Grants Made 2017

Organisation Name	Project Title	Grant Paid	Region
National Literacy Trust, London	towards developing an online accredited training programme for Teaching Assistants/Parent Volunteers to manage and improve primary school libraries	£ 80,000	England
Living Paintings Trust, Newbury	towards 'Art Alive!' to create new Touch and See book titles to introduce to blind and partially sighted young people	£ 20,000	England
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge	towards development of a private hire operation to support the sustainability of the expanded Kettle's Yard over 2 years (1st payment of 2)	£ 35,000	England, East
Red Balloon Learner Centre Group, Cambridge	towards year one costs of establishing a Development Team	£ 30,000	England, East
David Parr House, Cambridge	towards the restoration of the interiors of David Parr House	£ 25,000	England, East
Vivacity Culture and Leisure, Peterborough	towards the Peterborough Libraries School Library Service	£ 14,500	England, East
Cambridge Museum of Technology	to fund a new Education Officer role for one year on a matched funding basis	£ 12,000	England, East
Nottingham Castle Foundation	towards the capital redevelopment to transform the site	£ 200,000	England, East Midlands
Believe Academy Trust, Nottingham	towards the Outdoor Learning Space	£ 10,000	England, East Midlands
Royal Air Force Museum, London	towards the RAF Centenary five year Capital Programme to renew and update the Hendon site	£ 200,000	England, London
Fulham Palace Trust	towards the renovation project of external and internal repairs and grounds improvement	£ 75,000	England, London
Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College, London	towards restoring the baroque wall paintings of Sir James Thornhill, conservation of the Painted Hall and creating a new visitor centre in the undercroft	£ 75,000	England, London
Strawberry Hill Trust, London	towards the transportation and installation costs of artwork loans for a major exhibition at Strawberry Hill House and Gardens of Horace Walpole treasures	£ 50,000	England, London
Ambitious about Autism, London	towards the Ambitious College Campus at West Thames College for young people with autism, specifically towards a sensory room and specialist IT classroom in phase 1 of works	£ 40,000	England, London
King's College London	towards digitising the archives of King George III, specifically the funding of one Metadata creator post over three years (3rd payment of 3)	£ 40,000	England, London
Institute of Historical Research, London	towards cataloguing the IHR's library	£ 25,000	England, London
Sir John Soane's Museum, London	towards completing the cataloguing of the Museum's collection of Robert Adams' architectural drawings over four years (1st payment of 4)	£ 25,000	England, London
Children's Discovery Centre East London, London	towards touring to areas of low cultural engagement in 2018	£ 17,000	England, London
Real Action (Q.P.C.T.) Ltd, London	towards the development of the Butterfly Model Grammar project over 2 years (2nd payment of 2)	£ 15,000	England, London
Royal African Society, London	towards the education programme aimed at primary and secondary aged children	£ 15,000	England, London
Beamish Museum	towards 'Remaking Beamish' to create a completely new 1950s scheme plus some additions to the existing 1820s scheme (1st payment of 2)	£ 125,000	England, North East
Natural History Museum, London	towards a learning initiative over two years supporting partner museums across the UK to deliver teacher training to use the museums’ natural history collections to get young people and teachers engaged with science	£ 40,000	England, North East
Ministry of Stories, London	towards a project to replicate the literacy and creative writing programme at partner organisations across the country for the first year	£ 23,000	England, North East
Light Dragoons Charitable Trust, Morpeth	towards expanding the regiment's museum space within the Discovery Museum in Newcastle	£ 20,000	England, North East
Lakeland Arts Trust, Kendal	a further grant towards the renovation and re-opening of the Windermere Jetty Museum offered on a match funding basis	£ 75,000	England, North West
The Shakespeare Schools Festival, London	towards the involvement of 16 additional schools in the North West in the Shakespeare Schools Festival	£ 25,000	England, North West
Play Inclusion Project, Fleetwood	towards the Blackpool Preschool Project to provide support for children with special educational needs	£ 15,000	England, North West
Kingsbury Primary School, Skelmersdale	towards purchasing a new school minibus for the speacial school to access learning activities and experiences outside the classroom	£ 10,000	England, North West
Royal Horticultural Society, London	towards 'A New Future for RHS Collections' campaign, specifically the library suite (£150K) and digital archive management project (£100K) (1st payment of 2)	£ 125,000	England, South East
Aldingbourne Trust, Chichester	towards the £3.25M new Quarry Building providing additional facilities for people with learning disabilities	£ 100,000	England, South East
Nexus Foundation Special School, Tonbridge	towards specialist learning equipment for the expanded special school	£ 30,000	England, South East
