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Why Heritage MattersHeritage

Pathways TORCH27 October 2016

Kate Pugh @kateheritage

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Q1 What was your lightbulb moment?Q2 What is the difference you want to make?

Why Heritage Matters …. to you

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Why heritage matters: Heritage & The Economy 2016

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• Plays an important part in our wellbeing and quality of life – 93% of residents say that local heritage has an impact on their personal quality of life.

• Heritage makes you happy. People who visit heritage sites are happier than those who do not. The Government’s Taking Part survey asked respondents to self-assess their happiness on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is ‘extremely happy’. Between 2010 and 2013, on average, those who had visited a heritage site in the previous 12 months, reported happiness scores 1.6% greater than those who had not.

• Heritage activity (such as visiting, volunteering and heritage membership) is a driving factor for wellbeing. As part of the 2015 Heritage Index research, areas which scored highly on heritage activity also tended to have higher levels of well-being.

Why heritage matters: Heritage & Society 2016

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The four ‘pillars’ of sustainable development from UNESCO’s Hangzhou Declaration 2013:• Economic• Social • Environmental • + Cultural

Why heritage matters: Heritage & Sustainable Development

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Why heritage matters: culture & international standing

Ambition: improve the reputation of the UK

• Improve or maintain the UK’s soft power ranking in terms of culture

• Increase the number of exchanges

• Increase the number of UK cultural exports

• Increase the value of UK cultural exports

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Risk: nationally [Heritage at Risk 2015]

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Risk: demolition/deterioration/degradation/despair

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In• Central Government Departments (DCSM/CLG/BIES), Historic

England/Natural England • Local government in managing their heritage assets and in development

control services • Development industry, property management, home owners• Private and charitable institutions/Heritage Lottery Fund• Supporting the independent heritage movement

As• professional practitioners: planners/surveyors/architects• craftsmen/traditional building/conservators• researchers: science/engineering/psychology/materials/history• technical advisers, policy, communications, management, project

managers, fundraisers, data analysers, in evaluation, digital technology ….• volunteers: contributing brain power as well as muscle power

Heritage Futures: where the decisions are taken

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