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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.
Woodhorn Charitable Trust
Towards the salary of a Project Curator, to provide a programme of collection care training to staff and volunteers across the Trust's four Northumberland sites
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2018 |
Grant size | £92,961 |
Duration | 2 years |
Museums Sheffield
Towards the costs of the next phase of the Going Public project which aims to research and develop relationships between private and civic collections and philanthropists, especially in fine art
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2017 |
Grant size | £99,000 |
Duration | 3 years |
Orkney Natural History Society Museum
Towards the salaries of a new Collections Development Team to strengthen the curatorial capacity of Stromness Museum
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2017 |
Grant size | £75,078 |
Duration | 3 years |
Silk Heritage Trust
Towards the salary of the Director and costs associated with improving the care, access and documentation of the collections held by Paradise Mill and the Silk Museum
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2017 |
Grant size | £99,000 |
Duration | 3 years |
Tate Foundation
Towards the costs of a touring and registrarial skills training programme with four regional partner organisations, centred around Le Passeur 1881 by William Stott of Oldham
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2017 |
Grant size | £90,903 |
Duration | 3 years |
Watts Gallery
Towards the salary of a new Curator of Landscape to develop and implement a coherent vision for the different sites comprising the Artists' Village
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2017 |
Grant size | £46,000 |
Duration | 2 years |
Beamish Museum
Towards the costs of curatorial activity in the "Remaking Beamish" project, which aims to create authentic and immersive settings that are representative of the North East.
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2016 |
Grant size | £78,000 |
Duration | 3 years |
National Army Museum
Towards the costs of supporting a national network of regional army museums to broaden audiences, share good practice and support curatorial development.
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2016 |
Grant size | £66,085 |
Duration | 2 years |
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Towards the costs of curating the nation's small boats collection and address under-provision in the care, conservation and interpretation of historic small boats and crafts.
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2016 |
Grant size | £95,172 |
Duration | 2 years |