Culture And Memory

Local to Global 2.0: From a resilient to an adaptive network

This project will consolidate our organisational development - strengthening and implementing the learning we have gathered from previous National Lottery Heritage Fund support for ‘Local to Global’ and moving the National Commission beyond resilience toward a great capacity for adaptation. For the first time, we will explore how six geographic heritage clusters of UNESCO sites can achieve shared goals through collaboration. Devolved decision-making among the UK’s UNESCO Network will be the engine that mobilises cooperative fulfilment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We will join up local knowledge and expertise among our four-nation network to foster place-based approaches that encourage heritage participation at scale. By investing in geographic heritage clusters, we will transform the way UNESCO sites work together and reposition the National Commission as an agent for strategic growth. This project will future-proof our commitment to enabling more people to experience the benefits of the UK’s UNESCO membership.