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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 | ||
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