Deadline: 17 January 2025
Applications are now open for the Engagement Grants Programme that offers grants for organisations to conduct outreach and engagement projects that will connect archives with their communities in places across England and Wales.
For the current round, they would like applications to the Engagement Grant scheme to address the theme of ‘Community’ by proposing projects that either reach out to new audiences or connect with old audiences in new ways. You might be inspired by the national commemorations for VE and VJ Day in 2025 – or by something completely different. They simply want to support engagement with archives that is meaningful for you, your place and your communities.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £3,000 will be available.
Assessment Criteria
- Impact
- They define impact as “the demonstrable contribution that a project makes.” Tell us why your project is going to change things: for you, for your archive service, for your users and audiences, for the archives sector, or for society. They want to understand what difference your proposal will make, and what change will result from the project, and for whom.
- Impact should scale according to the size of the grant being provided: for smaller grants, impact may be personal (new skills or learning), or institutional (such as improved ways of working within your archive service).
- Delivery and Management
- When giving a grant, they need to be confident that it is possible to deliver every project that they fund, within the organisation and with the team you have available. Use this question to fully explain how you intend to carry out the project’s activities, spend its budget and achieve its delivery milestones.
- They would like to understand in detail what you are proposing to do, who will deliver the project and what skills they have.
- Knowledge Sharing
- The National Archives has a leadership role for supporting the archive sector in England and across the UK, and often, they do this by knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing refers to the ways in which understanding, experiences and learning and resources generated by the grant programmes are disseminated.
- There are many more archives in the sector than they can provide funding to: therefore, they would like to understand, as part of your proposal, how you intend to disseminate the knowledge generated, both internally to your organisation and externally to your audiences and the wider archives sector.
For more information, visit The National Archives.
