Work with Us - Spalding Gentlemen's Society
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Work with Us - Spalding Gentlemen's Society
Work with Us
Work with Us
Dustin Frazier Wood
2026-04-22T10:22:07+01:00
About Spalding Gentlemen’s Society
Spalding Gentlemen’s Society (SGS) was founded in 1710 by Maurice Johnson ‘The Antiquary’ whose initial vision was to support learning and education of his local community. SGS is Britain’s oldest provincial learned society and second-oldest museum, making it of clear national, if not international, heritage significance.
The founding ethos of the Society was ‘Pro Bono Publico’ or ‘for the public good’ and 300 years after the Society was founded, the meaning of this phrase is once again at the very heart of the vision of the project being put forward today.
Today, SGS operates as a public-facing museum and educational charity supported by a membership of more than 360 individuals from around the world (membership being open to anyone over the age of 18). The Society is driven by a team of more than 75 regular volunteers, facilitated by a part-time Head of Collections & Operations and a full-time Collections & Facilities Officer.
Work with Us
SGS is seeking proposals for the provision of a range of consultancy support services for the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society New Beginnings project.
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New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Activity Planning Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
This brief is for the procurement of an activity planning consultant to develop a well-researched and evidenced activity plan for the New Beginnings project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The plan should be developed working closely with SGS’s team to ensure it achieves its organisational and project outcomes. The organisation already has a strong volunteer base and good links to the local community: these aspects should be further developed by being at the heart of all activities. The activity programme needs to be achievable and support the long-term development of the organisation. The development phase allows for this consultant and piloting activities. Co-creation opportunities should also actively be sought as part of the programme.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Activity Planning Consultant
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New Beginnings Invitation to Tender:
Business Planning Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
This brief is for the procurement of a Business Planner to develop a robust, evidence-based Business Plan. The plan will capture the impact of the project and outline how it will be used to develop the museum for five years post project completion. Income targets should be robust and realistic, working with SGS to understand and articulate their vision and mission. The business plan will be for the organisation so must reflect and consider the needs of a range of funders and partners, in particular The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England. The business planner should work closely with the activity planner to ensure a coordinated approach.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Business Planning Consultant
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Branding, Communications and Website Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
The Society is inviting submissions from experienced consultants or consultancy teams to lead on the development and delivery of its branding, communications strategy, and website. The appointed consultant will be responsible for creating a clear, inclusive, and flexible brand identity that reflects the organisation’s values, heritage, and future ambitions. In addition, they will develop a comprehensive communications strategy to guide marketing, digital engagement, stakeholder relations, and audience outreach, ensuring consistent messaging across all channels. The role will also include the design and delivery of a user-friendly, accessible, and visually engaging website that supports the brand and communications objectives. Consultants are expected to work closely with the SGS team throughout both the Heritage Fund development phase and the subsequent delivery phase.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Branding, Communications and Website Consultant
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Evaluation Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
This brief is for the procurement of an evaluation consultant to oversee the project’s evaluation for both development and delivery phases. Key to ensuring the project’s success is to ensure a robust evaluation of the project. As part of this process, SGS requires an evaluation consultant(s) to assess the impact of the project on our audiences, our site and our organisation (including its relationships with external partners and stakeholders). The consultant team will need to oversee the evaluation process ensuring a through and robust external evaluation of the project. The evaluation will need to follow The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s guidance and any other funder requirements. It is also vital that key organisational learning points are identified throughout the process.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Evaluation Consultant
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Fundraising Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
The Society is seeking to procure an experienced fundraising consultant. The Fundraising Consultant will provide strategic advice and practical support to develop and deliver effective fundraising activity. The role includes identifying funding opportunities, shaping compelling funding proposals, advising on budgets and supporting documentation, preparing and submitting funding applications, and guiding the organisation through application, assessment, and decision-making processes. The consultant will work closely with internal teams and stakeholders to strengthen funding strategies, improve the quality of submissions, and increase the likelihood of securing external funding, while ensuring clarity, compliance, and timely delivery throughout the fundraising process.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Fundraising Consultant
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Interpretation and Exhibition Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
The Society is seeking to procure a specialist exhibition and interpretation consultant/designer. The ‘New Beginnings’ project will repurpose the historic engineering works part of the museum site to create essential conservation, exhibition and learning space and a new collections store.
The appointed consultant will work collaboratively with the Society to formulate a site wide interpretation strategy and a comprehensive costed interpretation plan for the New Beginnings project. The strategy will incorporate consideration of the Society’s adjacent historic home located in the 1911 building and will deliver an overarching interpretation perspective for the entire site. The costed interpretation plan will address interpretation and exhibition spaces within the historic engineering works.
The consultant will be expected to deliver an interpretation strategy that establishes a clear and engaging narrative, communicates the site’s significance, stories, and values to a wide and diverse audience, enhances visitor understanding and experience, aligns with the organisation’s wider vision and objectives, and considers accessible, inclusive, and sustainable delivery across a range of media and formats to create meaningful and lasting connections between people and place. This work and the costed plan for The New Beginnings project will form an important part of the Delivery Phase application to the Heritage Fund.
Subject to the outcome of the Delivery Phase application and a review of performance, the consultant may be retained to develop the designs further and then deliver the implementation of the interpretation and exhibition fit out. The client team are open to both design and build approach or design and management. This must be clearly outlined in the tender response.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Interpretation and Exhibition Consultant
Get in Touch
Spalding Gentlemen’s Society,
9 Broad Street,
Spalding,
PE11 1TB
SGS is a Registered Charity, no. 216131
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Work with Us
Dustin Frazier Wood
2026-04-22T10:22:07+01:00
About Spalding Gentlemen’s Society
Spalding Gentlemen’s Society (SGS) was founded in 1710 by Maurice Johnson ‘The Antiquary’ whose initial vision was to support learning and education of his local community. SGS is Britain’s oldest provincial learned society and second-oldest museum, making it of clear national, if not international, heritage significance.
