Tarbert Heritage Scheme: Textile Heritage Community Project - Threads of the Sea (HES/Lottery Funded) (RETENDER)
Argyll and Bute Council · Scotland · up to £10,000
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What the buyer wants
Appointment of an experienced facilitator team to design and deliver a community-led textile heritage project in Tarbert, focusing on traditional textile crafts to explore maritime heritage and foster community engagement and wellbeing.
The purpose of this commission is to appoint a suitably experienced facilitator (team) to design and deliver a community-led textile heritage project, entitled, Threads of the Sea.
The project will use traditional textile crafts (knitting, embroidery, spinning and dyeing) to explore and interpret Tarbert’s maritime heritage, engaging a wide cross-section of the community in the creation of meaningful, place-based artworks.
The project seeks to:
1) Engage the Tarbert community in creative exploration of local maritime heritage
2) Revitalise and reinterpret traditional textile skills
3) Foster social connection, wellbeing, and intergenerational learning
4)Create visible, high-quality public artworks rooted in place and people
Textile practice will be used as both a heritage interpretation tool and a social activity, supporting storytelling, cultural exchange, and community cohesion.
Description as published on Public Contracts Scotland: read the official notice.
How Tenderoo reads it
The notice reads as suitable for a small or medium-sized firm: the scope, value and requirements are within reach of a business of that size.
Services required
- Community engagement
- Project facilitation
- Heritage interpretation
- Textile arts facilitation
What you will need to show
- Experience in community-led textile heritage projects — Supplier must demonstrate suitable experience in facilitating community-led projects involving textile heritage and traditional crafts.
- Ability to engage diverse community groups — Supplier must be capable of engaging a wide cross-section of the community in creative exploration and participation.
- Capability to deliver high-quality public artworks — Supplier must be able to create visible, high-quality public artworks rooted in place and people.
Lots
- Lot 1 — The purpose of this commission is to appoint a suitably experienced facilitator (team) to design and deliver a community-led textile heritage project, entitled, Threads of the Sea. The project will use traditional textile crafts (knitting, embroidery, spinning and dyeing) to explore and interpret Tarbert’s maritime heritage, engaging a wide cross-section of the community in the creation of meaningful, place-based artworks. The project seeks to: 1) Engage the Tarbert community in creative exploration of local maritime heritage 2) Revitalise and reinterpret traditional textile skills 3) Foster social connection, wellbeing, and intergenerational learning 4)Create visible, high-quality public artworks rooted in place and people Textile practice will be used as both a heritage interpretation tool and a social activity, supporting storytelling, cultural exchange, and community cohesion.. This is project is funded by HES/Lottery Funds. There is a maximum budget, for the whole requirement, of 10,000.00 GBP only.
Key facts
- Buyer: Argyll and Bute Council
- Estimated value: up to £10,000
- Deadline: 30 October 2026
- Location: Scotland
- Published on: Public Contracts Scotland — read the official notice
- First seen by Tenderoo: 8 October 2026
- CPV: 92312000
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