Funding

Manchester artists respond to coronavirus crisis

People's History Museum among museums to benefit from funding

Museum funders relax grant conditions in light of Covid-19 pandemic

Plans to adapt or create new funding programmes in response to crisis

What does the 2020 Budget mean for museums?

Government cuts business rates and confirms Cultural Investment Fund

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The policy column | Empowering Collections: a progress report

A year on from the Museums Association’s (MA) Empowering Collections report, it’s pertinent to revisit our vision of making collections more relevant and dynamic. Is the sector making this vision a reality? And how can museums and others sustain the report’s ambition across all 11 recommendations?  Sector bodies have responded. The Collections Trust aims to …

Funding news | The talk of the towns

Museums and other local stakeholders in towns across England are being invited to have their say on how money from the government’s £3.6bn Towns Fund should be spent. One hundred towns and communities have been earmarked to each receive a Town Deal worth up to £25m in funding, including 45 in the Northern Powerhouse and …

ACE threatens funding cuts over lack of diversity

Report shows BAME and disabled people still under represented across arts

Jewish Museum London leaves arts council portfolio as director steps down

Museum will receive tailored funding arrangement to review business model 

Museums at Night festival comes to an end

Biannual event cancelled due to lack of funding

Museums Galleries Scotland announces changes to grants programmes

Organisation says it is removing barriers that stop museums from applying

Jerwood Arts offers new opportunities for curators and museums

Museums invited to host fellowships for people from lower socio-economic backgrounds

Funding news

One for the roads

Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund extended for three more years

Museums across UK will benefit from a further £810k of funding