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Latest AIM Pilgrim Trust grant awards

We were thrilled to receive 45 applications in the AIM Pilgrim Trust spring grant round. The panel had some tough decisions to make, with 17 applications to the audit scheme, 15 for collections ca…

Trustee vacancy – Cornwall Museums Partnership

Update 6 September: CMP is excited to be currently engaged in a range of activity supported by Arts Council England’s Transition Programme. This is enabling us to review our c…

Heritage Open Days 2023

Heritage Open Days Registration Deadline Approaching!  England’s biggest festival of history and culture returns this September with thousands of events already registere…

Trustee vacancy – Whitchurch Silk Mill

Whitchurch Silk Mill Trust aims to maintain a board of trustees with a wide range of skills and experience and has two new vacancies. Trustee with a legal background…

Trustee vacancy – Chair – Port Sunlight Village Trust

PSVT is searching for a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills to lead the transformation of the organisation, helping to realise our ambition for Port Sunlight to be an inspiring place…

Trustee vacancy – Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s trading subsidiary company (SBT Trading Limited/SBTT Ltd) is recruiting 2-3 new Independent Directors to oversee its commercial activities. The Shakespea…

Energy Bills Discount Scheme – deadline to apply 25 July

Energy Bills Discount Scheme – deadline to apply for the Additional Energy and Trade Intensive Industries (ETII) discount is 25 July. The Department for Energy Securit…

Kerb appeal

The phrase “Kerb appeal” is not something one immediately relates to museums and insurance! But the phrase can be a useful umbrella term to thinking about the outside of your museum and how to …

Heritage sector calls for all political parties to put the past at the heart of their plans for the future

New Heritage Manifesto includes VAT cuts on repair, disincentives for demolition and a new National Retrofit Strategy to meet net zero Ahead of the next UK general election,…

Cylchlythyr Ymddiriedolwyr AIM Gorffennaf 2023

AIM Higher Boed yn adolygu arfer da sylfaenol neu yn delio gyda heriau cymhleth, mae ein rhaglen gymorth llywodraethu AIM Higher (yr enw newydd i Prospering Boards) yn cynni…

Trustee vacancy – Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum

The Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum is seeking to recruit several trustees.  We are looking for someone to work with the Chief Executive to develop and implement the Museum’s policies and procedure…

Trustee vacancy – St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery

Become a Trustee of St Barbe Museum + Art Gallery Help us achieve our ambition to become one of the most respected small museums and art galleries in the UK, inspiring the c…

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