Brookfields School, Reading	towards refurbishing and re-equipping the school's sensory room	£ 20,000	England, South East
Manor Green College, Crawley	towards creating a Performing Arts Studio at the special school	£ 20,000	England, South East
Maritime Archaeology Trust, Southampton	towards the development of an education and outreach programme for the Isle of Wight Shipwreck Centre and Maritime Museum for one year	£ 20,000	England, South East
Hartsdown Academy, Margate	to upgrade drama facilities in the main school hall	£ 15,000	England, South East
Barnstaple and North Devon Museum Development Trust	towards The Long Bridge Museum wing extension project	£ 25,000	England, South West
Rowdeford Charity Trust, Devizes	towards the new outdoor learning centre for SEN pupils	£ 25,000	England, South West
BIBIC (British Institute for Brain Injured Children), Langport	towards the salary of an existing Therapist for one year	£ 24,000	England, South West
Dean Heritage Museum Trust, Forest of Dean	towards core costs in 2017	£ 20,000	England, South West
Fairmead Special School, Yeovil	towards 'ICT Futures: Independent Communication Transforming Futures'	£ 15,000	England, South West
Fairground Heritage Trust, Lifton	towards the salary of a part time Education Officer for one year	£ 12,000	England, South West
Friends of Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester	towards 'For the Record', the fit-out of the Group Learning Spaces and Learning Suite in the newly refurbished Gloucestershire Heritage Hub	£ 10,000	England, South West
Ruskin Mill Land Trust, Nailsworth	towards the speech and language and art therapy rooms at Argent College, a new SEN college	£ 75,000	England, West Midlands
Auditory Verbal Centre, Bicester	towards the first year of a two-year project to improve language outcomes for deaf children with additional needs	£ 20,000	England, West Midlands
Foundation for Conductive Education, Birmingham	towards the specialist pre-school and nursery project from September 2017	£ 20,000	England, West Midlands
Sequal Trust, Ellesmere	towards providing communication aids for 14 adults and 11 children	£ 20,000	England, West Midlands
Regency High School, Worcester	towards the purchase of IT learning aids for SEN pupils	£ 10,000	England, West Midlands
Barnsley Museums & Heritage Trust	towards Museums on Tour project to engage pupils in deprived areas of Barnsley	£ 30,000	England, Yorkshire and Humberside
Eureka! The National Children's Museum, Halifax	to re-develop an existing run down gallery into a flexible arts/science learning space - ArtsLaB	£ 30,000	England, Yorkshire and Humberside
Signhills Academy Ltd., Cleethorpes	towards performing art equipment to enable a range of music, educational and performance art projects for the school and wider local community	£ 20,000	England, Yorkshire and Humberside
Historic Royal Palaces, London	towards the Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland representation and opening up the public (1st payment of 2)	£ 125,000	Ireland
Gairloch and District Heritage Company Ltd	as match funding towards relocating the Gairloch Heritage Museum to a larger historic building in the centre of the village	£ 50,000	Scotland
National Trust for Scotland, Edinburgh	towards creating a gallery space at Pollok House for temporary art exhibitions	£ 50,000	Scotland
Dundee Science Centre	towards the Science Learning Institute & Medical Technology Exhibition	£ 40,000	Scotland
Dundee Heritage Trust	towards the continuation of two learning posts to develop their activity and events programme over one year	£ 27,000	Scotland
Clyde Maritime Trust, Glasgow	towards continuation and development of the boatbuilding training programme for a year	£ 20,000	Scotland
Helmsdale Heritage and Arts Society	towards the Deep Time heritage and arts programme	£ 10,000	Scotland
National Maritime Museum, London	towards The Endeavour Galleries Project within the East Wing	£ 400,000	U. K.
British Library, London	towards 'Save our Sounds' a five year partnership campaign with 10 regional archives across the UK to preserve and promote access to the nation's most at risk and vulnerable audio collections (1st payment of 3)	£ 100,000	U. K.
Pilgrim Trust (National Archives Project), London	towards continued support for the National Cataloguing Scheme over five years (5th payment of 5)	£ 50,000	U. K.
ISAAC (UK), Leeds	to design and launch a new website which provides plain English information on communication systems and interventions available to support people with complex communication needs	£ 32,200	U. K.
Listening Books, London	towards the upgrade of the IT and library systems to cope with increased membership and usage	£ 20,000	U. K.
School Library Association, Swindon	towards the School Librarian of the Year Award over three years (1st payment of 3)	£ 6,700	U. K.
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth	towards the new exhibition area of the National Library of Wales, as part of a partnership scheme with Pembrokeshire County Council to create a library, culture and arts centre in Haverfordwest	£ 50,000	Wales
Friends of Ysgol Maes Hyfryd, Flint	towards an outdoor learning shelter at the special school	£ 10,000	Wales
Total: 65 items		£ 3,013,400