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Round 3 AIM Brighter Day grants awarded

The third round of the Brighter Day grants, gratefully funded by the Arts Scholars Charitable Trust, have been awarded by AIM.  In the final round, we received twenty-two a…

Latest AIM Pilgrim Trust grants awarded

We’re pleased to announce the 18 AIM members awarded the latest AIM Pilgrim Trust conservation grants. AIM is grateful to the Pilgrim Trust for funding the grant sche…

LTC Rolt conference at Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust completes catalogue of the papers of LTC Rolt and announces May 2024 conference in partnership with Keele University to mark the 50th anniversary …

First round of Re:Collections Grants awarded

Three museums have been awarded Re:Collections Grants totalling over £54,000. Funded from the Welsh Government Anti-Racist Wales Culture, Heritage, and Sport Fund, Re:Colle…

Get funding to borrow from national collections

Applications to the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund open on 23 October. The funding…

A new way to insure your museum collection

Sotera is an Insurtech start-up that uses AI and a proprietary risk algorithm to evaluate the risk of collections to improve how they are insured. The company was founded by two former archaeologis…

Making a difference with conservation grants

The Pilgrim Trust was delighted to announce its renewed partnership with AIM earlier this year, when we awarded £414,000 towards its popular grant scheme for Collections Care Audits and Re…

A new Collections Significance Toolkit for Welsh Museums

It’s been ten years since Welsh Government published its last collections significance assessment toolkit, ‘Why do we have it? A Significance Process and Template’, and the world is n…

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…

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…

AIM Conference 2024 speaker callout

Can you help? We are looking for contributions to our breakout sessions for next year’s conference at Black Country Living Museum. Always a popular part of the programme, …

The TWA Digitisation Grant is back for 2023

2023 marks the TWA Digitisation Grant’s SIXTH successful year! In that time, it has supported over 110 organisations, offering a total of £108,000 in funding. Last year 31 separate projects were…

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