HMRC has published guidance on the new system for making Gift Aid repayment claims electronically. Charities Online, to be introduced on 22 April, will enable organisations to file their Gift Aid information online. All versions of the current R68 form will be replaced by three options for making claims. For each, extra information is needed […]
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Are you a Heritage Angel?
Are you an Angel? Or do you know someone who deserves rewarding? English Heritage Angel Awards are geared to rewarding the efforts of local people in saving their heritage. EH are seeking applications for this year’s awards, so if you or someone you know has rescued a crumbling historic house, a redundant industrial building, a […]
Textile Society Museum Conservation Awards…
The Textile Society is a charity which promotes the history, culture and study of textiles, established in 1982. The society offers awards of up to £5,000 for a textile relates project within a museum, archive or conservation sector. The Award is designed to support textile related projects within a museum, archive, or conservation studio for exhibition, […]
Art Fund collect 2013 – deadline
£75,000 will be allocated to Art Fund Collect 2013. Now in its sixth and final year, this special funding initiative, organised in partnership with the Crafts Council, aims to recognise curatorial excellence and foster the ambition and scope of contemporary craft collections in the UK. from the Art Fund: The Crafts Council and the Art Fund feel […]
Upcoming Funding Rounds
5 pieces of funding news 1.Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund There is just over a month to go before the end of the current funding round for the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund. The Museums Association is encouraging all museums that have an idea for a project that meets the criteria of the £800,000 fund to get in touch […]
First World War Centenary meeting buzz
The meeting on Weds 6 March at the Herbert in Coventry was amazingly buzzy and fuill of over 40 people, mainly from Warks. and Cov. but also from Shropshire,Kidderminster, Staffs, Birmingham and Leicester . Josie Gale from the First World War Centenary Partnership led the event and set a great tone. The aim of the […]
Individual Giving – Friends, Patrons and Major Gifts: Oxford
Seminar 2 in the ASPIRE Fundraising Series 14 March 2013, 10.30am-3.30pm, Worcester College, Oxford. This seminar will explore developing friends and patrons schemes that attract new members and keep them interested and involved, and attracting major donors for long term philanthropic support. For full details and booking please go here http://aspireindividualgiving.eventbrite.com/. If you need any further information […]
Essentials of Audience Research
Part of the ever skillful Audience Agency’s cycle of ‘Essentials’ training ..this is one that happens in the West Midlands . How can you plan if you don’t know what your audience wants? 13th February 2013, CBSO Centre, Birmingham This workshop will equip you with the tools and knowledge to design and implement an audience research […]
Going Green…
Our West Midlands MDOs programme to help museums be more environmentally sustainable – and reduce their bills – has well and truly started… and we have a new blogpage and a wonderful intern, Tiffany, to keep it going.. Why not explore how it’s going here Museums:goinggreen and explore the previous blogposts, with links, resources and advice […]
British Council offers museums India travel grant
The session on working with India at the Museums Association conference, run jointly by the British Council and NMDC, demonstrated the enthusiasm amongst UK museums for working with India. Discussions amongst the participants showed a broad network of connections between museums in the UK and India, based both on the shared heritage of Empire and […]
