Laura is a specialist arts and heritage consultant with over 15 years’ experience in National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) activity planning, evaluation, and project management. She brings strategic insight, inclusive practice, and hands‑on delivery across archives, community heritage, and education settings.
She supports organisations to design high‑quality, audience‑centred activity programmes that align with NLHF outcomes and long‑term goals. Known for translating strategic aims into clear, deliverable plans, she works collaboratively with partners and communities to shape sustainable, inclusive programmes that strengthen funding applications and underpin confident delivery.
As an Evaluation Consultant, Laura develops tailored frameworks that combine quantitative and qualitative methods to capture lived experience, measure change, and evidence impact. Her evaluation reports embed logic models and methodologies aligned with NLHF guidance and good practice.
Laura has managed multiple NLHF‑funded projects from development to close down, leading multidisciplinary teams and complex partnerships across whole‑school programmes, community‑led research, volunteer programmes, digital archiving, and artist‑led commissions.
Her 17‑year background in gallery education and outreach established her expertise in inclusive programming, co‑creation, and accessible practice—principles that continue to shape her approach today.