The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust is carrying out a piece of research which will explore the current state of play of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion work in the heritage sector, with particular reference to race and racism. This work is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Museum Development North West, Museum Development Yorkshire,…
Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund
The window for expressions of interest to the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund is now open. The current funding stream is for collections engagement, offering grants of up to £90,000 over two years. All applicants must meet a set of essential requirements relating to using existing collections to engage audiences. There is a two-stage application process and applicants…
Archaeological Achievement Awards 2021 Nominations Now Open
Nominations for this year’s Archaeological Achievement Awards, run by the Council for British Archaeology, are now open. There will be 5 award categories and one overall outstanding achievement award, with an emphasis on a range of cross cutting themes that are designed to show how archaeology relates to wider society, health and wellbeing, and place….
Kids in Museums Sector Survey
Kids in Museums want to hear your views on their current programmes and what you would like them to offer in the future. Founded in 2003, Kids in Museums’ mission is to work with museums nationwide to make them more welcoming to children, young people, and families. They have led significant change in the museum…
Winners of the Association for Industrial Archaeology’s 2020 Publication Award Announced
The 2020 winners of the Association for Industrial Archaeology’s publication awards have been announced. These are David Dungworth, for Glassworking in England from the 14th to the 20th century in England (Historic England & Liverpool University Press), and Martin Green and Michael Jeffs, for The Ironmen of Leamington (Leamington Industrial History Group and the Warwickshire…
ACE Cultural Recovery Grants Round 3 Support
ACE has issued new details of the third round of the Culture Recovery Fund (CRF 3). Two strands are being administered within the fund – the Continuity Support Fund and the Emergency Resource Support Fund. Other arms-length bodies (NLHF, Historic England, British Film Institute) will also be delivering programmes under the same funding strands. Continuity Support Organisations that previously received CRF1 & CRF2 grants are eligible to…
Sector Statement on Heritage, Museums, and Collections at Risk Updated
Arts Council England along with 16 other national stakeholders, including Museum Development UK, has refreshed and published the joint statement with a wider remit to cover heritage, alongside museums and collections at risk. The new statement reads as follows: “Relevant funders alongside sector bodies have updated their co-ordinated approach in response to urgent situations when…
Heritage Compass Business Support Expanded
Cause4 , who run the Heritage Compass Business Support Programme established in 2020, has been awarded additional funding by the National Lottery Heritage Fund & DCMS to expand the Programme. This will see the support grow from 150 up to 300 small to medium sized heritage organisations across England, in partnership with the Arts Marketing Association and Creative…
AIA e-news for July 2021
Welcome to the Association for Industrial Archaeology’s regular e-news bulletin. Read on for updates on what we’ve been doing recently, and other industrial archaeology news from the UK and beyond. If you have a story you think we should feature in a future bulletin please get in touch. Variety is the spice of planning applications?…
Historic England Announce Support for Heritage Construction Skills
Historic England have announced the launch of a new five-year training and apprenticeship programme to help save heritage construction skills. The £4.3 million programme will address asevere skills shortages in the heritage sector. It is made possible thanks to funding from The Hamish Ogston Foundation – the largest one-off investment ever awarded to heritage construction training…
Industrial Heritage Support 