Create Place Heritage & Digital

The Co-Creation and Placemaking Programme for Heritage and Cultural Leaders

CREATE PLACE Heritage & Digital is a place-oriented leadership development initiative focussing on advancing leadership. The programme will involve executive-leadership training, roundtable challenges and 1:1 coaching to develop knowledge and provide new skills. It will cover a range of topics, including intangible heritage at risk, working with heritage trusts, digital skills, 100-year planning, strategic partnership work, heritage business models, tools for participatory governance, inclusion and access, executive coaching and participation in shaping buildings, stories, and intangibles.

There is a recognised need for leadership support at the mid- to senior level, made more urgent in North Staffordshire by the necessity of Heritage conservation for the post-industrial, historically valuable built fabric of the place, tightly connected to its surrounding communities. The importance and potential of Stoke-on-Trent’s heritage has been recognised by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, which is targeting investment into the city over the next 10 years to boost the local economy and inspire pride in place.

Focussing on heritage and digital, the CREATE PLACE Leadership programme will work with existing consortium networks, local authorities, higher education institutions and regional heritage and culture organisations to address the need for well-supported and trained cultural leaders for our historically rich places and communities.

We will continue this impactful growing network of leadership fellows, and will support the regional heritage leadership talent in achieving impact for our regional heritage assets. We are so delighted to have received a grant from the The National Lottery Heritage Fund to achieve these aims.

Is this leadership programme for you?

  • Are you passionate about your region and how heritage sites and organisations can transform the lives of those communities around you?
  • Are you leading heritage or cultural activities and have more than 2 years of experience?
  • Are you part of a heritage organisation, a history and heritage society, a heritage trust, or aspiring to shift your cultural or creative work into one that draws more deeply from the rich history of the place?
  • Do you feel heritage is a driver for placemaking and digital tools might help you have more impact in your heritage work?
  • Are you working in the library or heritage sector with aspirations to lead on projects involving history, arts and digital?

If any of the above fit your career aspirations and visions for your place, this programme might be for you.

This programme is free for successful applicants, thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund. 

Head to https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/createplace/how-to-apply/ for more information on how to apply!