Heritage Strategy
In 2004 Bracknell Forest Borough Council published its first strategy for the area’s heritage and great progress has been made since. The strategy covers a broad range of heritage concerns and interests across the Borough.
Making heritage accessible to people has been an important part of the heritage strategy, and the creation of six loan boxes in a partnership with Reading Museum is just one of the ways we have achieved this. The Heritage Online website has been a great success with over 500 photographs digitally available on it, as well as many of the oral history interviews carried out in 2005.
Heritage projects have helped to bring the areas history to the local people, and have been met enthusiastically. The Borough has participated in the nation wide Heritage Open Days, with many historic sites opening their normally closed doors to the public over a weekend in September, and the recent schools archaeology project at Ambarrow Court made many local residents question the likely hood of the history hidden amongst their homes.
Collections Policy
Part of the Borough Council’s Heritage Strategy was to see the development of a collections policy and a storage policy. Many public and private collections held by various individuals, institutions and organisations have been assessed and catalogued onto a single database, available online. Based on the results of an audit carried out in 2004 the Council's role within the wider collecting remit should be actively to seek to acquire material that will fill gaps in Bracknell Forest’s heritage. The collections policy is in place to help it achieve this.
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