How to engage grassroots communities and build local relevance using digital technologies
Are you looking for innovative ways to collaborate with partners and volunteers to enhance your organisation’s capacity and the quality of your initiatives? Are you curious about the potential of digital tools and platforms to assist in achieving your goals?
Over the past two years, The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) has supported 25 digital projects as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage initiative. The funding has helped projects innovate how they work with volunteers and with digital and community partners, to better meet organisational goals. The NLHF is hosting two free webinars in September to hear from these projects, who will share practical insights, advice and takeaways. They will help unpack and demystify “digital” approaches and the tools they used for working with volunteers and partners.
Thursday 28 Sept 10am-12noon (on Zoom)
How to engage grassroots communities and build local relevance using digital technologies
In this webinar you will hear about:
- the benefits of working digitally to connect more deeply with grassroots communities and ensure content and programming is relevant to their needs and interests
- common challenges when collaborating with partners and volunteers digitally to improve interpretation and grow public engagement
- how to get started with the right digital tools and platforms when collaborating with volunteers and partners
The first webinar, on Thursday 21 September, is How to work with partners and volunteers to improve capacity and quality of heritage data collection and interpretation.
The webinars are for anyone working in small to medium sized organisations, working with heritage. In particular, it will be useful for:
- those working to engage grassroots communities or people living locally to their venue
• people wanting to deliver community-led digital programmes
• those developing heritage related content or public programming - people establishing or leading volunteer initiatives or teams
Sessions include speakers from a wide range of organisations including Wikimedia, Portland Museum, Glasgow Women’s Library, Museum of London Archeology, Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Nerve Centre, VocalEyes, Royal Horticultural Society, University of Exeter, and Butterfly Conservation
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