Historic environment: Scotland's Historic Environment Forum

Overview

The Strategic Historic Environment Forum became Scotland’s Historic Environment Forum in 2022 as part of the work to refresh Scotland’s historic environment strategy, Our Place in Time, which was published in 2014. The revised five-year strategy, Our Past, Our Future, was published in 2023 and calls for collective, cross-sectoral action throughout Scotland to achieve its mission, priorities and outcomes.

The forum runs as an annual event where leaders and policy-makers from the historic environment and cross-cutting sectors can come together to collectively take stock and discuss emerging and future issues. 

The National Strategy Steering Group is responsible for oversight and reporting on the strategy’s delivery. This group represents a diversity of interests and perspectives from the historic environment, other relevant sectors, and communities that are essential to the successful delivery of the strategy at national, regional and local level. The group will:

• provide strategic direction and guidance to the National Strategy Programme Team and, through them, to the action groups that exist to deliver the strategy
• ensure effective coordination of strategy delivery and monitor its progress
• identify challenges or obstacles to delivery and propose solutions
• foster collaboration between delivery partners and stakeholders
• promote the strategy and help to communicate and advocate its success.
• advise on any adjustments and improvements to strategy implementation as needed.
• attend the annual Scotland’s Historic Environment Forum meetings

Meeting minutes prior to June 2016 can be found in the archive.

Members

Members of the Steering Group:

• Archaeology Scotland
• Built Environment Forum Scotland
• COSLA
• Diversity Scotland
• Heritage Trust Network
• Highlands and Island Enterprise
• Historic Environment Scotland
• Historic Houses Scotland
• Museums Galleries Scotland
• National Lottery Heritage Fund
• National Trust for Scotland
• NatureScot
• Scottish Government – Culture and Major Events Directorate
• Scottish Government - Net Zero Directorate
• Scottish Land and Estates
• Skills Development Scotland
• South of Scotland Enterprise
• VisitScotland
• Young Scot