Digital Skills Survey: Reviewing Progress against Baseline Data for Digital Skills in the Heritage Sector

Digital Skills Survey: Reviewing Progress against Baseline Data for Digital Skills in the Heritage Sector

The National Lottery Heritage Fund is seeking to appoint a supplier to undertake a UK wide digital skills survey of the heritage sector which will identify baseline data on digital skills. Up to £60,000 inc. VAT is available to carry out the work. Applications are due on the 28 June 2021, and the work should be completed by November 2021.

Building on work undertaken in 2020, the Digital Attitudes and Skills for Heritage (DASH) survey and report, The Fund wishes to commission a survey and report. The 2020 DASH survey provided a baseline level of digital skills and confidence of organisations across the UK's heritage sector. This project will build on that, identifying any change in capabilities that have taken place. The survey of organisations that deliver heritage related activities in the UK that will include a representative sample of different types, sizes and locations of organisations. It will cover organisations in the south, centre and north of England, as well as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and include small, medium and large heritage organisations. The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports the full breadth of natural, cultural and intangible heritage across the UK. Accordingly, organisations in scope will include museums, libraries and archives, buildings and monuments, as well as those supporting natural heritage, cultural and community heritage. The successful bidder will explain, in relation to the DASH survey work undertaken in 2020, how they plan to build up a set of organisations to survey, and the steps they will make to try to ensure that the overall findings are reasonably representative.

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