History Ventures CLUB

The vast majority of heritage organisations simply cannot afford the fees of traditional business and grant advisors. HV Club's goal is to bring commercial success to our members at an affordable, plannable level.

We all know that IKEA make great, affordable products. We save money by doing some work ourselves to put the furniture together. HV Club take exactly the same approach. We guide you, you do some of the work and we'll get you across the line.

HV Club uses collaboration between member organisations to magnify our collective success. We use online, stage by stage sessions to advance your grant and commercial projects. Collaborative working advances learning and understanding, boosts confidence and also allows members to help each other.

In private many volunteer heritage leaders confess they struggle to meet deadlines and they drift past too often. With HV Club we seek to reduce your nagging worries about deadlines but giving you small regular bitesize pieces of work to do with us. So you have some welcome accountability

HV Club is a young organisation, but it seeks to be member-led in terms of programmes and activity. We are not a government or government funded body and this gives us more latitude to support members in a more continuous way, crossing programmes where neccessary.

HV Club follows the commercial calendar of the year. We aim to support you with materials and preparation before key events and dates where your organisation can generate commercial income.

This is vitally important if you are considering joining HV Club. We are not just about grants. In fact we really want clients to benefit from regular, reliable and predictable commercial income as much as possible. You'll be shown many ideas covering 12 main commercial tracts. Be sure we will have  revenue streams for you.