CALL FOR INTEREST
HMS Beagle Project website development
The HMS Beagle Trust is seeking expressions of interest to redesign and relaunch the main HMS Beagle Project website. The Trust is a wide-ranging educational charity which impacts on diverse audiences. Working to launch a modern rebuild of the ship that carried Charles Darwin around the world on a historic voyage of discovery, we intend to influence global audiences through a combination of public engagement and learning programmes and original scientific research.
“A beacon project for understanding the natural world and for encouraging people to contribute in many different ways to sustainable development.”
Lord Julian Hunt
One of the world’s greatest and most influential scientists, Charles Darwin spent five years aboard HMS Beagle as a young man. The observations he made, samples he collected and conversations and events he experienced sparked the development of his theory of evolution, published in 1851. In older age, Darwin described his time on the Beagle as “by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career”. The HMS Beagle Project wants to inspire and motivate global audiences in a similar fashion. Promoting the curiosity, sense of adventure, humanity and scientific method of Darwin, the Project aspires to a world where everyone understands and appreciates the nature, value and creative adventure of science and is able to participate in evidence-based decision-making to ensure an environmentally secure future.
The Project has strong relationships with a range of organisations, including the British Council, NASA and the National Oceanographic Centre. It has run a successful scientific and educational workshop with partners in Brazil and is hosting a major follow-up meeting in Chile later this year.
The current project website (http://www.thebeagleproject.com), blog (http://thebeagleproject.blogspot.com) and twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/beagleproject) are regularly viewed by scientists, educators and representatives from partner organisations in the UK, Europe, USA, Brazil, Chile, Australia and South-East Asia. As part of a new phase of international activity, allied with a major fundraising initiative, we wish to redevelop the website to offer a credible, professional and flexible ‘shopfront’ that will impress high-profile influencers and donors as well as driving individual donations and offers of non-financial support. The site must also act as a central communication resource for Project members, supporters, partners and press around the world.
The scope of work encompasses:
• Website concept and design (developing an effective, flexible sitemap which enables different audiences to locate relevant content and designing an appropriate, credible and consistent ‘look and feel’)
• Logo concept and design (developing a new Project logo which supports and communicates the Project’s aims and values)
• Website build and launch (in collaboration with Project content developers)
• Hosting and maintenance (as an optional extra)
Interested agencies or individuals are asked to contact [log in to unmask] before 5pm Thursday 3rd March. You should state why you would like to work with the HMS Beagle Project, providing a brief summary of your professional experience and expertise. Information about relevant past projects, especially in relation to website concept/design and branding/logo development, would also be of interest.
Successful applicants will be invited to submit a formal tender for the work. A fuller brief will be made available at that stage, with final pitches required by w/c 23rd March.
Many thanks,
Anna Faherty
S t r a t e g i c C o n t e n t
Communicating stuff. Really well.
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