Invitation to Tender for Interpretation Planning Consultancy

The United Synagogue invites appropriately qualified, experienced and resourced consultants to submit tenders for Interpretation Planning for the Willesden Cemetery Heritage Project in London.

The consultancy may be carried out by an organisation or by an individual. The attached Invitation to Tender describes the brief for services to be carried out by the consultancy.

The United Synagogue has been awarded a Round 1 pass from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) under the Heritage Grant programme to conserve Willesden Cemetery. This is a Victorian cemetery unique in British Jewish heritage which contains the graves of more than 26,000 people including some of the community's most notable individuals.

Willesden's heritage is ripe for discovery and the United Synagogue wishes to promote its opening up to visits by more people and a wider range of communities.

An interpretation Consultant is required to help the United Synagogue develop concepts and selected narratives and stories that will form the core of trails, tours and exhibitions in physical, digital and live formats.

Support is sought to work towards, and write, a comprehensive and detailed Interpretation Plan for the United Synagogue's Round 2 submission that fully complies with current HLF Interpretation Plan guidelines. The United Synagogue is to submit its Round 2 application by September 2017.

The consultant will identify stories and narrative threads, develop and cost interpretive approaches, create illustrative samples and produce the Interpretation Plan.

Additional information: The United Synagogue is separately recruiting other consultants to help it develop other elements of the Round 2 bid. The interpretation consultant will be expected to draw on the work of other consultants and reciprocally contribute to their plans.

In producing an Interpretation Plan the services required will include:

a review of interpretive resources; understanding the site, buildings and landscape; ensuring interpretation fits target audiences, agreeing interpretative approaches and guiding principles, producing detailed sample concepts and designs with broad costing and writing the Interpretation Plan.