The next deadline for the submission of applications is 3rd April 2023 with the decision in mid-June. If you want to plan ahead, the deadline after that is 1st October 2023. Since 1990 we have awarded grants of over £3.7m towards projects with a total value of over 7.2m. Thanks to our grants many thousands of manuscripts and archives across the UK are accessible to the public and researchers.
This film shows the conservation of the Conisborough Court Rolls dating from the 12th to 15th centuries. The Court Rolls are records of national significance; they are in the collections of Doncaster Archives and were conserved, with a NMCT grant, by the West Yorkshire Archives Service.
This video records the stages in the cleaning and repair of a cartulary made by the monks at Gloucester in 1393.
Watch this great film showing a NMCT-funded conservation project in action!
The Trustees of NMCT awarded 12 grants at their recent meeting.
The funds that we had available for grant giving were much reduced due to the effect of Covid-19 on NMCT's income. However, given the effect of Covid on collecting institutions and on freelance conservators the Trustees felt that it was vital that NMCT should give as much support as it could in such an extraordinarily challenging year. They therefore decided, for the first time, to dip into reserves, enabling them to award grants totalling £153,000.
The Government recently announced a £1.75bn Cultural Recovery Package. The main schemes announced so far that are relevant to collecting institutions and conservators are:
NMCT celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2020. Read about all the conservation projects we supported in 2019 and a selection of projects from the last 30 years.
Our grants process continues as normal in spite of Covid-19. Find out more here.
At their recent meeting the Trustees agreed ten grants to a total value of just under £87,000. The following institutions and projects were supported:
Kresen Kernow is the new home for the collections of the Archives and Cornish Studies Service. Built on the former Brewery site in Redruth, it is home to 1.5 million documents covering 850 years of Cornwall's history.
