This Trust funds:
Arts and Heritage UK
Regional museums and galleries (including Local Authority museums); curators; acquisitions; display, study, acquisition of British ceramics; industrial, maritime, built heritage conservation; archaeology; arts education digitisation and outreach. Repairs and restoration for pre-1850 Anglican cathedrals.
The Headley Museums Archaeological Acquisition Fund runs alongside and in collaboration with the Arts Council England/ V&A Purchase Grant Fund. You can find out more and apply here: The Headley Museums Archaeological Acquisition Fund.
Health and Social Welfare
Support for older people to live independently or improve their quality of life in residential care; projects that help disadvantaged families and young people, especially with access to basic needs, parenting, young people with experience of the care system and strengthening educational engagement.
Overseas
- Projects by local organisations led by local experts focusing on education and employment interventions for women and girls; water, sanitation and hygiene and community health programmes in the poorest anglophone countries in Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Uganda, Zambia).
- Arts & Heritage projects in South Eastern Europe (via a local partner); conservation/recording of heritage; programmes building capacity in the cultural heritage sector and engaging young people in their heritage.
Education
- Apprenticeships and bursaries in conservation and heritage skills for UK students.
- Dance and music bursaries for UK graduate and post-graduate students.
- Primary school music tuition support.
There are no minimum or maximum grant levels and no specific requirement for matched funding.