As part of their Inclusion Strategy 2021-2023, Historic England is committed to making the heritage workforce and volunteers more representative of society. However, they need to have data on the current demographic make-up of the sector’s workforce (including volunteers and governance roles), to inform the next steps. The results of this work will be made available to the sector to help inform future work on improving the diversity of the workforce, and to understand gaps in data within the sector.

The questions they are seeking to answer through this research are:

  • What does the workforce of the Heritage sector currently look like? 
  • How does this compare with the demographic make-up of England?
  • What does the workforce in the Heritage sector look like with regard to different job roles?

The first phase of this will be about understanding which data is already held within the sector, and which organisations are already collecting data:

  1. Please open the document attached and follow the instructions:
    1. EVERYONE please complete the table and email it to the address shown.
    2. If you have reports and are able to upload them please follow the instructions to do this.
    3. If you have information but prefer to send it by email or by post there is an address provided.
  2. Please respond by October 29th.
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