Collaboration - CONTINUING HISTORIC ENGLAND SUPPORT FOR NP11 PLACE AND CULTURE PARTNERSHIP IN 2024/25

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£10k each from Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Environment Agency, and Natural England. All 5 ALB contributions to be match funded by NP11/ the emerging Pan-Regional Partnership, for total project budget in 2024/25 of £100,000. Since 2019 HE has been engaging alongside other ALBs with the NP11 umbrella body for Northern local enterprise partnerships, promoting a strategic approach to place-based investment across the North. As part of this we co-sponsored NP11's Place Strategy for the North (2022) which makes the case for Place as a huge and untapped opportunity for the North, offering both hard economic outcomes and meaningful benefit to people's wellbeing, livelihoods, and communities. The key objective for HE in supporting this work is to advocate for the relevance of heritage to Northern economic growth and development, and a live example of HE contributing to Levelling Up in action (See campaign plan here) The Place Strategy was publicly launched at the Convention of the North in January 2023.