South Gloucestershire Heritage Partnership Meeting
The theme for the last meeting on the 13th October at Emersons Green Village hall was local heritage and public engagement. The talks featured ways in which local town, parish and area councils and heritage organisations can engage the public with their local heritage and was an opportunity to hear about examples of good practice and network. The talks ranged from a national perspective to the local and covered: Industrial Heritage Support Networks; Know You Place; Bath and Bristol Cultural Destination Project campaigns and events; Page Park: How to develop and deliver a project with community involvement; Whitfield Tabernacle: how public consultation can inform the development of a heritage project; Kingswood Heritage Museum: recent public engagement projects; Thornbury Heritage Trails, a community project.
The 38 people that attended gave a very good feedback and comments are as follows: ‘Enjoyed the day and learnt a lot, speakers were excellent.’; ‘Networking is always valuable. Meeting, understanding and sharing experiences is most beneficial.’; ‘I’ve enjoyed this session and the social media one. I love the opportunity to talk to others in the voluntary sector, I would like to be stimulated by similar sessions in the future.’