Sophia Mirchandani
Sophia has a particular expertise in business and development planning, and funding within the museum and heritage sector. Having previously worked for regional development agencies, she has extensive experience of directly advising individual organisations and in developing wider strategic sector support programmes. Recently she has been commissioned to undertake a range of planning, research and evaluation projects for the HLF, TNA and MLA as well as local authorities and independent heritage organizations. She has been an expert advisor and monitor for HLF for over 15 years, and is an associate consultant to the Charities Aid Foundation specialising in business planning and fundraising.
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Katie Norgrove
Katie has extensive experience of national and regional strategic development for museums, libraries and archives and the wider heritage sector gained from previous positions at the National Council on Archives, DCMS and the Heritage Lottery Fund. She has a particular strength in policy and strategy development, evaluation, research, grants assessment and funding advice and support. She has recently undertaken a number of evaluation and impact studies projects for HLF, TNA and MLA, heritage organisations and grant giving bodies focussing on standardised evaluation frameworks, outcome measures and social and learning impact. She is an expert advisor, mentor and monitor for HLF.
Jocelyn Goddard
Jocelyn came from a community education background into museum and heritage services, specialising in oral history, reminiscence and museum education. She has advised museums, libraries and archives across the South East on learning, interpretation, evaluation, diversity, access and audience development issues. This has involved devising and delivering training as well as more informal mentoring and advice-giving. She has helped to scope and broker partnerships across the heritage sector and with other sectors, such as health and education. She has experience in both reminiscence and oral history work and is a regional networker for the Oral History Society. She has been able to build on the interviewing and group work skills she developed to inform her work in museum and heritage education and for evaluation methodologies. She also has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Kent and has produced, edited and copy-written text in heritage sites, covering exhibition, training, education and advocacy.
Specialist Partners
Throughout our careers we have worked with a wide range of specialists and team up with them as required for individual projects. Partners include, Natalie Chambers an experienced Museum Learning Consultant; Martin Elson a Chartered Town Planner specialising in spatial planning for culture and leisure; Cameron Taylor and Seabridge Consultants a heritage and tourism consulting business and Cassie Herschel-Shorland at Access and Museum Design. For more information on our partners, click here