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Funded Opportunities for Professional Development 

How many opportunities for professional development exist in your career?

How many are funded?

How many last from 3-8 weeks?

How many contribute financially to your employer to help them cover your
post while you're away?

How many allow you to choose where you want to go and what you want to do?


Secondments for individuals working and volunteering in Library Special
Collections, Archives and Museums

The penultimate deadline is 27 July 2001

We have funding available for individuals working in museums, archives and
library special collections to take up secondments in 2001.  The funding is
intended to enable individuals working and volunteering to go to another
museum, archive, library special collection, or other cultural heritage
organisation, to work on project/s as an opportunity for their professional
development and to benefit the communities and public the organisations
serve.  

To be eligible you must be working in the UK as a volunteer or a paid member
of staff.  As a paid member of staff you will normally need to have at least
three years experience in the sector and two years in your present post.  As
a volunteer, you will need to have been in your present organisation for one
year.  All secondment must be taken at UK organisations.


What we offer:

*       Secondments for 3-8 weeks.  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. We also will pay for seminars and short courses
when they are applicable to the secondment.

*       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 while they are away.
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*       The host organisation can also claim up to £500 for equipment for
use during the secondment which is kept by them afterwards.

There are 2 more application rounds (27 July and 31 August), but don't wait
to the end of the year.  All secondments must be completed by 1 February
2002!

For details of eligibility and further information please contact Catherine
Atkinson, Millennium Awards Administrator, Sharing Museum Skills, 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.  Visit the website at
http://www.smsma.org.uk


Further information about Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and
Libraries can be found at http://www.resource.gov.uk




Emma Wright
Press Officer
Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
16 Queen Anne's Gate
London  SW1H 9AA
Tel: 020 7273 1459 - directline
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: www.resource.gov.uk
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