Archiving the Arts

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Archiving the Arts 16 September 2014 Manchester
Central Library Elise Turner Development
Officer, North West Heritage Lottery Fund
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Outcomes A lasting difference for heritage and
people

• We describe the differences that we want to make
  to heritage, people and communities as
  Outcomes
• There are 14 in total, however your project does
  not need to contribute towards them all
• We will consider how well your project will
  achieve these Outcomes, which means that
  contributing towards more will not necessarily
  make your application stronger

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• Outcomes for heritage
• better managed
• in better condition
• better interpreted and explained
• identified/recorded
• Outcomes for people
• developed skills
• learnt about heritage
• changed attitudes or behaviour
• had an enjoyable experience
• volunteered time
• Outcomes for communities
• environmental impacts reduced
• more / wider range of people engaged with
  heritage
• local community a better place to live, work or
  visit
• economy boosted
• organisation more resilient

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• Who Can Apply?
• Public or not-for-profit organisations such as
• Community or voluntary groups
• Local authorities
• Other public sector organisations
• Parish Councils
• Charities
• All organisations must have a constitution / set
  of rules and a bank account
• However, private owners for for-profit
  organisations can now apply under Our Heritage
  scheme providing Public Benefit outweighs Private
  Gain

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Main Grant Schemes

• Sharing Heritage (3,000 to 10,000)
• First World War Then and Now (3,000 to
  10,000)
• Our Heritage (10,000 to 100,000)
• Young Roots (10,000 to 50,000, aimed at young
  people aged 11 25)
• Start-Up Grants (3,000 to 10,000)
• Heritage Grants (10,000)

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Archive Specific Points

• Work to archives, including cataloguing
  digitisation can be funded
• How and where will the original source material
  be conserved after the project?
• How can you demonstrate that the original
  material is at risk of degradation or loss?
• Is your archive PD 5454 compatible? If not, can
  you demonstrate that the environmental conditions
  are suitable for the long term care of your
  collection?
• Training and volunteers are important we can
  support skills development (e.g. object handling,
  digitisation, conservation, exhibition design,
  cataloguing)
• All archive projects must include activities
  allowing the wider public to engage with the
  archive in some way

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Think about .

• How will you select items for digitisation and
  what kind of project material will most help you
  to meet the aims of your project?
• Have you considered themes, subject and formats
  that will suit or target your project audience?
  What activities / resources will engage them?
• How will your archive material be accessible in
  the long term and how will you preserve it?

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Purchase of Items

• HLF can support acquisitions of heritage items
  and collections
• Purchase alone is not enough for a project
• We will not support acquisitions that are above
  market value. Independent valuation is required
• Urgent acquisitions are possible with a single
  Heritage Grant round, but you would need to
  demonstrate how the item will be integrated into
  existing learning programmes

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When assessing applications we consider the
following

• What is the heritage focus of the project?
• What is the need or opportunity that the project
  is responding to?
• Why does the project need to go ahead now and why
  is Lottery funding needed?
• What outcomes will the project achieve?
• Does the project offer value for money?
• Is the project will planned and financially
  realistic?
• What is the legacy of the project?

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What can we fund?

• Displays, interpretation, exhibitions
• Costs of running activities
• Learning materials
• Equipment
• Facilities, room hire etc.
• Research and creating records
• Publicity and marketing
• Additional staff costs
• Building repairs and preservation works
• Storage of records or collections
• Professional fees

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Sharing Heritage

• Grants 3,000 - 10,000
• Easy access for small groups
• Can include capital works
• Min. 1 outcome for people
• Projects last up to 1 year
• Not-for-profit applicants
• Very light touch assessment
• Single payment in advance
• No deadlines

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First World War Then and Now

• Grants 3,000 - 10,000
• Easy access for small groups
• Can include capital works including work to
  memorials
• Min. 1 outcome for people
• Projects last up to 2 year
• Not-for-profit applicants
• Very light touch assessment
• Single payment in advance
• No deadlines

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Title Looking at Wilfred Owens view of life in
the trenches Applicant Wythenshawe Community
Housing Group Grant Awarded 10,000

• FWW poet Wilfred Owen who was killed in action a
  week before Armistice Day and awarded Military
  Cross
• Applicant worked in partnership with Archives
• Young people from the Groups networks carried
  out research at a number of different archives
  visited exhibitions about other war poets
• Intergenerational QAs with older people to
  explore memories of their family members who
  fought (recorded for local community radio)
• Write own poems
• Create exhibition at Manchester Central Library,
  as well as website, newsletters and education
  pack

