FUNDRAISING: Strategy, sources
and National Cataloguing Grants
Fleur Soper
Collections Knowledge Manager
The National Archives
FUNDRAISING
•Fundraising strategy
• Resources
• National Cataloguing Grants
• Resources
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• 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/archivessector/fundraising-strategy
FUNDING SOURCES
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• 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
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• 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
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• Funds cataloguing of archives in all formats,
supports wider benefits
• Significant collections, strategic approach,
priorities, core resources, sustainable access
NATIONAL CATALOGUING GRANTS PRINCIPLES
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• Guidance
• Case studies
•nationalarchives.gov.uk/archivessector/cataloguing-grants-programme
• Everything you need to know? If not...
NATIONAL CATALOGUING GRANTS RESOURCES
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•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
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THANK YOU!
fleur.soper@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk
FUNDRAISING: STRATEGY, SOURCES AND NATIONAL
CATALOGUING GRANTS
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