As National Lottery Heritage Fund business planning consultants, we specialise in preparing business plans for National Lottery Heritage Fund projects. This includes operational reviews, market assessments, competitive analysis and audience research, option appraisals, advice on governance and staffing, visitor modelling, developing forecast trading profiles, developing marketing plans, preparing risk assessments and evaluation frameworks.   We also prepare business resilience plans.

What helps us to deliver robust business plans for National Lottery Heritage Fund projects?

Our sister company operates CONKERS, a 120-acre woodland discovery and adventure centre; the National Brewery Centre, a major heritage experience in Burton upon Trent; Kent Life, a heritage park in Maidstone and the Cotswold Country Park and Beach near Cirencester. For 12 years they also managed the National Brewery Centre (formerly the Bass Museum).  This hands-on experience is of real benefit alongside our work on heritage and commercial business planning consultancy projects. We are more than happy to provide study tours of these attractions.

While we don’t prepare activity plans, interpretation plans or designs, we regularly work with activity planners, interpretation experts, architects and designers.

We have worked on a number of exciting and challenging National Heritage Lottery Fund business planning and business resilience planning projects. These include Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury, Houghton Hall Park in Dunstable, Bowring Park in Knowsley, Merseyside, the Sussex Wildlife Trust’s new Rye Harbour Discovery Centre project, Longford Park, and Gladstone’s Library.  Follow the link to find out about our National Lottery Heritage Fund Business Planning projects.

“PSC supported us to create a business plan for a new visitor centre at Rye Harbour. This built on work we had carried out, but ensured a well-researched and more thorough approach than we had capacity or experience to deliver ourselves. Kevin and Richard bring direct and practical experience of visitor centre management, so the document is well-grounded in reality. We were also then able to submit this with our bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund.  Richard and Kevin were great to work with – very professional, clear and they produced a thorough and robust document for us. They were very personable and always happy to speak on the phone to ensure clarity. They also kept to all their tight deadlines which was very appreciated, considering how many different people were giving detailed feedback on their drafts! I am happy to recommend them to others.” Tor Lawrence, CEO, Sussex Wildlife Trust

Top left image kindly supplied by Houghton Hall Park

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