The National Archives Cataloguing Grants Scheme
Organisation
The National Archives is administering the scheme, funded by the Pilgrim Trust, the Foyle Foundation, the Wolfson Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Mercers Company Charitable Foundation and the Goldsmiths Company. The scheme was set up in 2006 with funding from the Pilgrim Trust and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
Programme Objectives
The scheme aims to address the large and growing backlog of uncatalogued collections in the nation’s archives.
Eligibility
In 2008, the scheme offers a ringfenced sum of £200,000 to applicants from Wales and the South East, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber and Eastern regions of England; the remaining sum is available to applicants regardless of their location in the United Kingdom
Timetable
The deadline for first stage applications is 13th June
2008
Types of projects funded
Cumbria Record Office, Whitehaven. British Steel archive, £18,880
Library & Museum of Freemasonry. Correspondence with masonic lodges in the Americas, £13,000
Glasgow Caledonian University. Scottish TUC archive, £20,000
Application/Contact Details
Nick Kingsley, Head of National Advisory Services
The National Archives
Ruskin Avenue
Kew, Richmond
Surrey
TW9 4DU
Tel: 0208 392 5330 extension 2062.
Email: nick.kingsley@nationalarchives.gov.uk
Web: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives/cataloguing_grants_scheme.htm
