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FUNDRAISING: Strategy, sources and National Cataloguing Grants Fleur Soper Collections Knowledge Manager The National Archives. Fundraising. Fundraising strategy Resources National Cataloguing Grants Resources. Provides an effective approach
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FUNDRAISING: Strategy, sources and National Cataloguing Grants Fleur Soper Collections Knowledge Manager The National Archives
Fundraising • Fundraising strategy • Resources • National Cataloguing Grants • Resources
Provides an effective approach • Connects fundraising with overall mission and values • Connects fundraising with advocacy • Provides an overview of sources available • Allows analysis of need, and planning of which sources to target in the mix Fundraising strategy Benefits
Potential external sources of funding include: Government and statutory funding Trusts and foundations Lottery funding Private funding Income generation Current funding opportunities nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/fundraising-strategy Funding sources
now extended beyond museums to include libraries and archives encourages partnership working within and across the cultural heritage sector grants of between £50,000 and £500,000 developing collections to enhance knowledge, skills and public engagement A word or 2 on Collecting cultures
To address the large and growing backlog of un-catalogued collections across the UK supports the cataloguing of collections that need external funding to provide access to their content Public sector bodies, Registered charities, not-for-profit organisations Publicly accessible archives National cataloguing grants purpose
Funds cataloguing of archives in all formats, supports wider benefits Significant collections, strategic approach, priorities, core resources, sustainable access National cataloguing grants principles
Guidance Case studies nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/cataloguing-grants-programme Everything you need to know? If not... National cataloguing grants resources
Successful applicants Media Archive of Central England, More Than Pits and Pots Hull University Archives, A Classical Arrangement: the archives of architects Francis Johnson and Partners Newcastle University, Pits, Prose and Performance: The Chaplin Legacy University of Bristol Theatre Collection, The Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection National Portrait Gallery, The George Frederic Watts Collection Islington Local History Centre, Sadler's Wells Theatre Collection History of Advertising Trust, J Walter Thompson collection National Portrait Gallery, Sir George Scharf papers National cataloguing grants who & What
THANK YOU! fleur.soper@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk FUNDRAISING: Strategy, sources and National Cataloguing Grants