AIM is delighted to announce the latest AIM member museums in Wales to receive funding via the AIM Hallmarks Awards. These grants will boost the financial sustainability of Welsh AIM members and provide support for their trustees and boards.
AIM’s Director, Emma Chaplin, welcomed the news saying: “From online shops to developing fundraising skills and introducing new branding, we are delighted to be able to support innovative projects, inspired by AIM’s Hallmarks, across museums in Wales. We are grateful that the Welsh Government recognises that this work can make a positive and long lasting impact on the financial resilience of museums.”
The AIM Hallmarks Awards are possible thanks to a programme supported by the Welsh Government through the Museums, Archives and Libraries Division. The awards will reopen for applications from AIM members in Wales in late 2019.
Deborah-Anne Wildgust, Curator at Torfaen Museum Trust who received an AIM Hallmarks Award said: “After all the negativity and cuts in funding over the last few years, we are so looking forward to being positive and pro-active in taking our museum Trust forward. This AIM Hallmarks grant in association with the Welsh Government, will help us enormously to make the move forward with a much-needed professional person to assist existing staff and focus on establishing new ways of sustaining our income and our future.”
The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture (ALMoS)
Grant awarded: £6,000
Project: ALMoS Communications Strategy enabling branding re-focus, developing KPI’s & benchmarks, methods & processes and to increase attenders / income annually
Cynon Valley Museum Trust
Grant awarded: £5,986.57
Project: Securing our Trajectory: Investing in CVM’s income generation capacity by supporting volunteers, training, staff and capital equipment.
Rhayader Museum and Gallery, CARAD. Community Arts Rhayader And District
Grant awarded: £3,850
Project: Fundraising Mentor and Trainer: As volunteers, we lack the skills and confidence to undertake larger funding applications. A mentor and training funded by AIM would help to overcome this
The Judge’s Lodging
Grant awarded: £4,000.00
Project: Securing the Future – 2019 is our pivotal year between local authority and complete independent Trust ownership. Our plans require investment in fundraising, a new area of learning and development.
Torfaen Museum Trust Ltd
Grant awarded: £5,440
Project: ‘A Co-Ordinator for Income Streams’ project: Investment funding is needed for a professional Co-Ordinator post to establish a new online sales point and further develop Membership as potential income streams.
Carmarthenshire County Museum and on the behalf of Parc Howard Museum, Museum of Speed, Kidwelly Industrial Museum
Grant awarded: £6,000
Project: Carmarthenshire Museums branding & website project: Branding and website to make the service visible and drive sustainability by accurately promoting our museums and their unique offer to a wider, engaged audience.
Mae AIM wrth ein bodd i gyhoedd’r amgueddfeydd diweddaraf yng Nghymru sydd yn aelodau i dderbyn cyllid gan Wobrau Hallmarks AIM. Bydd y grantiau hyn yn gwella cynaliadwyedd ariannol aelodau AIM yng Nghymru ac yn darparu cymorth i’w hymddiriedolwyr a’u byrddau.
Croesawyd y newyddion gan Gyfarwyddwr AIM, Emma Chaplin: “O siopau arlein i ddatblygu sgiliau codi arian a chyflwyno brandio newydd, rydym wrth ein bodd i allu cefnogi prosiectau arloesol, wedi eu hysbrydoli gan Hallmarks AIM, ar hyd a lled amgueddfeydd yng Nghymru. Rydym yn ddiolchgar fod Llywodraeth Cymru yn cydnabod bod y gwaith hwn yn gallu cael effaith gadarnhaol a hir dymor ar gydnerthedd ariannol amgueddfeydd.”
Mae Gwobrau Hallmarks AIM yn bosibl gydag diolch i raglen a gynorthwyir gan Lywdoraeth Cymru trwy’r Is-adran Amgueddfeydd, Archifau a Llyfrgelloedd. Bydd ceisiadau ar eu cyfer yn ailagor i aelodau AIM yng Nghymru yn hwyr yn 2019.
Dywedodd Deborah-Anne Wildgust, Curadur Ymddiriedolaeth Amgueddfa Torfaen a oedd yn derbyn Gwobr Hallmarks AIM: “Ar ôl yr holl negyddoldeb a thoriadau ariannol dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf, rydym yn edrych ymlaen yn fawr at fod yn gadarnhaol a chydweithredol o ran mynd ag Ymddiriedolaeth ein Hamgueddfa yn ei blaen. Bydd y grant Hallmarks hwn ar y cyd â Llywodreath Cymru, yn ein helpu yn aruthrol i symud ymlaen gyda pherson proffesiynol hanfodol i gynorthwyo staff presennol a chanolbwyntio ar sefydlu ffyrdd newydd o gynnal ein hincwm a’n dyfodol.”
Amgueddfa Gerflunieth Andrew Logan (ALMoS)
Grant a wobrwywyd: £6,000
Prosiect: Strategaeth Gyfathrebu ALMoS gan alluogi newid ffocws brandio, datblygu dangosyddion perfformiad allweddol (KPIs) a meincnodau, dulliau gweithredu a phrosesau ac i gynyddu mynychwyr / incwm blynyddol
Ymddiriedolaeth Amgueddfa Cwm Cynon
Grant a wobrwywyd: £5,986.57
Prosiect: Diogelu ein Trywydd: Buddsoddi mewn capasiti cynhyrchu incwm CVM drwy gefnogi gwirfoddolwyr, hyfforddiant, staff ac offer cyfalaf.
Amgueddfa ac Oriel Rhaeadr Gwy, CARAD. Celfyddydau Cymunedol Rhaeadr a’r Rhanbarth
Grant a wobrwywyd: £3,850
Prosiect: Mentor a Hyfforddwr Codi Arian: Fel gwirfoddolwyr, gall fod diffyd o sgiliau a hyder i ymgymryd â cheisiadau cyllido mwy. Bydd mentor a hyfforddiant a ariennir gan AIM yn helpu i ddatrys hyn
The Judge’s Lodging
Grant a wobrwywyd: £4,000.00
Prosiect: Diogelu’r Dyfodol – 2019 yw ein blwyddyn golynnol rhwng perchnogaeth awdurdod lleol ac Ymddiriedolaeth annibynnol llwyr. Mae ein cynlluniau yn gofyn am fuddsoddiad mewn codi arian, maes newydd o ddysgu a datblygu.
Ymddiriedolaeth Amgueddfa Torfaen Cyf
Grant a wobrwywyd: £5,440
Prosiect: ‘Cydlynydd ar gyfer Ffrydau Incwm’ : Mae angen arian buddsoddi ar gyfer swydd Cydlynydd proffesiynol er mwyn sefydlu pwynt gwerthu arlein newydd a datblygu Aelodaeth fel ffrydau incwm potensial.
Amgueddfa Sir Gaerfyrddin ac ar rhan Amgueddfa Parc Howard, Amgueddfa Cyflymder, ac Amgueddfa Ddiwydiannol Cidweli
Grant a wobrwywyd: £6,000
Prosiect: Prosiect brandio a gwefan Amgueddfeydd Sir Gaerfyrddin : Brandio a gwefan i wneud y gwasanaeth yn weladwy ac i yrru cynaliadwyedd drwy hyrwyddo ein hamgueddfwydd yn gywir a’u cynigion unigryw i gynulleidfa ehangach ac ymgysylltiedig.
