Claire Adler

Location

East of England

Specialism

Expert Advisor for National Lottery Heritage Fund
Developing & managing Heritage Fund applications
Researching & writing Heritage Fund Activity Plans
Project managing community engagement projects
Mentor and Critical Friend
Institutional Change Evaluator

About

I work with museums, heritage sites, churches and science centres to engage with their local communities & also with communities to discover and engage with their heritage. This is through the development and delivery of projects ranging from multi-million pound redevelopments to volunteer-led projects.

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Expert Advisor for National Lottery Heritage Fund (Heritage Fund)
I have been on Heritage Fund’s Register for Expert Advisors since 2004. I have worked for the Heritage Fund as a mentor and monitor on over 60 projects with budgets totalling more than £100million. The projects have ranged from mentoring National Maritime Museum through Institutional Change with their recent redisplay to monitoring and mentoring Eighth in the East, a community engagement project about the American Air Force in the East of England in WWII.

Heritage Fund Activity Plans and Applications
On my own, with Julia Holberry Associates and with Anna Salaman I have developed a number of large and small Heritage Fund applications with budgets totalling over £40 million. With Anna Salaman I researched and wrote the Activity Plan for Norfolk Museum Service’s HLF Kick the Dust application that targets young people aged 11 – 25 years old and specifically young people at risk of homelessness and Looked After Children. As part of Julia Holberry Associates I researched and wrote the Heritage Fund Activity Plan for Clare Castle Country Park which is primarily run by volunteers and delivered through partnership.

Headway Cambridgeshire
I worked with Headway Cambridgeshire for five years as their Heritage Mentor helping them to develop and deliver two projects with Heritage Fund funding. The most recent project IMPACT! Brain Injuries and WWI involved supporting the Heritage Research Group, all of whom had acquired brain injuries, to be the project owners. This has included supporting them to research the history of brain injuries and WWI and also commissioning posters from Anglia Ruskin University Illustration Students, a radio show, a film and a publication.

Institutional Change Evaluator for Norfolk Museums Service
With Anna Salaman, we have been appointed for four years as the Institutional Change Evaluators for Norfolk Museums Service’s Heritage Fund, Kick the Dust project. The purpose of our role is to assess how Norfolk Museums Service is changing in response to this funding to make the museums more responsive and inclusive for young people from 12 to 24 years old from diverse backgrounds – from activities all the way through to governance.

Mentor for Wellcome

I am a mentor for Wellcome’s Inspiring Science Fund on the redevelopment of the Dundee Science Centre. Working closely with the Senior Management Team to ensure that the interpretation and community engagement were delivered to the highest quality; and resulting in a science centre that is becoming central to their local community.

Huguenot Museum
I managed the development and delivery of the Huguenot Museum, including feeding into the audience research for the Round 1 bid and then project managing the Round 2 HLF bid, writing the Business Plan, and ultimately setting up the museum.

Hackney Museum
As part of a team of four people I set up Hackney Museum, which opened in 2002. The Museum is held up as an exemplar for a museum embedded in its local community. Since leaving the museum in 2004 I have returned as a Critical Friend for a number of projects including their Olympics project `Mapping the Change’.