I am currently the Project Evaluator for several projects. I’m lucky to be working to evaluate projects funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund at two lovely rural Suffolk Churches, St Margaret in Somerton and St Lawrence in Great Waldingfield as well as joining the team at St Andrew in Soham to continue their great work with the community on their Development Phase Project ‘Building Skills for the Future’.
I recently completed the evaluation of ‘Tending the Future’ a National Lottery heritage Funded project at the lovely St Matthew’s Church in Morley, Derbyshire. The church received a grant to help restore four stained glass windows which were originally in Dale Abbey. Alongside this, an engagement programme worked with local communities, schoolchildren and refugee groups. I used a range of creative techniques to gather responses to the church, countryside and workshops.
Other recent projects include the ‘Peoples of Essex’ A historical and contemporary exploration of migration in Essex, and ‘Open the Box’ Development Phase, an Essex Record office archives outreach and engagement project funded through a Heritage Grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with additional support from The Friends of Historic Essex. I also worked on a Development Phase project for Colchester City Council creating an evaluation plan for their project to transform Holy Trinity Church into a new community hub.
I was previously the evaluator for ‘In the Footsteps of St Felix’ a National Lottery Heritage Fund project running between January 2023 to August 2024 which helped to restore parts of the church of St Andrews in Soham. The project worked with local residents and schoolchildren to celebrate the history of the Town.
Working with Luton Borough Council I evaluated ‘Curating Luton’, a two-year National Lottery Heritage Fund project which aimed to create a partnership infrastructure and robust heritage delivery eco-system, and to co-develop a ‘community-owned’ Heritage Implementation Plan.
I have previously evaluated a wide range of National Lottery Heritage Fund projects
- The Accidental Archivist (Luton Community Arts trust 2024)
- Great Grimsby’s Viking Journey (Heritage Lincolnshire 2023)
- Communicating Connections (Essex record Office) 2022
- Sharing Cultures (Wisbech and Fenland Museum) 2022
- The Venetian Waterways Project (Great Yarmouth Borough Council) 2021
- Breathing new life into St Benedict’s (Heritage Lincolnshire), 2021
- Marriot’s Way Heritage Trail (Norfolk County Council), 2020
- Resorting to the Coast (Essex County Council) 2019
- Mercury Voices (Mercury Theatre 2018)
Other evaluation projects include work for Share Museums East ‘Working with Volunteers’, Norfolk County Councils’ European Funded MONUMENT Project, and projects for the London Transport Museum, the Museum of the Home, the Cultural Development Service for Essex County Council, and Museum Development East Midlands.