Deadline: 14-Feb-2025
The Idlewild Trust is pleased to announce the Arts and Conservation Funds Programme.
Types of Grants
- They support two grant programmes:
- Arts: Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals – the grants support training opportunities for emerging professionals, working creatively and backstage, within the performing and visual arts, post-training, and at an early stage in their career.
- Conservation: Objects and Works of Art – the grants support the conservation of cultural heritage of recognized national and international importance in museums, libraries, galleries, historic buildings, or landscapes accessible to the public.
- Priority will be given to applications that include a knowledge sharing element as an outcome of the project. They are committed to sharing the knowledge and experience of conservators to a wider audience, so depending on the size and resources available within the project they will be looking for knowledge sharing with professional colleagues, for example a webinar, lecture, or published article. A public engagement activity that helps to improve the public understanding of conservation practice is encouraged. Applications must include a treatment proposal from an accredited conservator.
Funding Information
- Application for these awards is by invitation only and the amount available for each award under this scheme will be £21,000 over 3 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Arts – Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals
- The programme should benefit participants aged 18 or over who have already completed their education to the highest available level in their chosen discipline. Organisations applying should be arts sector UK Registered Charities with a proven track record for excellence in their field.
- Idlewild Trust does not fund private or state higher, secondary, or primary education institutions, including universities, schools, colleges and conservatoires.
- Conservation of Cultural Heritage
- They’re interested in projects that aim to conserve historic or artistically important objects and works of art including artefacts, textiles, furniture, metalwork, manuscripts, and wall paintings.
- Works must be in museums, galleries, and historic buildings or their grounds, and be accessible to the public. Priority will be given to applications that include a knowledge sharing element as an outcome of the project. They are committed to sharing the knowledge and experience of conservators to a wider audience, so depending on the size and resources available within the project they will be looking for knowledge sharing with professional colleagues, for example a webinar, lecture, or published article. A public engagement activity that helps to improve the public understanding of conservation practice is encouraged.
- The following information is applicable to both the grant programmes.
- Organisations applying must be one of the following:
- UK Registered Charity with two or more annual returns submitted on time to the Charity Commission
- UK Publicly Exempt Charity: most museums/galleries are Registered Charities, but not all.
- Organisations applying must be one of the following:
Ineligibility Criteria
- They will not fund:
- primary, secondary or higher education institutions, including university courses (specifically schools, colleges and conservatoires, whether state or private).
- charities with the sole or main purpose of making grants
- organisations that have an income of £5,000 per annum or below
- places of worship
For more information, visit The Idlewild Trust.