Heritage and Wellbeing: Understanding, Valuing and Capturing the Benefits 1

The significance of wellbeing has never been more widely discussed and these two webinars will explore the relationship between heritage and wellbeing.  For professionals and communities alike, this is an important factor in how we draw up policy, consider investment, and connect people and places.

 One of two webinars looking at:

• The demonstrable links between wellbeing and heritage
• Heritage and wellbeing research into experiences during the pandemic
• How to value wellbeing in line with the Treasury’s Green Book Appraisals
• Assessing increases in wellbeing for Heritage Action Zones (HAZ) and other types of regeneration projects
• What Heritage Open Days mean for wellbeing
• Policy-making with wellbeing centre-stage
• The innovative Thriving Cities Index and what other places can learn from it, and
• The evidence available to underpin the wellbeing-heritage relationship.

Speakers on Thursday 2nd December 2021:

• Welcome, Louise Thomas, HTVF Director
• Introduction, Chair, Christina Duckett, HTVF Vice-Chair and Principal Conservation Officer, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
• Wellbeing Guidance for Appraisals, Allan Little, Head of Economic Appraisal, Department for Education, & Jack Philips, Economic Advisor at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
• The Links between Wellbeing and Heritage, Linda Monckton, Head of Wellbeing and Inclusion, Historic England
• Places of Joy, The Role of Heritage After Lockdown, Professor Joanna Sofaer, University of Southampton
• Making the Connection: Building and Assessing the relationship between Place and Wellbeing in Sunderland’s Heritage Action Zone, Maxine Houston and Holly Nelson, ERS Newcastle

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