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Heritage Council Annual Report 2012 2 0 1 1 Annual Report The Heritage Council 2012 Annual Report The Heritage Council The Heritage Council 2012 Annual Report 2012 Annual Report THE HERITAGE COUNCIL AN CHOMHAIRLE OIDHREACHTA 5 COMMUNITY INITIATIVES AND PROJECTS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 TUARASCÁIL BHLIANTÚIL 2012 The Heritage Council 2012 Annual Report © The Heritage Council 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be printed or reproduced or utilised in any electronic, mechanical,or other means, now known or heretoafter invented, including photocopying or licence permitting restricted copying in Ireland issued by the Irish Copyright Licencing Agency Ltd., The Writers Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 Published by the Heritage Council ISSN 1393 6794 The Heritage Council of Ireland Series ISBN 978-906304-22-5 Funding from National Lottery for grant schemes Printed on Recycled paper containing a minimum of 75 75% de-inked post consumer waste. The Heritage Council 2012 Annual Report CONTENTS Chairman’s Message 4 Chief Executive’s Report 5 1. Introduction 7 1.1 What do we do? 7 2. Achievements 2012 8 2.1 Summary of Key Achievements 9 3. Education, Outreach and Awareness 12 3.1 Heritage Week 12 3.2 Heritage in Schools 13 3.3 Conservation Internships 14 3.4 Farm Building Training 14 3.5 Biological Recording Initiatives 15 4. Policy and Research 16 4.1 National Landcover and Habitat Mapping Programme 16 4.2 High Nature Value Farming 16 4.3 An Economic Evaluation of Ireland’s Historic Environment 16 4.4 Heritage Map Viewer 18 4.5 ‘Our Ocean Wealth. Towards an Integrated Marine Plan for Ireland’ 18 4.6 A Framework for Sustainable Development 18 4.7 Aran Islands LIFE Application 19 5. Community Initiatives and Projects 20 5.1 Heritage Grants Overview 2012 20 5.2 Community-Led Village Design Statement (VDS) Toolkit and Inaugural Workshop 23 5.3 Museum Standards Programme for Ireland 23 5.4 Irish Walled Towns Network 25 5.5 Historic Towns Initiative 26 5.6 Public Realm Plan Programme for Historic Towns and Cities 26 5.7 Heritage Officer Programme 26 5.8 Heritage as an Engine of Economic Growth Workshops 32 6. Heritage Council Support for Heritage Organisations and Infrastructure 33 6.1 The Discovery Programme 33 6.2 National Biodiversity Data Centre (NBDC) 34 6.3 Irish Landmark Trust 34 6.4 Wicklow Uplands Council 35 6.5 Woodlands of Ireland 35 6.6 Burrenbeo 36 6.7 Ireland Reaching Out 37 7. International Initiatives 38 7.1 Providing Support on the EU Presidency 38 7.2 EU Joint Programme Initiative for Cultural Heritage 38 7.3 European Funded and Co-operative Projects 39 8. Administration 40 8.1 Critical Review of the Heritage Council 2012 8.2 Heritage Council Meeting in Listowel, County Kerry, October 2012 40 8.3 Launch of Strategic Plan 2012-2016 40 8.4 Launch of Heritage Council Annual Report 2011 40 9. Corporate Governance 41 10. Financial Statements 42 The Heritage Council 2012 Annual Report CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE ANNUAL REPORT 2012 2012 has been another challenging year for The policy advisory role of the Heritage Council is the Heritage Council, yet despite everything not always as visible as some of the other aspects it was also a very productive one. The list of of its work but it is nevertheless just as significant. achievements to follow provides a very brief The Heritage Council’s role in the formulation of overview of some of the work carried out by the policy in 2012 was marked by several submissions Heritage Council over the past year. It is satisfying to Government on key issues. In a submission on to see that, despite further cuts in 2012, we the consultation for Our Ocean Wealth, Council maintained our services across the board, ensuring welcomed the proposed Integrated Marine Plan some level of public grants were available, that for Ireland that integrated policies be developed the heritage infrastructure has been maintained for our seas. Council also made a submission to and that new research and long term policy work the Department of the Environment, Community continued to be undertaken. and Local Government on the draft Framework for Sustainable Development in Ireland and It is especially gratifying to see that despite the to the Department of Agriculture on the Rural cuts it was possible to provide funding to 250 Development Plan relating specifically to Less grants projects in 2012. Even a quick glance at Favoured Areas. the variety of projects and broad range of groups involved, illustrates the enormous contribution The announcement in November 2011 by the our modest grant programmes (research, Government that it was undertaking a critical education and conservation) make to communities review of the Heritage Council with a view to its working to protect, enhance and promote their merger into the Department of Arts, Heritage and heritage. That we were only