8399 Evaluating the Heritage Stimulus Fund

As part of the Government's support for the heritage sector, a £50m Heritage Stimulus Fund (HSF) has been made available for repairs projects to heritage assets that will stimulate demand in the heritage construction sector, which faces severe losses owing to the pandemic. This project is to research the impact of the Fund both in the short- and medium-term. Two parallel approaches are envisaged. One is to track the success of the HSF in sustaining the heritage construction sector, which is linked to learning lessons from the grant-making and contract letting processes. The other is to seize the opportunity of the HSF to establish benchmarks or expectations of benefit arising…

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