Hi all, last call for this at 12.30 today – hope you can join us! JM

 

 

Hello all, we have our next HLF Online Community live chat this Thursday, 12.30pm; we’ll be talking about how to engage young people, but the important deviation from the norm is that our invited panel is solely made up *of* young people – so we should get a really fresh set of perspectives.

 

Please join us if you can, and contribute to the discussion; also, please spread the word by Tweeting the link etc, and using the #HLFOC hashtag!

 

Thanks & best,

 

John

 

https://www.hlf.org.uk/community/live-chats/engaging-young-people-heritage-thursday-8-february-1230-130pm

Engaging young people in heritage - Thursday 8 February, 12.30-1.30pm

Young people are a key audience for heritage organisations. HLF encourages the projects that we support to engage with 11-24-year-olds through all of our open programmes, as well as through targeted interventions such as Kick the Dust and Young Roots.

However, research tells us that there are still barriers to young people’s participation.

Our landmark 20 Years in 12 Places research highlighted that young people, alongside the unemployed, and black and minority ethnic people, are all still less involved in heritage than people from other groups. Inequality remains one of the key challenges in modern Britain. The good news is that the research also shows that heritage can play a powerful role in bringing people together and helping to improve perceptions of quality of life.

For this month's live chat we're bringing together some of the #DustKickers – our Heritage Ambassadors - an advisory panel of young people from across the UK who support HLF funding decision-making on Kick the Dust, and help inform our wider thinking about the engagement of young people.

On Thursday 8 February please join John McMahon (HLF’s Policy Adviser for Young People), Heritage Ambassadors Hannah Keddie, Laura Hill and George Rutter, and others, to discuss key questions about how to remove barriers to participation, and make heritage feel relevant to young people. 

Tune in from 12.30-1.30pm to discover more, ask us any questions you might have, or share your own experiences.