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This section lists all grants we have made since 2013. The categories from 2013 to 2018 are Arts, Environment and Welfare. This changed in 2018 when Welfare was replaced with Social Action. There is also a separate category for grants to Museums and Galleries in each year.
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 |
Dovecot Studios
Towards new curatorial posts |
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2020 |
Grant size | £81,960 |
Duration | 2 years |
Glasgow Women's Library
Towards the "Curating in Partnership Project" |
Category | Museums and Galleries |
Year awarded | 2020 |
Grant size | £81,423 |
Duration | 2 years |