Digital fundraising has become an increasingly important part of a charity’s fundraising strategy, with online donations becoming more popular, as many industrial heritage sites are well aware. Charity Digital explores some of the key factors that make digital giving apps on smartphones (‘tap-and-go’) useful for charities in 2025 and how they can boost their fundraising. …
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Museum of Cannock Chase Under Threat from Closure in 2025
Cannock Chase Council is proposing the closure of the Museum of Cannock Chase by April 2025, as part of proposed budgets cuts for 2025/2026. The Museum of Cannock Chase first opened in 1989 on the site of the former Valley Pit, a training pit for young coal miners. It covers the history of the Cannock…
Charity Digital Guide to Setting Up a JustGiving Page
Charity Digital have a variety of free resources available online for the charity sector which are relevant to many industrial heritage sites. Since 2000, they have been helping charities and non-profit organsiations unlock maximum impacts through digital tools. With industrial heritage sector finances increasingly strained, their latest support includes a set-by-step guide on how to…
Canal & River Trust Completes Repairs Enabled by Heritage Stimulus Fund
The Canal & River Trust has completed the repairs enabled by the award of c.£1.6m through the Heritage Stimulus Fund, which forms part the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. Administered by Historic England, the works covered 14 projects across the canal network and involved the replacement of lock gates, and lock and bridge repairs, including the…
Advice for (Heritage) Charity Trustees during the COVID-19 Crisis
The Coronavirus crisis has implications for all (heritage) charities as well as their staff, volunteers, and beneficiaries. The NCVO has some very useful advice for Trustees on how to cope with the challenges thrown up by the current situation. This includes the type of questions Trustees need to be asking; prioritising work to help with…
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