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Funded Opportunities for Professional Development The next deadline is 23 March 2001. Would you like to spend 3-8 weeks working on a project of your choice at another museum, archive, library or other cultural heritage organisation and exchange ideas, skills, experience, knowledge and build links with another organisation? If so we have funding available for individuals working in UK museums, archives and library special collections to take up secondments in 2001. The funding enables individuals working and volunteering in museums, archives and library special collections to be seconded to another museum, archive, library, or other cultural heritage organisation, to work on project/s which will benefit their professional development and the communities and public the organisations serve. Paid members of staff need to have at least three years experience in the sector and two years in your present post to be eligible for funding and as a volunteer, you need to have been in your present organisation for one year. "My time at the V&A was enlightening, educational and inspirational. I was excited about returning to my post armed with fresh ideas, new skills and plans about how to implement some of what I had learned straight away... My only regret about the scheme is that I cannot do it again..." Antoinette Rawlings, Deputy Curator Keeper of Art seconded from Wiltshire Heritage Museum to the Victoria and Albert Museum. What we offer: * Secondments last for 3-8 weeks, although 6 weeks is the norm. You choose where you want to go and what you want to do. (Secondments must be between UK institutions). * Secondments can be taken in a block or can be split up in a variety of ways to suit the individual. * Grants from £2000 - £6000 are available to individuals to cover costs while they are on secondment such as transportation, accommodation, subsistence, and child care. * The grant includes funding for the seconding organisation to claim between £150 and £300 per week. This is intended as contribution to help them cover the individual's post whilst they are away. * The host organisation can also claim up to £500 for equipment and materials for use during the secondment which will be kept by them afterwards. There are four application rounds left (23 March, 24 May, 27 July and 31 August), but don't wait to the end of the year, we need individuals to demonstrate their interest now! For details of eligibility and further information please contact Catherine Atkinson, Millennium Awards Administrator, 16 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AA, telephone 020 7273 1406, fax: 020 7273 1404 or email [log in to unmask] Secondments are paid for by the Sharing Museum Skills scheme through funding from the Millennium Commission. Sarah Woodward Communications Assistant Resource: The Council for Museums Archives and Libraries 020 7273 1458 [log in to unmask] 16 Queen Anne's Gate London SW1H 9AA http://www.resource.gov.uk Join the Resourcenews mailing list at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/resourcenews.html