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This section lists all grants we have made since 2013. The categories from 2013 to 2018 were Arts, Environment and Welfare. This changed in 2018 when Welfare was replaced with Social Action. There are also separate categories for grants to the Museums and Galleries Fund and to the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) Fund.
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
To facilitate a new curatorial post, Curator of Art and Climate Sciences, at the Centre
| Category | Museums and Galleries |
| Year awarded | 2022 |
| Grant size | £124,677 |
| Duration | 3 years |
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
To use the Tullie House and Lakeland Arts social history collections as a case study for how a comprehensive programme of disposals can be conducted strategically and inclusively
| Category | Museums and Galleries |
| Year awarded | 2022 |
| Grant size | £90,000 |
| Duration | 2 years |
House of Illustration
Towards the creation of the UK's first dedicated online platform for collections-led content on the history of illustration
| Category | Museums and Galleries |
| Year awarded | 2021 |
| Grant size | £56,250 |
| Duration | 2 years |
Jurassic Coast Trust
Towards the new Jurassic Coast Collection project, specifically the salary of the Conservation Officer - Palaeontology, as well as software for cataloguing specimens, and curatorial training for museum staff and volunteers
| Category | Museums and Galleries |
| Year awarded | 2021 |
| Grant size | £80,000 |
| Duration | 2 years |
Nottingham Castle Trust
Towards the salary of a new Assistant Curator role and guest curator fees, to work on their fine art collection
| Category | Museums and Galleries |
| Year awarded | 2021 |
| Grant size | £89,990 |
| Duration | 2 years |
Sheffield Museums Trust
Towards the costs of a Curator of Industry and Metalwork who will work across the Graves Gallery, Millennium Gallery and Weston Park Museum
| Category | Museums and Galleries |
| Year awarded | 2021 |
| Grant size | £94,500 |
| Duration | 3 years |
Tate Gallery Liverpool
Towards the costs of a new curatorial post to embed new models of practice and become more relevant to their local audience, particularly Liverpool's Black communities and people of colour
| Category | Museums and Galleries |
| Year awarded | 2021 |
| Grant size | £115,556 |
| Duration | 2 years |
Art UK
| Towards increased curatorial capacity of "Art Detective", an online forum for specialists and others interested in resolving questions about the artworks held by UK public collections |
| Category | Museums and Galleries |
| Year awarded | 2020 |
| Grant size | £81,425 |
| Duration | 2 years |
Bluecoat
| Towards costs of a Project Curator to explore the links between contemporary art practice and the history and politics of postcolonial legacies, diversity, cultural identity and race |
| Category | Museums and Galleries |
| Year awarded | 2020 |
| Grant size | £99,579 |
| Duration | 2 years |
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