What is heritage?
The Heritage Lottery Fund is interested in how young people might be more actively involved in finding out about their heritage and sharing it with others.
Heritage means different things to different people for example heritage can be about your culture, your town or something of particular interest to you.
Ask young people to consider the following questions:
Who am I?
Where am I from?
What have I inherited?
What is important to me?
What would I miss if I moved far away?
What links me with my friends/family/community?
Top tips:
Be clear about what heritage means to your group and what young people want to explore
It doesn’t just need to be about old things, you can consider how things have changed over a set period of time e.g. the last 10, 20 or 50 years
Read the Young People's Heritage Projects, A Model of Practice.
Develop a clear plan and timetable for your project. Don’t try to take on too much. Remember to include a budget for all costs
Contact your local HLF office to discuss your project..
Ways to introduce young people to heritage
Young Roots projects enable young people to explore what heritage means to them. These activities can helps groups of young people to talk about heritage and begin to look at what heritage means to them.
Heritage articulate
Planet Heritage
Heritage Tree
Top tips:
Museum staff have suggested that it is easier for them to develop relationships with young people outside the formal museum setting (in young peoples own environment), before visiting the museum and involving young people behind the scenes in a range of activities
Working in partnership is essential benefiting from both the youth work experience and from the expertise of heritage partners for research and advice on the production of interpretation materials