New £1million Funding for Digital Volunteering

New National Lottery funding will boost digital skills in the heritage sector by helping organisations develop digital volunteering opportunities.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s 2020 Digital Attitudes and Skills for Heritage (DASH) survey and report identified an appetite to develop digital skills across the sector, as well as the opportunity for organisations to benefit from ‘at distance’ volunteers.

It found that the sector is calling out for digital innovation to help it move into a more resilient, creative future, and identified an opportunity to create new forms of volunteering to support this.

The £1m National Lottery funding announced today through our Digital Skills for Heritage initiative is in response to this. Heritage organisations and partnerships of all sizes across the UK can apply.

Project Enquiry Forms must be submitted by 12 noon on 16 August 2021 and full applications by 27 September 2021.

For more information or to apply click here.