able to meet 26% the Gaeltacht tested our resilience but we have of the public’s requests for funding highlights emerged stronger and more confident in our the demand for support for heritage projects mission. In successfully resisting such a merger nationally and the magnitude of public interest in the Council acquitted itself as a positive, effective and concern for heritage. and modern public body. As this report further demonstrates, Council successfully delivers a The constituency represented by grant applicants range of social and economic benefits at minimal notwithstanding, heritage is neither a minority cost, and it is communities that benefit. The interest nor a minor addendum to the national levers that allow this to happen include Council’s economy. An Economic Evaluation of the Historic independence of action and the well-founded Environment, undertaken by Ecorys UK for the public confidence in its capacity to deliver a broad Heritage Council in 2012, revealed that Ireland’s range of programmes and the proposal of expert built heritage alone supports more than 35,000 full multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary policy time equivalent (FTE) jobs in Ireland, representing advice. The recommendations from the critical 2% of total employment in the country. Add to review highlight the value and esteem in which this other dimensions of our heritage, such as our the service Council provides is held. landscapes, museums, heritage centres, national monuments and so on, and the full scale of the I want to thank everyone associated with the contribution heritage makes to the economy and Heritage Council that has helped ensure 2012 was employment comes in to view. another very successful year. The wider public goods that arise from investment in the built heritage include a better quality environment for all of us, as well as ensuring our tourism ‘product’ is maintained. International research has demonstrated that investment in the built heritage not only preserves the character and ambience of towns, cities and villages, but is also more sustainable than new build: a greater portion of the investment goes to salaries rather than materials ensuring a greater spend locally, and the Conor Newman jobs tend also to be higher skilled and better paid Chairman than those required by new build. PAGE 4 The Heritage Council 2012 Annual Report CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S MESSAGE CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REPORT 2012 Despite the difficulties the Heritage Council faced It would be wrong not to acknowledge the stresses in 2012 it maintained its focus on delivering and strains that have been placed on many of the best possible service for the sector and its these heritage organisations, due to the severity of stakeholders and it renewed its sense of purpose the budget cuts. Some very difficult decisions were and mission in its Strategic Plan launched in taken in 2012. Those decisions were necessary February. The Heritage Council, its staff and its to ensure we maintained some public funding for partners remained positively focused on the a grants programme in 2012 and to retain the delivery of its core functions, the articulation of support of employment in the public and private the value of its work to the communities it serves sectors through our core funding for key partners, and ultimately, as referred to in the Chairman’s some of which have taken a decade of effort to see Message, secured a positive result from the critical established. These partners and the networks they review. have created across the country to deliver a wide range of services are to be congratulated for their In launching the Heritage Council’s Strategic Plan, achievements in 2012. The value of our combined Minister Deenihan stated that efforts for our economic and social wellbeing is “… the objectives set out in this Strategic Plan amply demonstrated throughout the sections of will help guide the delivery of key heritage this report, and backed up on a wider front by services over the next five years” independent research. During 2012 and for the foreseeable future Along with many other small and medium sized Council will continue to play its part in meeting enterprises we survived 2012, just. That allows its core objectives; delivering its services in an us to be positive in our outlook for 2013. The efficient manner, providing the best service leadership needed within the sector as a whole possible to its stakeholders and highlighting requires the Heritage Council, in all its work, to its role in delivering economic recovery. Its strive to retain the quality of the service it provides capacity to do so would not have been possible in support of a complex range of heritage interests. without the continued support of the wide range Providing that service to individuals or to large of heritage interests with which it works.
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