The Heritage Alliance is the largest collaboration of independent heritage organisations in the UK. With over 190 organisational members, including the National Trust, English Heritage and Historic Royal Palaces, the charity represents more than seven million people, from visitors to volunteers, Trustees to staff. The Heritage Alliance supports its members and the wider heritage sector by influencing decision-makers and funders, by promoting the importance of heritage to everybody’s lives, and by supporting the sector through training and networking, which has proved a lifeline to many in these continued challenging times.
Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, The Heritage Alliance is a growing membership organisation and charity, passionate about the contribution heritage makes to prosperity, wellbeing, the environment, creativity and social resilience.It is committed to promoting new thinking and new conversations, and to ensuring that the sector better reflects the varied geographical, ethnic and cultural characteristics of the UK.
The Heritage Alliance gathers insight and evidence so that it can effectively influence policy-making locally and nationally, runs sector support programmes with major partners such as the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England, and it brings members together twice every year with the wider sector for its renowned Heritage Debate and Heritage Day.
In recent years, The Heritage Alliance has doubled its membership and quadrupled its revenue, thereby confirming its status as the national voice of heritage organisations across the UK. As part of its Strategy 2021-26, the charity will work to realise its shared vision and ensure the sector emerges from the Covid-19 crisis inspired and equipped to be better than ever before. It will do this by focussing efforts on four interrelated strategic objectives: advocacy; communicating and connecting; building sustainability and resilience; and developing insight.