THE NATIONAL MANUSCRIPTS CONSERVATION TRUST
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust (NMCT) invites applications for
funding for preservation and conservation projects involving manuscript
material. If your institution is a record office, library or another
publicly funded body like a local authority, university or specialist record
repository you may be eligible for support by the Trust. We offer funding to
cover the cost of the repair, binding and other preservation measures
including reprography, of manuscript material.
The Trust will award up to 50% of a project's cost, and the applicant needs
to provide matching funding. This can be in the form of an eligible in-kind
contribution as well as cash. Grants range from £1,000 to £30,000 and the
Trust is keen to emphasise that applicants can use NMCT grants as part of
their matching funding for bids to other funding bodies like the Heritage
Lottery Fund.
Grants awarded in 2001 included £20,936 to Berkeley Castle to complete the
conservation and microfilming of the Berkeley Castle muniments, £2,500 to
the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to conserve their archives, £11,000 to
Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service towards the project to
conserve the Staffordshire Tithe maps, and £12,500 to the University of
Nottingham Library towards the conservation of the Wollaton Antiphonal.
Closing dates for applications are 1 April and 1 October. For further
information and for a copy of the application form, contact Alison Walker,
the Trust's secretary at the National Preservation Office, The British
Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Tel: 020 7412 7798 Fax: 020 7412
7796 Email: [log in to unmask] The application form is also available on
the NPO's website at http://www.bl.uk/npo/
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