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Evaluate & eXPAND
An israac Live Project Document
University of Sheffield School of Architecture
Contents
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Foreword
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Evaluate & Expand
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Evaluating your situation
10. Evaluating the need for expansion 12.
Facilitating Change
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An overview of heritage - specific sources
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A brief introduction to the Heritage Lottery Fund
24. An overview of broader sources 26.
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Foreword
This document has been created by students from the Sheffield School of Architecture for use by the Israac Somali Community Association as part of a wider Live Project to investigate the potential future of the organisation and their premises. It intends to provide useful information and relevant information sources with relation to the upkeep and development of the Grade II listed Vestry Hall at 54 Cemetery Road, Sheffield, S11 8FP. The document provides a base level of information on a range of sources, and includes links to the relevant information for each. It is by no means an all-encompassing compilation of the sources that may be available to you, but is intended to provide guidance and direction when the organisation reaches a point at which it needs to evaluate its facilities and, potentially, expand them.
The information provided is relevant and up to date as of 04/11/2016. When addressing the document in the future it is vital to keep in mind that, if a considerable period of time has passed, some of this information may have become outdated.
Live Projects are a pioneering educational initiative at the University of SheďŹƒeld School of Architecture, where Masters students work with community clients in real time, with real budgets, on socially-engaged projects. For more information, please contact: Live Project Enquiries School of Architecture The University of Sheffield Arts Tower Western Bank Sheffield S10 2TN +44 (0)114 222 0399 liveprojects@sheffield.ac.uk
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03. Evaluate & Expand This stage is intended to run alongside, and overlap with, both “Survive & thrive” and “Building a future”. It is informed by “Survive & thrive”, and in turn informs “Building a Future”. Through this stage, the organisation’s situation is evaluated, as is the need for expansion. This document outlines what is required to facilitate this change and points you in the direction of useful resources that could help facilitate this change.
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Survive and Thrive The organisation is sustained by meanwhile uses, as outlined in the previous document
Evaluating your situation
Evaluation is a continual process, and runs parallel to the “Survive & thrive” stage. At “Survive & thrive”, uses are worked around existing built constraints. Eventually, as your needs as an organisation change, these constraints may mean that the facilities no longer meet your needs. This will lead you to evaluate the need for you to expand your facilities.
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Are our facilities meeting our needs as an organisation?
Continue to evaluate as the organisation develops
This can be assesed by using procedures established during the Live Project, such as:
Spatial Mapping Exercises Timetabling Uses Community Consultation
No Our facilities no longer meet our needs
Evaluate the need for you to expand your facilities
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Evaluating the need for expansion
It is key to establish, when evaluating the need for expansion, whether these needs can be met purely by reconfiguring your current uses within the existing spaces. Undergoing an exploratory design process to assess the feasibility of this may provide solutions that are much lower cost and less intrusive than built works. If, after this process, it is apparent that changes to the fabric of the building are required to meet your needs, you are met with the challenge of how to facilitate that change.
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Evaluate the need for you to expand your facilities
Can our facilities be adapted to meet our needs within the spaces currently available?
Consult with stakeholders and design professionals
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We can adapt within our current spaces
The spaces no longer work for us, and change is required
In the instance that internal spaces can be reorganised, without significant works being carried out to the buidling itself, stakeholders should be consulted and work along the design team to reach a workable solution. This situation is an ideal moment to asses the meanwhile uses that have been in place. The successes and challenges of different uses can be evaluated and addressed
In the instance that it becomes apparent that a significant change to the bulding itself will be required to properly accomodate your organisation, it will be important to evaluate the successes and challenges of meanwhile uses, assessing which will be taken forward and how these can be better accomodated within an updated building (as outlined within the ‘Survive & thrive’ document)
Consult with stakeholders and design professionals
Consult with stakeholders and design professionals
How are these changes to be facilitated?
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Facilitating change
In order to move forward with these changes the organisation will require advice, support and funding. There are a wide range of groups that can provide guidance, and the following pages provide an overview of these. These are categorised as: - Heritage sources (specifically related to buildings, landscapes and narratives that are of historical significance) - Broader sources (general sources that can provide guidance for community groups such as your own) - Sheffield-specific sources
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How are these changes to be facilitated?
Seek advice, support and funding
Heritage sources
Broader sources
Sheffield specific sources
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An Overview of Heritage specific Sources
There are two key resources providing advice and support with regards to the maintenence, preservation and redevelopment of historic buildings outlined here. These are Historic England and the Architectural Heritage Fund. Two key heritage funding directories, the Heritage Alliance Funding directory and Funds for Historic Buildings, are then introduced. There are a range of supplementary heritage sources that are then briefly introduced, providing a breadth of resources.
