Museums, libraries and archives in the South East can access national, regional and European sources of funding for a variety of needs. The main lottery providers are listed on our website and our South East Open4Funding portal allows you to find relevant funding information easily and quickly from the UK's most comprehensive online funding database. The database will be updated every night to ensure that you have access to the most accurate, comprehensive and up to date information.
National, regional and European web-based funding sources include:
AIM Sustainability Grant Scheme
The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) Sustainability Grants are intended to help medium and smaller sized members to improve their medium and long term financial viability. To be eligible for grants under this scheme members must have either an annual turnover of less than £300,000 or less than 60,000 visitors a year.
Arts and Business South East
A&B is the world's most successful and widespread creative network. It helps business people support the cultural sector and the cultural sector inspire business people. New Partners is an investment programme to promote the development of new, sustainable, mutually beneficial partnerships between business and the cultural sector. The Double Your Money programme aims to stimulate small and medium-size businesses to engage in cultural partnerships for the first time and to ‘road- test’ sponsorship on a small scale before committing to greater investments. Applications are invited from either businesses or cultural organisations. Double Your Money will match business sponsorship pound for pound up to £1,000. Applications from museums are currently a priority for investment. Arts & Business South East also offers a variety of development and advisory services.
EUCLID
Euclid supports cultural development through research & consulting, seminars & forums, and cultural information services. Services include Alert, a free electronic newsletter summarising cultural information, and funding and partnership opportunities across Europe; a comprehensive list of seminars, conferences and other events of interest to the cultural sector from around the world and seminars and workshops on European funding.
fit4funding website
This website from the Charities Information Bureau lists funding sources from Government, the Lottery, European Community, Trust, Banks and Building Societies and High Street Stores.
Funder Finder
The Funder Finder provides free downloads of software on writing effective funding applications and planning effective budgets. There is also a comprehensive advice pack supplying general funding information and more detailed advice and information on individual schemes such as the local heritage initiative and Community Champions fund.
Funding Directory
The National Resource Service's database of funding opportunities is intended to guide you through the process of finding financial assistance from non-charitable sources. The Funding Directory is an essential source of information on over 600 non-charitable funding schemes and providers around the UK. In addition to searching the database, you can use the directory to track application deadlines and get the latest funding news.
Funding for Reading Development in Libraries
MLA South East's Reading Development Co-ordinator, Alison Lawrence, has compiled a list of funding which may be available for reading-related activities in libraries.
Funding Sources for Museums & Galleries in the South EastIn February 2002, the South East Museum Agency (SEMA) published an information sheet outlining the key sources of funding for museums and galleries in the South East. Download the information sheet from 'related resources' to the right of the screen
Funds for Historic Buildings
Funds for Historic Buildings gives a comprehensive guide to funding for anyone seeking to repair, restore or convert for a new use any historic building in England and Wales. The website allows you to search for funding sources dependent on your type of organisation, location and the type of building in the project.
Guidestar UK
GuideStar UK is an independent charity set up in 2003 to provide a single, easily accessible source of detailed information about every charity and voluntary organisation in the UK. The free website allows you to search for trusts and foundations direct by name.
www.governmentfunding.org.uk
Access to Government Grants (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Home Office, the Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Health) for the Voluntary and Community sector.
Grants Net
Grants Net offers an on-line searchable database of funding sources.
Heritage Lottery Fund
HLF provide guidance notes on applying to their individual programmes. These are available to download from their website in the application materials section.
Kent 4 Community
Community support funding website for the Kent area. Organisations can search for government, lottery and trust funding and find details of specific community support available only in the Kent area.
Lottery Funding
Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK and allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK.
www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
Website for the umbrella body for the voluntary sector in England, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations
SEMLAC, MLA, British Library Funding Research
This research investigated the key fundraising issues and barriers affecting museums, libraries and archives. The research also identified funding sources and organisations which support museum, library and archive institutions and activity - nationally, and in the South East. NB. SEMLAC was MLA South East's former name. Download the research from 'related resources' to the right of the screen
South East Local Authority Lottery Officers
Contact details of South East Local Authority Officers is available to download from 'related resources' to the right of the screen.
The National Archives
The National Archives offers advice to owners and custodians of manuscripts on sources of funding, in both the public and private sectors, for purchase, cataloguing, conservation, new or improved accommodation and digitisation or electronic networking projects. The leaflet ‘Applying for Grant Aid’ is addressed primarily to the custodians of manuscripts in local, university and specialist record repositories. TNA also co-sponsors with MLA the Archive Lottery Advisory Service, which supports archive services throughout the UK in making applications for lottery funding and the Cataloguing Grants Scheme and National Manuscripts Conservation Trust both administered by The National Archives.
UK Fundraising
UK fundraising news and general information website
