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Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

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The Museums Association - Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund

Summary

The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund supports museums to improve their inclusive collections and participatory practice with community partners.

The fund will:

  • Support work that furthers the established strategic aims of the applicants in relation to diversity, equity and inclusion, and/or is community-led.
  • Offer core funding to museums, to offer greater flexibility and support embedded change in organisations. Grants will be of a similar size and duration to in previous years.
  • Enhance learning from grantees and share this with the wider museum sector, for example foregrounding leading practice in funded museums and undertaking research with action learning sets.

It is an essential requirement of the Collections Fund that applicants use collections to further their aims for inclusion; and that community groups, partners and/or stakeholders have prominent roles in your work.

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Geographical areas funded: UK

Fund type

Type of funding:
Grant
Type of cost:
Revenue, Core costs

Fund award sizes

Maximum:
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Notes on award amounts:
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Who can apply

The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund is open to all museums and galleries in the United Kingdom. Applicants from within the museum sector must be members of the Museums Association.

Applications from national museums must be in partnership with at least one non-national museum.

When to apply

Spring Grant Round 2024: The next deadline for applications is 22 April 2024.

Next deadline: 22 Apr 2024

How to apply

There will be a two-stage application process. The first stage is to submit an expression of interest using the form available to download from the Fund website.

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Exclusions

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Activites funded: Arts & culture Heritage & building preservation

Beneficiaries funded: General public

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