Every year we publish our Annual Report where we update the community on progress with our Strategic Plan as well as our financial performance.
The Annual Report shines a light on the incredible achievements of local residents, businesses, community groups and Heritage Foundation staff in a year of unprecedented upheaval which triggered its greatest financial crisis.
Our Strategic Plan objectives give greater focus for our work over the next three years and beyond.:
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Improving life chances for people in Letchworth
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Ensure Letchworth continues to be a great place to live
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Initiate a financial recovery roadmap
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Increase investment in Letchworth
Improving life chances for people in Letchworth
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Continue to address poverty and inclusion through our Families and Young People's Project
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Adapt our grants programme to support emerging areas of need, including financial and digital inclusion, and continue to provide grant funding to organisations impacted by COVID-19
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Pilot a neighbourhood social action project
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Commission projects and activities to help reduce poverty and hardship
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Support young unemployed people by taking part in the government’s Kickstart scheme
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Ensure Letchworth continues to be a great place to live
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Launch a Great Outdoors campaign to encourage people to use the Greenway and other green open spaces in Letchworth
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Create a cultural learning programme for schools, using the story of the Garden City to engage children in the story of their hometown and build civic pride
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Showcase local talent through the Letchworth Culture Project
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Improve our online Heritage Advice Service to make it easier for homeowners to apply to make improvements to their properties
Initiate a financial recovery roadmap
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Support town centre recovery by working with the BID to encourage more people to shop local
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Explore opportunities to adapt the spaces we own to create co-working spaces for start-ups, freelancers and the creative community
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Collaborate with the School for Social Entrepreneurs to support local entrepreneurs to scale up their businesses and explore opportunities to encourage enterprise development
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Work with partners to scope a town-wide loyalty scheme to encourage people from Letchworth and the surrounding area to shop, eat out and come to our cinema, gallery and museum
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Build capacity and income through external funding and work with partners to identify collaborative opportunities to attract funding into Letchworth
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Make our venues more commercially successful
Increase investment in Letchworth
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Launch our new fundraising strategy to support the future of our arts, culture and heritage venues and community programmes
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Take a leadership role to advocate for investment in Letchworth to address the needs in our town Research and map Letchworth’s economic future, including local areas of bioscience and digital
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Work with our partners to explore whether Letchworth can become a ‘smart town’
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Respond to the outcome of the Local Plan
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