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Hi Alice We run the Museum of Walking for which some of our work is devising guided tours. Jaquie & Richard have eloquently explained the advantages in working with tour guides - they may have considerably more reach to a far wider audience than yourselves, and bring people to your site that you would have never reached. Just across town, there's the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park - I would really recommend you take a visit there and chat to the Friends group and the managers there, as they have created a marvellous community resource. When we ran the Urban Tree Festival in May, and we had hit an obstacle with the Corporation of London (over allowing a song walk event on Hampstead Heath), THCP came to our rescue (as did Nunhead Cemetery). Kenneth Greenway <[log in to unmask]> is the contact at the Friends group Some local authorities have had to seek to commercialise their park assets, and in doing so, now set a charge for events (which includes guided tours). This is also the case with Royal Parks (for which you also need a license). Royal Parks use this to some extent as a means of vetting tour guide accreditation. The charges are not huge for events of less than 50 people (if the tour is free, then often there is no charge) and proof of Public Liability is also required. Even though the charges are not huge, the admin to process the payment of these charges is also costly and time consuming - LB Lambeth send you a 17 page document to read and complete. Sledgehammer & nut comes to mind. Brighton & Hove City Council, Community Safety team, came up with a wonderful initiative as part of an effort to combat Anti-social behaviour in their cemeteries - it was called Mortiquarian and is a geo-located web-based app that tells the stories of some of the incumbents. It has drawn large numbers of visitors (deterring the ASBers) and proven popular. Simon Bannister is the man to seek out at B&H Council. Good luck in your efforts - best, Andrew On 5 Jul 2018, at 15:07, Alice Mayers wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question and wonder if anyone can help! > > I have recently started working in a cemetery that is run by a charity. It is open to the public and free to enter. However, at the moment, the site is pretty much unknown and fairly uninviting. It is really only visited by mourners, very occasionally a private tour guide will bring a group around the site. We will shortly (well in the autumn we hope) be able to offer our own guided tours. Colleagues are concerned that the private tour guides are making a profit from our site and as a charity we should be asking for a fee or donation. > > Has anyone had this situation and what did/ do you do? > > Thanks for any advice/ help etc! > > Best > Alice > > Alice Mayers > Programme Manager > House of Life Project > Willesden Jewish Cemetery > > 020 8343 6217 > > > > <118070515075301155.png> > > The United Synagogue is an authentic, inclusive and modern community built upon Jewish living, learning and caring. > > Registered Charity No. 242552 > This message is intended only for the use of the person to whom it is addressed. It may contain information, which is privileged and confidential. Accordingly any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any of its content by any person other than the Intended Recipient may constitute a breach of civil or criminal law and is strictly prohibited. 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