Adopt-a-Monument -- Everyone's Heritage?
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Cara Jones and Phil Richardson - Adopt-a-Monument -- Everyone's Heritage?
Adopt-a-Monument is community-led stewardship project that local communities to take a lead role in conserving and promoting heritage sites that are important to them. The scheme supports groups with heritage skills such as project planning, fundraising, site survey, recording, interpretation and dissemination. We also provide assistance with awareness raising and learning activities so that groups can promote their site to wider audiences.
These Adopt-a-Monument projects have been successful at increasing the conservation, interpretation of important sites and also providing important skills training for local community groups.
However, with this new phase of the Adopt-a-Monument Scheme we have increasingly been working with those groups that do not normally engage with their heritage. To do this we facilitate heritage themed outreach projects specifically aimed at developing audiences amongst the particular under-represented groups and communities that want to learn more about archaeology. Through these projects we offer chances for active engagement and participation, and provide opportunities for disadvantaged groups to learn about their local heritage within a supportive learning environment. This paper will present our results so far - examine which methods have worked, and which haven't, and discuss how we are attempting to overcome these issues for future projects. We will attempt to draw from our experiences of working with diverse communities in Scotland to examine ways in which we can demonstrate that Scotland's heritage is everyone's heritage.
[video=youtube;uWVIdJhUrMY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWVIdJhUrMY[/video]
Cara Jones and Phil Richardson - Adopt-a-Monument -- Everyone's Heritage?
Adopt-a-Monument is community-led stewardship project that local communities to take a lead role in conserving and promoting heritage sites that are important to them. The scheme supports groups with heritage skills such as project planning, fundraising, site survey, recording, interpretation and dissemination. We also provide assistance with awareness raising and learning activities so that groups can promote their site to wider audiences.
These Adopt-a-Monument projects have been successful at increasing the conservation, interpretation of important sites and also providing important skills training for local community groups.
However, with this new phase of the Adopt-a-Monument Scheme we have increasingly been working with those groups that do not normally engage with their heritage. To do this we facilitate heritage themed outreach projects specifically aimed at developing audiences amongst the particular under-represented groups and communities that want to learn more about archaeology. Through these projects we offer chances for active engagement and participation, and provide opportunities for disadvantaged groups to learn about their local heritage within a supportive learning environment. This paper will present our results so far - examine which methods have worked, and which haven't, and discuss how we are attempting to overcome these issues for future projects. We will attempt to draw from our experiences of working with diverse communities in Scotland to examine ways in which we can demonstrate that Scotland's heritage is everyone's heritage.