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historic england “Historic England are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. They champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them. They look after the historic environment, providing expert advice, helping people protect and care for it, and helping the public to understand and enjoy it. They do this by: - Championing historic places - Identifying and protecting our heritage - Supporting change - Understanding historic places - Providing expertise at a local level As expert advisor to the government, protecting historic places through the designation system is at the very heart of what Historic England does. Using their knowledge and understanding, they celebrate what England’s history and ensure that it is recognised, respected and enjoyed. Historic England manage the National Heritage List for England: from its origins in 1882, it has grown to include almost 400,000 items ranging from prehistoric monuments to office blocks, battlefields and parks. They all benefit from legal protection. Historic England publishes an extensive range of expert advice to help to care for and protect historic places and our wider heritage, including listed buildings, scheduled monuments, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites. Advice covers subjects such as: - Planning - Energy efficiency - Maintenance and repair - The heritage protection system”
https://www.historicengland.org.uk/advice/
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architectural heritage fund “The AHF is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee, founded in 1976 to promote the conservation and sustainable re-use of historic buildings at risk for the benefit of the public. When a building is listed – and ideally involves a change of ownership and or use – the AHF can help by: - Being involved at the earliest stages of a project to give advice and information. - Working constructively with organisations to identify viable new uses for redundant or under-used buildings. - Providing vital financial assistance in the form of grants and competitive loans. - Putting people in touch with other organisations working in their area. The AHF’s lending resources derive from government grants, donations and accumulated surplus of income over expenditure. AHF grant programmes are financed by interest on loans and bank deposits and grant-aid from Historic England, Historic Environment Scotland, Cadw and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.” We can give advice, grants and loans to help you find new sustainable uses for the historic buildings in your community.”
www.ahfund.org.uk
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Heritage alliance funding directory “Managed by The Heritage Alliance, the Directory is a free, easy to use guide to potential sources of support, financial and otherwise, for anyone seeking to undertake projects related to the heritage of the United Kingdom. As well as detailing sources of grants from trusts and foundations, the Directory also lists organisations offering loan finance, awards, scholarships and other “in kind” resources. If you are specifically searching for funding for work on historic buildings you are recommended to go directly to the Architectural Heritage Fund’s dedicated website for Historic Buildings (FFHB), which also contains helpful advice on applying to funders. This Directory covers wider categories of heritage include historic landscapes, parks and gardens, churchyards and cemeteries, industrial heritage, archives, historic churches, museums, archaeology, environmental, heritage skills and conservation.”
http://www.theheritagealliance.org.uk/fundingdirectory/main/fundinghome. php Funds for Historic buildings “The Funds for Historic Buildings website is a comprehensive guide to funding for anyone seeking to repair, restore or convert for a new use any historic building in the United Kingdom (excluding the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) which is listed, scheduled or in a conservation area and of acknowledged historic merit. It includes details of virtually all substantive funding sources which specialise in historic buildings, as well as many which provide funding for historic building projects within a wider remit.”
www.ffhb.org.uk
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The Victorian society “The Victorian Society is the charity championing Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales. Our Conservation Advisers help local planning authorities and churches to make better decisions about adapting Victorian and Edwardian buildings to the way we live now, while keeping what is special about them. We also seek to engage the public in our campaigns to help increase the likelihood of conserving buildings.”
http://victoriansociety.org.uk/ The Georgian Group “The Georgian Group is the national charity for the preservation of our Georgian heritage. Since we were founded in 1937, we have lobbied for heritage interests, playing a key role in the post-war development of the statutory protection regime for historic buildings and more recently arguing for the removal of VAT on historic buildings repairs. As a statutory consultee in the planning system, we are asked every year to review around 7000 planning applications affecting listed Georgian buildings.”
http://georgiangroup.org.uk/docs/home/ The society for the protection of ancient Buildings “The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings is involved in all aspects of the survival of buildings which are old and interesting. Our principal concern is the nature of their “restoration” or “repair”, because misguided work can be extremely destructive. To us the skill lies in mending them with the minimum loss of fabric and so of romance and authenticity. Old buildings cannot be preserved by making them new. In the architectural context “restoration” means work intended to return an old building to a perfect state. It can be the unnecessary renewal of worn features or the hypothetical reconstruction of whole or missing elements; in either case tidy reproduction is achieved at the expense of genuine but imperfect work.”
http://www.spab.org.uk/ Ancient Monuments Society “The Ancient Monuments Society (AMS) was founded in 1924 ‘for the study and conservation of ancient monuments, historic buildings and fine old craftsmanship’. From our tiny office in the City of London we: - Campaign for historic buildings of all ages and all types as a statutory consultee on listed building consent. - Run a membership scheme with 2,100 members in the UK and abroad. - Publish 3 newsletters and a volume of Transactions each year. - Help save redundant churches in partnership with the Friends of Friendless Churches.”
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A brief Introduction to the Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund uses money from the National Lottery to support a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the UK. For groups and buildings with significant heritage value they are an important organisation to be familiar with.
