Georgia Backhouse · Arts & Heritage ConsultantArts and Heritage Consultancy
Supporting organisations to develop, fund and delivery projects.
About
I work with arts and heritage organisations to build strong funding applications and deliver the projects behind them.
I start by understanding what you want your project to achieve. From there, I bring everything together into a clear plan and a strong funding application, one that maintains the integrity of your aims while meeting funder requirements. Once a project is funded, I can stay with it through to completion.
I hold a BA in History and an MA in Museum and Heritage Development from Nottingham Trent University (NTU), graduating with Distinction in 2024. My dissertation examined how small museums can stay financially sustainable in a difficult funding climate. Alongside my degrees, I interned at cultural consultancies Barker Langham and Culture Syndicates.
Services
Project Development
Every project starts somewhere: an idea, an ambition, a gap that needs filling.
I help organisations clarify what their project is, what it's trying to achieve and how to shape that into a project plan.
Everything that follows is built here.
Bid Writing & Funding Applications
With a clear plan in place, we can build your project's case: telling its story, demonstrating its value and aligning it with the criteria of each funder.
Beyond a single bid, I can also research funders and identify future opportunities suited to your organisation.
The result is an application as strong as the project behind it.
Project Coordination & Delivery
Once a project is funded, I can stay with it through delivery, managing timelines and coordinating participants and partners. Project delivery draws directly on the groundwork laid in development and the commitments made at application stage.
A project's aims matter as much in delivery as they did on paper.
Development to Delivery
Each service works independently, but together they cover your project from first idea to final report.
For organisations that want consistent support throughout, I can take on the full journey.
Projects
For 50 years, Charnwood Arts has engaged creatively with communities in Loughborough, but much of that history is held in the memories of participants and on hard drives, at risk of being lost. This anniversary project sets out to preserve that heritage and reconnect with the communities who created it.
Working with those communities, the project revisits themes from that shared history and asks what they mean today, producing a range of new creative work in response. Oral histories, a digital archive and a digital exhibition will sit alongside the new work, keeping this heritage accessible for the future.
I am working with Charnwood Arts to shape the project framework and lead the National Lottery Heritage Fund bid.
This project is currently in development, pending funding.
In developmentNewstead Abbey, the ancestral home of the poet Lord Byron, holds a collection of over 5,000 objects exploring his life and work.
This project developed new ways of connecting the collection with young adult audiences, drawing on Byron's lasting influence on gothic literature and subculture. Working with the Abbey, our team created new object-based interpretation for their Bloomberg Connects app, linking his life and work to contemporary culture. Three objects anchored the interpretation: the Skull Cup, the Portrait of Byron and the Portrait of Claire Clairmont.
As project manager, I led the project from planning through to delivery.
Delivered as an MA client project in partnership with Newstead Abbey.
CompletedWhen the pandemic closed museum doors, the smallest organisations were hit hardest. This research examined how small and medium accredited museums across South West England responded, comparing their finances before and after the pandemic and the resilience strategies they turned to, from crowdfunding and community engagement to alternative income streams.
I researched and wrote the report for Culture Syndicates, a Nottingham arts and heritage consultancy, and the findings informed their advice to future clients.
Delivered as an internship with Culture Syndicates.
CompletedLet's talk
Whether you have a project in mind, a funding question or just want to find out more,
I'd love to hear from you.
Georgia Backhouse · Arts & Heritage Consultant
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