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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.
From November 2025 the grants listed relate to our current strategy for 2025 to 2030.
Please note that the Visit Website button under each grant listed is a link to the listed grant-holder's website.
Gainsborough's House Society
Towards the salary of the Keeper of Art and Place to maintain curatorial skills and collections-based work and continue the 'Art in Suffolk' initiative with museums across the county
Holburne Museum of Art - Bath
Towards the salary of a Contemporary Curator, a new post shared between the Holburne and The Edge at the University of Bath, to develop innovative approaches to curating contemporary art
National Museums Scotland
Towards the costs of the Natural Science across Scotland project, providing a curatorial training and support programme to over 40 local partner museums
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
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
Orkney Natural History Society Museum
Towards the salaries of a new Collections Development Team to strengthen the curatorial capacity of Stromness Museum
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
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
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
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