Heritage 2020 is a major initiative to strengthen partnerships and collaborative working across the historic environment sector in order to sustain and promote the historic environment of England, encourage access and broaden knowledge for a variety of audiences.

High Streets
The future of historic high streets is a key concern for the heritage sector as well as local communities, businesses and investors. Find out how the sector is working together ...
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Apprenticeships
Apprenticeship reform provides an opportunity to build a future workforce with the necessary skills to work in heritage. Find out about the new partnerships and qualifications being developed ...
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Local Planning Authority capacity
New approaches are needed to build capacity and support Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) to meet the needs for conservation and archaeology front line services ...
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Transfer of Heritage Assets
The transfer of publicly owned heritage assets is a theme that spans Heritage 2020 framework priorities of systems of heritage protection, heritage at risk and contributing to the growth agenda ...
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Youth Engagement
The Heritage 2020 Public Engagement group is focusing on shared learning of approaches to youth engagement with heritage and enthusing a wider range of individuals in caring for their heritage ...
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Links with Higher Education
It is a priority of the Heritage 2020 Discovery, Identification and Understanding working group to explore how collaboration between the historic environment and higher education can be strengthened ...
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Diversity and inclusion
Issues related to the lack of diversity in the historic environment in England were discussed at the first Heritage 2020 Foresight workshop in 2017 ...
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