The founding ethos of the Society was ‘Pro Bono Publico’ or ‘for the public good’ and 300 years after the Society was founded, the meaning of this phrase is once again at the very heart of the vision of the project being put forward today.
Today, SGS operates as a public-facing museum and educational charity supported by a membership of more than 360 individuals from around the world (membership being open to anyone over the age of 18). The Society is driven by a team of more than 75 regular volunteers, facilitated by a part-time Head of Collections & Operations and a full-time Collections & Facilities Officer.
Work with Us
SGS is seeking proposals for the provision of a range of consultancy support services for the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society New Beginnings project.
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Activity Planning Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
This brief is for the procurement of an activity planning consultant to develop a well-researched and evidenced activity plan for the New Beginnings project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The plan should be developed working closely with SGS’s team to ensure it achieves its organisational and project outcomes. The organisation already has a strong volunteer base and good links to the local community: these aspects should be further developed by being at the heart of all activities. The activity programme needs to be achievable and support the long-term development of the organisation. The development phase allows for this consultant and piloting activities. Co-creation opportunities should also actively be sought as part of the programme.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Activity Planning Consultant
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender:
Business Planning Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
This brief is for the procurement of a Business Planner to develop a robust, evidence-based Business Plan. The plan will capture the impact of the project and outline how it will be used to develop the museum for five years post project completion. Income targets should be robust and realistic, working with SGS to understand and articulate their vision and mission. The business plan will be for the organisation so must reflect and consider the needs of a range of funders and partners, in particular The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England. The business planner should work closely with the activity planner to ensure a coordinated approach.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Business Planning Consultant
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Branding, Communications and Website Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
The Society is inviting submissions from experienced consultants or consultancy teams to lead on the development and delivery of its branding, communications strategy, and website. The appointed consultant will be responsible for creating a clear, inclusive, and flexible brand identity that reflects the organisation’s values, heritage, and future ambitions. In addition, they will develop a comprehensive communications strategy to guide marketing, digital engagement, stakeholder relations, and audience outreach, ensuring consistent messaging across all channels. The role will also include the design and delivery of a user-friendly, accessible, and visually engaging website that supports the brand and communications objectives. Consultants are expected to work closely with the SGS team throughout both the Heritage Fund development phase and the subsequent delivery phase.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Branding, Communications and Website Consultant
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Evaluation Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
This brief is for the procurement of an evaluation consultant to oversee the project’s evaluation for both development and delivery phases. Key to ensuring the project’s success is to ensure a robust evaluation of the project. As part of this process, SGS requires an evaluation consultant(s) to assess the impact of the project on our audiences, our site and our organisation (including its relationships with external partners and stakeholders). The consultant team will need to oversee the evaluation process ensuring a through and robust external evaluation of the project. The evaluation will need to follow The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s guidance and any other funder requirements. It is also vital that key organisational learning points are identified throughout the process.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Evaluation Consultant
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Fundraising Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
The Society is seeking to procure an experienced fundraising consultant. The Fundraising Consultant will provide strategic advice and practical support to develop and deliver effective fundraising activity. The role includes identifying funding opportunities, shaping compelling funding proposals, advising on budgets and supporting documentation, preparing and submitting funding applications, and guiding the organisation through application, assessment, and decision-making processes. The consultant will work closely with internal teams and stakeholders to strengthen funding strategies, improve the quality of submissions, and increase the likelihood of securing external funding, while ensuring clarity, compliance, and timely delivery throughout the fundraising process.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Fundraising Consultant
____________
New Beginnings Invitation to Tender: Interpretation and Exhibition Consultant
Return Date:
12th May 2026
The Society is seeking to procure a specialist exhibition and interpretation consultant/designer. The ‘New Beginnings’ project will repurpose the historic engineering works part of the museum site to create essential conservation, exhibition and learning space and a new collections store.
The appointed consultant will work collaboratively with the Society to formulate a site wide interpretation strategy and a comprehensive costed interpretation plan for the New Beginnings project. The strategy will incorporate consideration of the Society’s adjacent historic home located in the 1911 building and will deliver an overarching interpretation perspective for the entire site. The costed interpretation plan will address interpretation and exhibition spaces within the historic engineering works.
The consultant will be expected to deliver an interpretation strategy that establishes a clear and engaging narrative, communicates the site’s significance, stories, and values to a wide and diverse audience, enhances visitor understanding and experience, aligns with the organisation’s wider vision and objectives, and considers accessible, inclusive, and sustainable delivery across a range of media and formats to create meaningful and lasting connections between people and place. This work and the costed plan for The New Beginnings project will form an important part of the Delivery Phase application to the Heritage Fund.
Subject to the outcome of the Delivery Phase application and a review of performance, the consultant may be retained to develop the designs further and then deliver the implementation of the interpretation and exhibition fit out. The client team are open to both design and build approach or design and management. This must be clearly outlined in the tender response.
Click here to read the full information:
Invitation to Tender: Interpretation and Exhibition Consultant
Get in Touch
Spalding Gentlemen’s Society,
9 Broad Street,
Spalding,
PE11 1TB
SGS is a Registered Charity, no. 216131
Sign up to our email newsletter
Recent News
Medieval ring discovered by local metal detectorists donated to SGS
20/04/2026
My time as Heritage Associate
15/04/2026
Exciting new exhibitions exploring the history of ‘Science’ and ‘Navigation’ to open in Spalding
23/03/2026
Don’t miss our March 2026 Lectures
05/03/2026
Musings from the Museum 36: William Dodd
23/02/2026
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