Deadline: 5-Sep-24
The Idlewild Trust is seeking applications for its two grant programmes supporting specific areas within conservation and the arts.
Grant Programmes
- Arts – Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals
- Aim: To support opportunities for professionals (working creatively) within the performing and visual arts, post training, and at an early stage in their careers. The priority is to support organisations which offer high-level training to early career participants in the performing, fine and applied arts – for example, musicians, dancers, actors, writers, artists, composers, curators, and theatre-makers.
- Conservation of Cultural Heritage
- Aim: To support the conservation of cultural heritage of recognized national or international importance, such as objects and works of art in museums, libraries, galleries, historic buildings or landscapes accessible to the public.
Funding Information
- They support two grant programmes, awarding one-off annual grants to a maximum of £7,000.
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.
- A Conservation Report by an independent and accredited conservator needs to be completed before you apply to them. The report should include independent authentication, information on condition, proposed treatment and cost. If your organisation has an in-house, qualified conservator, they’ll accept an internal Conservation Report if the conservator is accredited with Icon, unless there are mitigating circumstances that make this impossible.
- Organisations applying must be UK Registered Charities or national museums that are UK Exempt Charities.
- Please note that Idlewild Trust no longer funds conservation projects submitted by places of worship.
Ineligible
- They will not fund:
- primary, secondary or higher education institutions, including university courses (specifically schools, colleges and conservatoires, whether state or private).
- Note, under the Conservation programme, they do not exclude collections held by Universities.
- 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.
