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The Royal Opera House Bridge are seeking museums and heritage sites who would like to contribute to their Virtual Creative Teachers’ Network on Monday 24 January 2022 – a network that brings together creatively minded teachers from across Greater Essex. It currently has a reach of 175 teachers who have signed up to the half-termly event toContinue reading “Essex museums and teachers networking event opportunity “

The new £1 million Essex County Council Arts and Cultural Fund will support the county’s arts and culture sector over a five-year period. The fund will offer artists and cultural organisations grants from £2,500 to £30,000 to deliver projects to help rejuvenate the sector, as well as our towns and city high streets. Open toContinue reading “Essex County Council announce new Arts & Culture Fund “

The team at Jaywick Martello Tower have a budget of £500 and would like to commission someone to create an advisory report they can use to develop the interpretation and accessibility of their displays.  The full brief can be download here [PDF]. Please share with anyone you think may be interested! JMT would like the work to beContinue reading “Jaywick Martello Tower seeking interpretation support “

If you’ve been thinking of ways you can reduce your museum’s negative environmental impact or you are already on this journey and are looking for more support to do this, I’ve compiled this article to help. Some quick suggestions first, then some more in depth reading at the end of the article… Quick(ish) wins ChangeContinue reading “How can your museum be more sustainable?”

Deadline: Thursday 9 December 2021 SHARE Museums East is supporting museums to review and assess their carbon emissions and plan their carbon reduction pathway.  The SHARE Towards Net Zero Carbon grants are available to help museums with this important area of Environmental Responsibility. Museums can apply for a grant up to a maximum of £1200.Continue reading “New SHARE grants – Towards Net Zero Carbon“

The Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund has a budget of £750,000 for 2021/22 provided by Arts Council England’s national lottery funding. The Purchase Grant Fund enables non-nationally funded museums, galleries, specialist libraries, and record offices to strengthen the quality, relevance and standard of their permanent collections, improving audience experience and inspiring students, creative designersContinue reading “Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund”

Museums Essex has now opened Small Grants Round 9 for applications. This round will focus on collections care, enabling museums to better manage their collections and increase staff and volunteer understanding of issues and priorities related to collections care. Eight grants of up to £500 are available, with one of the grants this year veryContinue reading “Small Grants Round 9 now open for applications!”

Royal Opera House Bridge will be opening applications to the next round of their Learning Offer Development Fund from 19 November for cultural organisations based in Essex, Thurrock or Southend-on-Sea. Organisations can apply for between £2,500 and £7,000 to improve their work with children and young people. Whether you want to diversify your current offer, engageContinue reading “Learning Offer Development Fund”

Arts Council have announced the launch of a new Capital Investment Programme so if anyone has any capital funding needs, it would be worth taking a look. Capital Investment Programme | Arts Council England It is open to museums within the Accreditation scheme (Full, Provisional and officially working towards). It’s an open access programme toContinue reading “New Capital Investment Programme from ACE”

The fund supports museums to use their collections to become relevant and sustainable organisations that are connected to and valued by their communities by providing grants for collections engagement of up to £90,000 over around two years. Details can be found here and anyone who wishes to discuss a project idea can contact Sarah Briggs sarah@museumsassociation.org Continue reading “Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund”