Heritage and Engagement
Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)
Eventus act as mentors and advisors for the Heritage Lottery Fund. We have successfully mentored professional heritage organisations developing community engagement and community heritage group looking to widen participation. A recent success story, St, Andrew’s Church in Epworth, was awarded over £450K by the HLF towards further restoration work and consolidation of the church as a centre for the community. This is the second successful organisation mentored by Clare McManus, Director of Eventus. Clare is currently acting as mentor and monitor on 2 further HLF projects in Lancashire and Lincolnshire.
Your Weston Park
Weston Park opened its gates to the public in 1875. As Sheffield’s oldest municipal park it has a special place in the city’s heart. Sheffield City Council's Parks & Countryside Department commissioned Eventus to deliver a community heritage project to discover and document memories of the ways in which local people of all ages use Weston Park today.
The information gathered about the park was conveyed in a distinctive, memorable and individual way through a dedicated website and booklet.
Friends of Wincobank Hill
Eventus supported this local ‘friends’ group to develop a systematic approach to heritage collection. It also advised on the design of promotional materials to involve more people in its activities to protect, preserve and improve the environment of Wincobank Hill.
Discovering Beighton
Discovering Beighton was a 1 year HLF funded community heritage project in Beighton, a former mining village in South Yorkshire. The project trained and employed local people as oral history interviewers and transcribers. The ‘history’ of the area became a Beighton website, book and award-winning plasticine animation made by local children. iscovering Beighton was part of ‘Full Circle’, a two and a half year capacity building project that used a creative approch to heritage and the environment. Funded by Objective 1, with additional funding from Arts Council England, the three themes of Full Circle - Discover Beighton (Heritage), Growing Space (Environment) and Time Works (Public Art) - met or exceeded all 17 of the projects targets, generating 5,758 attendances at project activities, 10 temporary jobs for local people, 220 events/workshops/training sessions and over 100 media articles.
