Targets Nov 06