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What is the heritage lottery fund? “From the archaeology under our feet to the historic parks we love, from precious memories to rare wildlife… we use money raised by National Lottery players to help people across the UK explore, enjoy and protect the heritage they care about.” - The largest dedicated funder of heritage in the UK - The leading advocate for the value of heritage - £7.1billion awarded to over 40,000 projects since 1994 - £430million to invest this year - Offices across the UK - Grants from £3,000” Their Strategy “At HLF we want to make sure the heritage you care about is looked after for the future. People benefit from being involved with the heritage around them, from developing new skills to understanding their local area better. And we want to help whole communities come closer together. In short, we want to make a lasting difference for heritage, people and communities. Under our 2013–2018 strategic framework we’re providing a range of grant programmes that allow us to do just that. Through them we are funding the full breadth of heritage in the UK, investing in skills and growth, and helping heritage organisations to thrive. We are committed to ensuring that all communities across the UK benefit from National Lottery funding and to recognising and responding to local priorities.” What they fund “Heritage is really wide-ranging. We support all kinds of projects, as long as they make a lasting difference for heritage, people and communities. Use our funding to record the diverse stories of your community, breathe new life into a historic park, create vibrant town centres, and much more.” Your HLF Region “Our local committees make decisions on grant requests between £100,000 and £2million and on applications under the Grants for Places of Worship programme. Requests for grants of up to £100,000 are discussed at monthly advisory meetings and a decision made by the Head of the local HLF office. The committees are made up of local people recruited through open advertisement. Committees are supported by grant assessment teams based in the relevant region or country.” “Fiona Spiers is the Head of Heritage Lottery Fund Yorkshire. Gary Verity is Chair of the Yorkshire and the Humber Committee.”
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The first steps “The projects we fund must have a strong heritage focus. They must also make a difference for heritage, people and communities. For a better chance of getting funding, follow the simple steps below: -
Decide on the amount you need – our grants start at £3,000
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Pick the best grant programme for you, based on the grant amount and the heritage you’re focusing on
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Read the application guidance to check you can meet the requirements of the programme you want to apply under
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Take a look at our guidance to help you think about developing your project
Send us a project enquiry. It’s not part of the assessment process, and we’ll give you feedback before you apply. Applying to the Sharing Heritage programme is straightforward and we do not have a project enquiry form for that programme. When you have read the guidance and decided what you want to do you can just go ahead and make your application Check our Online Community – someone else might have answers to your questions, or they may be planning something similar or helpful to you”. Contact
Heritage Lottery Fund - Head Office Tel: 020 7591 6000 Fax: 020 7591 6001 Text phone: 020 7591 6255
Heritage Lottery Fund - Yorkshire and Humber region 4th Floor Carlton Tower 34 St Paul’s Street Leeds LS1 2QB Telephone: 0113 388 8030 Fax: 0113 388 8031 Email: YandHdevelopment@hlf.org.uk
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An Overview of Broader sources
These sources, whilst not heritage - specific, can provide advice, support and potentially be considered as funding sources for community organisations such as your own.
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Community Builders “Community builders aims to make sustainable investments in community enterprises to build their long term financial viability and increase their ability to deliver significant social impact in their communities.”
http://www.communitybuildersfund.org.uk/ The Directory of social change “The Directory of Social Change (DSC) is an independent charity with a vision of an independent voluntary sector at the heart of social change. We achieve this by providing essential information and training to the voluntary sector to enable charities to achieve their mission.”
http://www.trustfunding.org.uk/Default.aspx Funding central “Funding Central is a free website for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises - providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities. They have a wealth of tools and resources to support organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.”
http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk/default.aspx The Key Fund “Our central mission is to provide finance – flexible loans and grant/loan packages – to help community and social enterprises to start-up, become sustainable, or grow. It’s not just about the money. It’s also about providing the right kind of support to help our investees have the best possible chance of success.”
http://thekeyfund.co.uk/ Big Lottery Fund “Every year, we distribute millions of pounds of the National Lottery’s good cause money to community groups and charitable projects around the UK.”
https://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/funding Big Society Capital “Big Society Capital is an independent financial institution with a social mission, set up to help grow social investment in the UK.”
http://www.bigsocietycapital.com/
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An overview of Sheffield specific sources
There are a range of sources local to Sheffield, some of which you are no doubt already away of. Of particular interest is the South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau, an organisation whose services are free to access for charities in South Yorkshire.
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ReNEW Sheffield “ReNew Sheffield exists to encourage growth in meanwhile uses, pop-ups, temporary and entrepreneurial start-ups in Sheffield City Centre so that we can improve the vibrancy of areas in transition and help businesses to grow. ReNew works by building relationships between landlords, space holders and potential space users.ReNew is supported by Sheffield City Council, Sheffield BID, Wake Smith Solicitors, Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield.”
http://www.renewsheffield.co.uk/about/
South Yorkshire Funding advice Bureau “SYFAB can help you find useful information about funding, learn the skills to become a successful fundraiser, and get specific help with your funding. We provide information, advice and training on funding and fundraising to community and voluntary organisations.”
http://www.syfab.org.uk/
Sheffield city Council “Funding, advice and support for local voluntary and community sector groups and organisations.”
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/in-your-area/grants.html
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