Martin Thomas

Experience, integrity, and leadership in culture and heritage

Clients have included

  • Plymouth City Council and Plymouth Culture - Options appraisal for The Box, helping secure an additional £4.17m towards the landmark development (opened 2020)
  • National Trust - Castle Drogo project - Application to the Heritage Fund, successfully securing £2.5m for the comprehensive conservation and interpretation works; also supporting the team during development planning  (conservation completed 2022)
  • Dartington Hall Trust - Application to the Heritage Fund, successfully securing over £660,000; also provided expert advice for the Dartington team 
  • Welsh Government and Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum, Caernarfon - Options appraisal for CyMAL to support plans for the national 'Christmas Truce' commemorations

Earlier clients

  • Dorset Museums Association (training for museum managers)
  • Arts Council England - Artsmark (regional assessor and validator)
  • Wide Awake Devon (mentoring)
  • Daisi Devon Arts In School Initiative (seminar)
  • Devon County Council (training delivery for local arts organisations with Sue Kay)
  • Dorset County Museums advisory service (report and evaluation)
  • Teignbridge District Council, Dawlish Community Trust and Dawlish Town Council (options review)
  • South West Culture Executive Board - Arts Council, English Heritage, MLA, Sport England, with Government Office and the South West RDA (regional strategy, following on from Mary Schwarz)
  • Government Office for the South West and Culture South West (seminar planning)
  • Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth (capacity building - exhibition development with Janet Bell)
  • Culture South West (cultural offer regional advisor)
  • Falmouth Art Gallery and the Royal Institution of Cornwall / Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (capacity building - exhibition development with Janet Bell)
  • Dorset History Centre archives service for Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole (report)
  • British Council (seminar)

National Lottery Heritage Fund mentor for the following projects during 2010-18 

  • The Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon, Barnstaple, capital works
  • Trowbridge Museum, Wiltshire, capital works
  • Telegraph Museum Porthcurno, Cornwall, capital works
  • Trenance Cottages, Newquay, Cornwall, interpretation
  • Torre Abbey, phase II, Torquay, interpretation
  • Green Hill Arts & Heritage, Moretonhampstead Development Trust, Dartmoor, advice and guidance
  • 1892 Leader, Brixham, interpretation and access
  • Dennis Potter Heritage, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, advice and guidance
  • Young Roots project - Family, Farming & Tradition, Cornwall, advice and guidance
  • Tucker's Hall, Exeter, advice and guidance

 

 

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