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NCS is pleased to announce a forthcoming new grant fund aimed at conservation activities not supported by other grant aid organisations. We have established a fund and have pledges from business sponsors who will, if the scheme is successful, commit further annual donations. This includes donations from our projects company under our profit- sharing approach to supporting the non-profit membership organisation. We have entered a partnership with a charity fundraising organisation called CharityCheckout and are in the process of establishing the means by which crowd-funding can be targeted at small to medium scale conservation projects - see https://www.charitycheckout.co.uk/ We will publish soon the range of likely eligible projects that archives, libraries and museums can seek grants to pay for from our general fund. The applicant organisation can nominate a contracting Accredited conservator/Registered practice to carry out the projects within their region where available, or seek to have one identified as a part of the application. This can include local authority-employed conservation services that offer services where contracts are to be tendered. All projects can include digitisation. In addition to using a general fund to support applicant organisations, we wish to set up a mechanism by which your users/readers who wish to access material currently unfit for use can, with your approval as custodian, seek to raise funds through the crowd-funding system to pay for a project. We particularly want to know if archivists or other custodians would welcome such a fund-raising mechanism and if so under what policies or procedures they would be willing to participate in such a scheme. This would be a form of grass-roots 'adopt-a-book' type scheme but one where the user or a user-group raises the funds from other interested users and the wider charitable public, via an NCS/CharityCheckout web-based donations system. Please would readers of this posting please let us know your thoughts, negative or positive, about such a concept and, where positive, whether you would partciapte in a round table meeting to agree a set of criteria for such a scheme. Please either reply to this email or write to [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________ Chris Woods PGDipCons BAhons CertCons RMARA ACR FIIC Director National Conservation Service 21 Albemarle Street Mayfair London W1S 4BS tel: 07495949170 www.ncs.org.uk NCS membership is operated by Nationwide Conservation Service Ltd, a not-for- profit membership company limited by guarantee, registered in England & Wales no. 07077608, VAT reg. 202361951. NCS projects are provided by Conservation Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales no. 6659286 VAT reg. 981696269. Both companies are registered at 21 Albemarle St, Mayfair, London W1S 4BS Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra