Funding and Fundraising
Advice on funding and fundraising is available through the Museum Development Service and a range of resources are available on this site.
Fundraising Advice
Your Museum Development Officer can provide you with help and advice to find funding sources for your projects as well as support you in writing funding applications.
Grants
Grants of up to £3,000 are available to each Accredited / Registered museum in the region. VisitSmall Grants for more information.
If you are a museum that receives over 50,000 visits a year you may be eligible to apply for a large grant, a one off grant programme in 2008/09. Visit Large Grants to find out if you are eligible.
Fundraising Project
Hopkins Van Mil has worked with the Museum Development Service over the last eighteen months to
help museums develop their own skills in fundraising through training sessions and one to one
support. Initially piloted in Kent and Medway this project is now being rolled out across the
region with further training planned for spring 2009.
Use the resources below or contact your Museum Development Officer for more
information.
Some of these files are in Adobe PDF Format and you will need Adobe Acrobat to view them.
Fundraising Bursary
For the last two years Renaissance has funded twenty places for people who currently have or plan to assume responsibility for fundraising for their organisation. The programme has enabled the bursary-holders to focus on all aspects of arts and heritage fundraising, benefiting from expert teaching and sharing experiences with one another.
This unique scheme has been created in response to the difficulties many museums have experienced in seriously engaging with fundraising. By recognising fundraising as a strategic organisational function and by helping talented individuals to make a step-change in their skills and career potential, we aim to bring substantial benefit to our sector as a whole. On completion of the programme, we expect participants to contribute to the Renaissance South East Skills Bank, offering advice and support to others as time allows.
Topics include:
- Fundraising strategies and action planning
- Trust and foundation fundraising
- Business sponsorship versus company giving
- Major appeals
- Setting up a development board
- Effective proposal writing
- Improving promotional material
- Legacies
- Relationship fundraising
- Supporting fundraising with effective marketing and PR strategies
- Building and nurturing creative and fruitful relationships with local business
- Getting trustees involved in fundraising
- Successful fundraising events
- To secure the commitment and involvement of Chief Executive Officers (or their equivalent) and
tackle internal cultural factors which can get in the way of successful fundraising
The programme is currently running for 2008 and planning is underway for 2009.
More information
Download Fundraising Programme Information 2008 (PDF, 62KB) or contact your MDO to find out more.
