Tender opportunity: Digital skills development for community archives and heritage

Deadline: Monday 1st December, 2025

Over the next two years, the Community Archives and Heritage Group is undertaking a project to develop the digital skills of community archives. The project will involve:

• A half-day set of workshops on practical digital skills for the 2026 Community Archives and Heritage Group Conference.
• A half-day workshop/focus group on digital skills to be run at four regional events in the course of 2026.
• A national CAHG quarterly webinar series

The Community Archives and Heritage Group is seeking a freelance consultant or consortium of consultants to help us deliver the activities described above.

About the project

This project is one strand of the ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ programme (SPB), which is supporting community-led research and engagement across the UK’s heritage sector.  The SPB programme is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and led by the National Archives.