Information from Culture. Tourism and Sport bulletin December 2025
Take part on the Community Hub training needs Survey
Spaces, Places and Belonging is a new UK-wide programme of grants, training and digital tools from the National Archives to help explore, share and celebrate community history and heritage. .
The survey is intended to inform the training and guidance offered by the Community Hub and is open to individuals and groups interested in conducting research into their community heritage, as well as gallery, library, archive, museum and heritage organisations supporting community-led research.
Structure of the Survey
The survey is structured into six sections:
Sections 1 to 4 cover digital heritage, sharing heritage and storytelling, managing collections, funding and sustainability.
Section 5 is foranything important that has been missed and how you would like to best engage with any training or guidance offered.
Section 6 is where you include more about you and your community / group.
The results of this survey will help us to set the priorities for the Hub’s training and guidance programme in 2026.
Important information
- The survey should take around 20 minutes to complete in total.
- Your responses will be totally anonymous, with no identifiable personal information or details about you and your organisation collected.
- The survey data will be held securely on UCL severs and shared only with the Spaces Places and Belonging project partners.
- The survey will be open until 16 January 2026.
- A report will be available on the CAHG website soon after closing
The Spaces Places and Belonging programme is funded by the AHRC (UKRI) and led by The National Archives in partnership with the UK & Ireland Community Archives & Heritage Group, Leeds Museums & Galleries and the National Library of Wales to support inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) and heritage sectors.
Questions? For further information about Spaces Places and Belonging please contact Sophie Anstee de Mas, Community Hub Manager: sophie.ansteedemas@nationalarchves.gov.uk . For questions about this survey please contact Andrew Flinn chair@communityarchives.org.uk