Museums and galleries can apply for the new £2.25m Adult and Community Learning Fund.
The aim of the fund is to support new informal learning opportunities that engage and motivate disadvantaged adults in particular. The maximum for any bid is £75,000 and the minimum is £10,000.
Projects should be ready to start by 1 September and completed by 31 March 2012.
The deadline for the fund, which is provided by the Skills Funding Agency and administered by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, is 10 June. It is open to organisations in England and applications have to be made online.
Meanwhile, Arts Council England and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts are developing a £500,000 programme to help arts and cultural organisations use digital technologies to engage audiences in fresh ways and to create new business models.
The programme aims to support projects that can be adapted and implemented by other organisations.
In Scotland, 11 projects have received up to £30,000 from Museums Galleries Scotland’s main grants programme. A total of £220,000 has been invested, including £20,000 for Argyll & Bute Council to refurbish Campbeltown Museum and £11,881 for Caithness Horizons to develop a permanent exhibition about the Dounreay Nuclear Establishment.
The next deadline for the main grant scheme is 1 October for preapplications and 20 January 2011 for full applications.
www.niace.org.uk
www.nesta.org.uk
www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk
The aim of the fund is to support new informal learning opportunities that engage and motivate disadvantaged adults in particular. The maximum for any bid is £75,000 and the minimum is £10,000.
Projects should be ready to start by 1 September and completed by 31 March 2012.
The deadline for the fund, which is provided by the Skills Funding Agency and administered by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, is 10 June. It is open to organisations in England and applications have to be made online.
Meanwhile, Arts Council England and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts are developing a £500,000 programme to help arts and cultural organisations use digital technologies to engage audiences in fresh ways and to create new business models.
The programme aims to support projects that can be adapted and implemented by other organisations.
In Scotland, 11 projects have received up to £30,000 from Museums Galleries Scotland’s main grants programme. A total of £220,000 has been invested, including £20,000 for Argyll & Bute Council to refurbish Campbeltown Museum and £11,881 for Caithness Horizons to develop a permanent exhibition about the Dounreay Nuclear Establishment.
The next deadline for the main grant scheme is 1 October for preapplications and 20 January 2011 for full applications.
www.niace.org.uk
www.nesta.org.uk
www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk
