Heritage Lottery Fund support for umbrella bodies

Heritage Lottery Fund keep up for umbrella bodies

14 June 2013

The National Archives, in partnership with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, CyMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, Scottish Council up the body Archives, the Archives and Records Association and the Institute of Fundraising, has admitted initial support for an £18,000 evolution funding bid from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) beneath its Catalyst umbrella programme. This is a strategic HLF plan for umbrella bodies to build fundraising magnitude in heritage organisations.

The National Archives and partners are a little while ago undertaking a second stage bid below this programme to run a plot between 2014 and 2017. This inclination support archives to increase the funding they embrace from private sources, such as individual and ind donations and trusts and foundations.

Funding magnitude in archives

To embed fundraising for the reon that a core activity within the documents sector requires a cultural shift and audience to resources and training. The bulge will use training and a sequence of pilot projects to help rolls to build a strategic approach to fundraising, and make light awareness and understanding of the funding sources to be turned to account to them. It will help to occasion the skills needed within the registers workforce to employ a range of techniques to improve fundraising and profits generation.

July's Writer of the Month - Peter Hennessy

July's Writer of the Month - Peter Hennessy

12 June 2013

Peter Hennessy have a mind give a talk at The National Archives without interrupti Tuesday 9 July at 14:00, being of the cls who part of our Writer of the Month sequence.

Lord Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Friends of The National Archives.
 
In 2010 Lord Hennessy was appointed some independent crossbench peer. His latest main division is Distilling the frenzy: writing the annals of one's own times.

The use for conversing is free to attend, but please email writerofthemonth@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk to coyness your place.

'Writer of the Month' is a sequence of free talks, in which reaped ground month a high profile author command share their experiences of using primordial records in their writing. See the replete schedule on our Writer of the Month boy-servant or find out more detail attached our events pages.

Heritage Lottery Fund support for Skills for the Future

Heritage Lottery Fund sustenance for Skills for the Future

04 June 2013

The National Archives has received initial support for an £18,000 evolution funding bid from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in subordination to its Skills for the Future plan, the strategic HLF programme that gives folks the skills they need for denoting futurity careers in heritage and opens up estate to wider audiences.

The support command enable The National Archives to sketch out a successor to the present three-year design under the programme, offering a farther on three annual cohorts of trainees the opportunity to develop practical archiving skills betwixt 2014 and 2017.

Speaking about the beginning bid support Nick Kingsley, Head of Archives Sector Development, The National Archives, uttered: 'We are extremely grateful to the HLF with regard to their support in helping us unfold this important investment in the futurity of individuals who want to track careers in the heritage sector.'

Skills and routes into muniments

The project will be delivered in company with the Archives and Records Association and a netting of partners across England who be pleased host work placements at archive and heritage services, providing an alternative route of inlet into archives work for people with non-traditional backgrounds. To enhance their teaching experience, the trainees will share y online learning space, regular joint tuition days and a training week at The National Archives. Trainees devise also have the opportunity to undertake drilling focused on an area of portion, and take advantage of one-to-some support and mentoring to help physical development.

For further information please close union the Archive Sector Development team: asd@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk