The University of Leeds wishes to appoint an experienced Activity Planner to research, develop and write the Activity Plan which will be a key component of a stage 2 Heritage Grant application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Dialect and Heritage: The State of the Nation project. 

We have allocated up to £25,000 (excluding VAT) to support activity planning consultancy in the development phase. Consultancy should be completed by August 2018. Deadline for applications is 23rd February and interviews are expected to take place in Leeds on 9th March.

About the Project
This project is based on a partnership between the University of Leeds School of English, Special Collections, and five museums: 

•	Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
•	Dales Countryside Museum
•	Museum of East Anglian Life
•	Ryedale Folk Museum
•	Weald and Downland Living Museum. 

The project will digitise and make available, meaningful and relevant to public audiences the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture (LAVC) - a unique and nationally important, but currently inaccessible, dialect and vernacular culture archive. The project will marry the resources with the five partner museums’ complementary and contemporaneous artefact collections, putting the LAVC back into the communities from which it was originally collected and where it truly belongs, reuniting tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and breathing new life into museum displays, local heritage, and the archive. 

This project, with its geographic spread across England, will help to reconnect a national vernacular cultural heritage, the pieces of which are currently scattered. This project offers valuable opportunities for public engagement and learning, enhancement of partner museums’ collections and knowledge-base, and rewarding volunteering roles alongside large-scale bona-fide academic research – the latter to be shared with public audiences during the lifetime of the project and beyond. 

Public engagement activities with a lasting legacy will enable visitors to uncover their own cultural heritage and that of others, to learn more about their dialect inheritance, and to share their stories, memories and linguistic heritage for the benefit of current and future generations. Project activities will be sensitive to museum partners’ local needs, opportunities and priorities. They will help the museums target desired audiences and to meet their strategic objectives.

Scope of Work
The successful Consultant will produce a detailed Activity Plan for submission with a stage 2 funding application to the HLF. This will include:

•	A detailed Activity Plan, including strategies for Audience Engagement and Development, Learning and Participation, Volunteer Training and Engagement, and Interpretation. Consultation with stakeholders on draft Activity Plan.
•	A fully-costed, 3-year Action Plan for delivering the Activity Plan in the format stipulated by the HLF.
•	A strategy and framework for evaluation of the outcomes of the project.
•	Sustainability plans for project activities, including how they can be developed after the project.


Brief

For full details of the consultant brief contact Joanne Fitton, Head of Special Collections & Galleries, University of Leeds
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Tel: 0113 343 6178

Applications to tender should be directed to Joanne Fitton by 23rd February 2018. (Interviews will take place in Leeds on 9th March)

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Fiona Douglas, the Project Lead ([log in to unmask]).

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