Storytelling Tenders
See open storytelling tenders and awarded contracts for the UK public sector.
Storytelling procurement here is mostly heritage and cultural work: interpretation strategies for museums and visitor centres, oral history collection, digital interpretation built into a gallery refit, and standalone storytelling commissions. Councils, museum trusts, national parks and lottery-funded heritage projects are the buyers.
718 notices match on record. 262 are awarded and only 6 are open, so the useful move is reading who won the last interpretation round.
672 results
- Closed tenderPublished 24 October 2022
SC22292 – Cross-Channel Geopark Geosites Identification Signage and Interpretation Strategy
- Closed tenderPublished 24 October 2022
SC22292 - Cross-Channel Geopark Geosites Identification Signage and Interpretation Strategy
- Expired contract
QU804 - Community Leadership Training - AWARD
- Closed tenderPublished 14 October 2022
Growing up in Dudley - A creative Needs Assessment
- Expired contract
23ENG004 Health Equalities Learning & Support (Phase 2)
- Closed tenderPublished 7 October 2022
CA11210 - Tender 64/2022 - Provision of Portable Power Requirements Forest Footsteps in the Forest Event, Slieve Gullion
- Closed tenderPublished 4 October 2022
TEMPLE NEWSAM HOME FARM INTERPRETATION
- Awarded contract
Provision of Heritage Interpretive Services including Research, Planning, Copywriting, Design, Manufacture and installation
- Closed tenderPublished 3 October 2022
https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/about/customer-service/supplier-zone
- Awarded contract
Provision of Heritage Interpretive Services including Research, Planning, Copywriting, Design, Manufacture and installation
- Closed tenderPublished 30 September 2022
TEMPLE NEWSAM HOME FARM - INTERPRETATION STRATEGY
- Expired contract
SEND digital provision - video production and commission programmes of digital and employability skills
- Closed tenderPublished 21 September 2022
Provision of Digital Interactive Media to accompany the Tapestry of the Highlands and Islands as part of the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands Project
- Closed tenderPublished 16 September 2022
Leeds Liverpool Canal Heritage Interpretation Scheme – Skipton
- Closed tenderPublished 6 September 2022
New Central Milton Keynes Trail - Phase 1
- Closed tenderPublished 25 August 2022
ARFQ To Carry Out a Community /Engagement Exercise for The Development of a Heritage Lottery Fund Bid for Botanic Gardens, Churchtown, Southport
- Awarded contract
Video Production Framework
- Closed tenderPublished 1 August 2022
QU804 - Community Leadership Training
- Closed tenderPublished 22 July 2022
British Library consult for Azure hybrid cloud compute environment technically & commercially
- Closed tenderPublished 21 July 2022
Curator with community engagement and archival skills
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about storytelling, heritage interpretation, interpretation strategy, oral history, digital interpretation, museum interpretation, visitor interpretation in the UK public sector.
How do I find storytelling tenders in the UK?
Two routes. Search the portals for live briefs, or work backwards from the buyers who commission interpretation on a project cycle: museum trusts, national parks, council heritage teams. Stotles pulls notices from 100+ portals into one place, so an oral history brief and a visitor centre interpretation project land in the same feed. Platform-wide, 2,137 tenders are open right now.
What kind of work do storytelling contracts cover?
Less marketing than the phrase suggests. Across the 718 notices on record the bulk is heritage and cultural interpretation: interpretation strategies and advisers, oral history collection and transcription, digital interpretation built into a museum or visitor centre refit, and community storytelling commissions. A smaller share sits inside communications and campaign briefs where storytelling is one line of a much wider scope, so read the lot structure before assuming the whole contract is yours to bid for.
What CPV codes are used for storytelling and interpretation contracts?
Three turn up most often. 92500000 (Library, archives, museums and other cultural services) appeared on 8 of the 50 most recent matching notices, 79415200 (Design consultancy services) on 8, and 92312000 (Artistic services) on 6. Tagging is loose, because the same brief can be filed as culture, design, training or community services. Treat the codes as a starting point rather than a filter.
How competitive are storytelling and interpretation tenders?
Small contracts, and few of them live at any one time. Only 6 of the 718 notices on record are open, against 262 already awarded and 30 sitting at pre-tender, so the practical route in is watching pipelines and knowing which consultancy holds the current interpretation work. Across the public sector, 53% of suppliers landed just one to five contracts last year (Stotles 2026 Supplier Benchmark Report).
Who buys storytelling work in the public sector?
Museum and heritage trusts, councils, national parks and cultural agencies, usually inside a lottery-funded capital project or a visitor experience programme. Government communications teams appear too, where storytelling is a strand of a marketing or PR brief. Platform-wide, 0 notices were added in the last seven days, and 2 of the matches here were published in that window.
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