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The Crannog – Refreshing the Business Plan

DC Research supported the Castle Douglas Development Forum (CDDF) to refresh their business plan for The Crannog (https://www.crannogcampus.co.uk/). As well as refreshing the overall plan, the support work drew on additional sources to help better evidence the rationale for the plan and updated the assessment of the local and national strategic contributions that The Crannog will make.

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Evaluating the Impact of Collections Trust

DC Research has recently completed some work for Collections Trust (https://collectionstrust.org.uk/) that evaluated the impact of Collections Trust’s activities – focusing on the delivery of Arts Council England (ACE) funded activities in 2024-25 whilst also looking at some of the longer-term impacts of Collections Trust’s training, support and advice on museum beneficiaries.

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Old School Thornhill Supporting a Successful Funding Application

Building on previous work we have carried out for Old School Thornhill (https://www.oldschoolthornhill.com/), DC Research worked with the staff at OST to develop a new business plan for OST that was used to support a successful funding application that will enable OST to appoint an OST Building Manager helping to increase the capacity, capability and overall financial sustainability of OST.

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Survey of National Lottery Heritage Fund Staff and Grantees

We recently completed some survey work for the National Lottery Heritage Fund, seeking feedback from both staff and grantee organisations about the Register of Support Services (RoSS) framework of external consultants that the Heritage Fund uses (https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/about/our-people/project-support-consultants-ross-framework). The online surveys achieved excellent response rates, and the findings will help inform the future delivery of the support provided.

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English Civic Museums Network – Making the Case for Investment

We worked alongside Human Economics (https://www.linkedin.com/company/humaneconomics/) to support the development of a paper for the English Civic Museums Network (https://www.ecmn.org.uk/about-ecmn/) that made the case for additional investment in civic museums in England. The paper helped underpin the case made to government that led to the establishment of the Museum Renewal Fund.

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