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Funding Sources
There are many different organisations who provide different kinds of funding and fundraising advice for libraries, archives, museums and other organisations with collections. The following listing provides links to some of the most popular:
The Charities Information Bureau
The Charities Information Bureau provides advice to community and voluntary groups and gives listing of funding sources from Government, the Lottery, European Community, Trust, Banks and Building Societies and High Street Stores. Visit the Charities Information Bureau website at http://www.cibfunding.org.uk/index.htm
Funder Finder
Funder Finder develops and distributes software to help individuals and not-for-profit organisations in the UK to identify charitable trusts that might give them money.
It also produces general information and an advice pack on aspects of funding and fund-raising both of which are accessible on line, visit the website for more information http://www.funderfinder.org.uk/index.php
Arts Council England
Arts Council England produces an information sheet providing links to some of the main sources of grants and funding for the arts in the UK. The information sheet includes information which has a wider impact for the museums, libraries and archives domains and can be downloaded from the ACE website at http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
The National Lottery
For information about all relevant grant programmes funded via the National Lottery contact the following:
Awards for All
Awards for All is a Lottery grants programme aimed at local communities
www.awardsforall.org.uk
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery
www.artscouncil.org.uk
Big Lottery Fund
The Big Lottery Fund is committed to improving communities and the lives of people most in need
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund uses money from the National Lottery to give grants for a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom.
www.hlf.org.uk
NESTA
NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) investing in innovators and working to improve the climate for creativity in the UK
www.nesta.org.uk
