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Rebecca joined the Rebuilding Heritage Programme as Project Manager in May 2022. She has worked as a freelance Heritage Consultant since 2010 specialising in project management and developing audiences. Previous roles include working in Education and Outreach for House of Parliament and Historic Royal Palaces.

Rebecca has an MA (hons) History of Art, MA in Medieval and Tudor Studies and PG Dip in Museum Studies. Outside of work Rebecca enjoys theatre and volunteers with a local community theatre in her beloved Lincolnshire.

India joined Rebuilding Heritage in 2021 as Communications and Engagement Officer. India is particularly interested in languages and heritage crafts. She read Classics at the University of Kent.

She began working with heritage hands-on in 2017, restoring and operating historic sailing vessels throughout Europe. She has a passion for sharing knowledge and teaching traditional skills and contributed to the development of on-board programmes, ranging from confidence-building voyages for disadvantaged youth to educational workshops and corporate events. She has more recently been involved with the restoration of a 106 year old sailing ship in Devon, where she undertakes management, development and fundraising activities.

She has also worked for the National Trust, stewarding natural and historic landscapes.

Sarah managed the Rebuilding Heritage programme throughout the delivery phase and worked closely with the partner organisations: Creative United, Clore Leadership, Chartered Institute of Fundraising and Media Trust to design the support and training offer. Sarah started her career in the sector working on the London Cultural Improvement Programme, a multi-strand programme that supported the cultural sector to innovate services. She has worked at national, local authority and independent heritage organisations, which has given her an understanding of the challenges and opportunities that are particular to the independent heritage movement. Sarah is now the House and Estate Manager at the Alex Moulton Charitable Trust.

Vanessa managed the Rebuilding Heritage programme engagement, focusing on consultation, communications, and participant liaison. Vanessa has worked previously in a variety of different roles across the cultural and heritage sectors, designing and delivering public engagement programmes for museums, gardens, libraries and historic houses, and coordinating sectoral knowledge exchange and training activities whilst working at the University of Oxford on their National Trust Partnership programme, Oxford Cultural Leaders programme, and Supporting Leadership project. Vanessa has now joined the Research, Data and Insight team at the National Lottery Heritage Fund, working as an Insight Manager.