The Business Archives Council (BAC) is delighted to announce that again it is offering a cataloguing grant specifically for business archives related to the Arts, and this year the grant has increased to £3000! As before, this grant is in addition to the BAC’s main cataloguing grant for business collections.
The aim of the Arts-grant is to fund the cataloguing of an arts-related business archive collection in either the private or public sector, and to:
• Provide financial support for institutions/businesses that manage business archives related to the arts,
• Reach collections that have not yet been prioritised but have potential academic or socio-historical value,
• Create opportunities for archivists or para-professionals/volunteers to gain experience in listing business collections,
• Make more arts-related business collections accessible.
It is anticipated that the £3000 grant will be used over the equivalent of a six-week period to fund an archive intern or temporary staff member (under professional supervision) to catalogue a discrete collection of business records. This can either be a detailed catalogue of a small collection or a top-level catalogue of a more substantial collection. Grant recipients should provide the BAC with the completed catalogue and a report and the catalogue should be made available to The National Archives’ DISCOVERY database.
We welcome applications from a range of organisations including (but not limited to) businesses, local record offices, universities, museums, charities, specialised repositories and other organisations that hold business archives of Arts-related organisations, for example: theatre/film/dance/music/animation companies, art galleries, publishing houses, production companies, photographic/sound recording studios, festivals, heritage companies, tourist attractions etc.
The winner of last year’s grant was a joint bid from Spike Island Artspace Ltd and The Bristol Record Office. Previous applicants are welcome to re-apply. Please note that the BAC would not normally award a grant to the same institution within three years.
For more information criteria and application form see the BAC’s website at www.businessarchivescouncil.org.uk. The grant opened on 30th April 2015 and the deadline for applications is 30th July 2015.
Any questions about the grant should be addressed to Ben White, Administrator, Business Archives Council Cataloguing Grants (2015), at:
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