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Funding: Sita Trust – Enhancing Communities Programme
Enhancing Communities is the name of SITA Trust's funding programme for community improvement projects. What will the Trust fund? We support projects that make physical improvements to community leisure facilities and historic buildings / structures. Not-for-profit...
Arts Council England announce Major Partner Museums 2015-18
There are more than 2,000 museums in England, located in most towns and cities across the country. They are arguably some of the finest museums in the world, with extraordinary collections that tell stories that are more relevant today than ever before. Museum...
Wacky Widgets, Weird and Ingenious everyday Inventions – for hire to museums
A unique collection of over 1500 off-beat innovations, from the last 150 years, is available for hire (in aid of disability charities). About the collection The collection built up over the last 35 years contains some of the most weird and eccentric labour saving...
Funding: John Ellerman Foundation – Regional Museums and Galleries Fund
Museums and galleries are a means by which people engage with arts and heritage. Many regional institutions hold important collections which have the power to inspire creativity, motivate artistic expression and stimulate local regeneration. In the current climate...
Research: Determining how to increase donations
** Deadline Extended ** Jayne Franck, Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge is conducting a study to find out what factors about how the donations box and the space where it sits influence giving. The research team need your data to help build a picture...
Jobs: Volunteers wanted – Heage Windmill needs you!
The Grade 2* windmill at Heage, in Derbyshire, was a ruin in the nineties but determined efforts by a group of volunteers led to her (windmills are always feminine by the way) being restored to working order, and opened to the public in 2002. Bringing her from a near...