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Our Heritage

• Grants 10,000 - 100,000
• Helping communities to discover, celebrate, share
  and take care of their heritage
• Projects last up to 3 years in practice
• Minimum of two outcomes (1 from heritage, 1 from
  people)
• 8 week assessment
• No minimum match funding
• 50 of grant up paid up front
• No deadlines

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• Title Manchester Chinese Archive
• Applicant Manchester Chinese Centre
• Programme Our Heritage
• Grant Awarded 48,900
• Manchesters Chinese community numbers over
  40,000, but there is little awareness of its
  heritage
• Project to create new archive
• Worked with over 40 local volunteers from a range
  of communities (Jewish, Malaysian, Vietnamese)
• Carried out 55 oral history interviews with local
  Chinese people
• Catalogued 86 boxes of material donated by
  Chinese community digitised 11,000 documents!
• Other activities included radio interviews,
  educational resources and an exhibition

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Title Hidden HistoriesApplicant Lancashire
LGBT CentreAwarded 49,900

• The heritage focus is memories and experiences
  from the 1950s and 60s of older LGBT living in
  Burnley, as well as exploring how the legal and
  cultural changes of the 20th century affected
  them.
• Carrying out a range oral history interviews for
  people to share their experiences, working with
  NWSA
• Extensive archival research (in Lancashire
  London) to tell the story before that in living
  memory. This includes police court records and
  hospital records
• Created website and App for a walking heritage
  trail around Burnley
• Exhibition, DVD and booklet

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Young Roots

• Engage young people 11-25 years in their heritage
• Stem from the ideas and interests of young people
• Partnership between youth and heritage groups
• Led by a not-for-profit organization
• Grants 10,000 - 50,000
• Projects last up to 2 years
• No deadlines
• 8 week assessment
• 6 outcomes

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Title From Baden Powell to MorrisseyApplicant
Salford Lads and Girls ClubGrant Awarded
25,000

• Club founded in 1904 by Baden Powell of Boy Scout
  fame
• Achieved fame through numerous TV appearances and
  featuring on a Smiths album cover
• The club has held every single membership card
  since it opened, as well as a range of other
  documents and records
• Around 40 young people gained a variety of new
  skills to allow them to
• Digitise archive of membership cards other
  photos, documents and memorabilia
• Create an exhibition to tell the clubs story

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Title The Black Knight and the Gorse Hall
MurderApplicant Tameside Museum Galleries
ServiceGrant Awarded 22,000

• Two historical characters from Tameside - The
  Black Knight (Sir Ralph de Assheton) who lived
  during the 15th century, and George Storrs,
  murdered at Gorse Hall in 1909.
• Part of Manga Group (Japanese comic art and
  animation), including young people with autism,
  homeless and/or registered as vulnerable
• Spent a lot of time at Local Studies Archive
  Centre, visits to other relevant archives
  museums
• Workshops incl. costume design, time-lapse
  photography and comic-strip drawing
• Create exhibition and comic book

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Heritage Grants

• Grants over 100,000
• Projects last up to 5 years
• Capital projects with activities OR activity-only
  projects
• Decision by NW Committee (100,000 to 2m)
• Decision by Trustees (2m )
• 2 round application process
• Minimum of three outcomes (one from each heading)

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Project Patterns of Migration Applicant
Re-tracing SalfordGrant 161,800

• Preserve large-scale photo archive created by a
  photographic studio in Cheetham Hill
• Focusing specifically on 50s 60s
• Use images as starting point for researching
  social history of the area
• Restore digitise images
• Creative workshops with schools, textile art
  project, oral histories, exhibitions, archive
  courses, family fun events
• Creating training films around archiving

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Title Alfred Wainwright ArchiveApplicant
Cumbria Archive Service Awarded 184,200

• Acquisition of collection of personal papers,
  drawings, sketches other items relating to
  Wainwright (around 10,000 items) from Wainwright
  family
• Cleaned, repackaged and catalogued, with elements
  digitised
• Learning activities including e-learning pack,
  loan boxes, workshops for teachers etc.
• Teachers identified boys being able to identify
  with the archive
• Partnership working incl. Mountain Heritage
  Trust, Kendal Museum Local Studies Libraries,
  LDNPA
• Create mobile exhibition and programme of talks
  and events

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Project enquiry service

• Separate from assessment
• Initial project outline
• HLF development team provide response
• Form is a starting point for discussion

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• Contact details
• Heritage Lottery Fund
• Carvers Warehouse
• 77 Dale Street
• Manchester
• M1 2HG
• Tel [phone]
• northwest_at_hlf.org.uk
• www.hlf.org.uk
• _at_heritagelottery

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