Heritage Business Planning
In the words of the Japenese proverb ‘he who can see three days ahead will be rich for three thousand years’.
We have worked on business plans for tourism attractions, hotels, self catering businesses and conference centres. In recent times many of these business plans have been part of options appraisals for historic buildings, In fact we have worked on 4 Scheduled Ancient Monuments and a huge number of listed buildings. What we bring to the process is a pragmatic, market driven attitude which helps the client achieve a plan which is realistic, believable and defensible.
Our specialism is in writing business plans to support National Lottery Heritage Fund applications. In total our applications have supported grants totalling around £40M from NLHF alone. Our recent projects include Hopetown Darlington where our business plan and NLHF application helped secure over £3M funding support from the heritage lottery fund and £10M from the combined authority. We them went on to secure £1M from NLHF and Arts Council to support the bicentenary festival for the Stockton to Darlington Railway.
In many cases our business plans have opened up new income generating opportunities on behalf of our clients enabling them to improve organisational resilience.
Sometimes what you need is another perspective.