Arts Derbyshire

18.07.2025

Grant Funding: The Association of Independent Museums Have Opened Their Collections Care and Conservation Grants To Ensure Collections Care and Conservation Meets Professional Standards

AIM are grateful to the Pilgrim Trust for funding their grant scheme for a further three years from 2023-2025. In 2025 funding for collections care and remedial conservation projects will be offered through the Museum Fundamentals grant.

Closing date: Autumn round 5pm Friday 26 September 2025.

Eligibility: AIM members with fewer than 50,000 visitors a year – small and medium museums.

Grant award: £1,200 for a Collections Care Audit. In 2025 funding for collections care and remedial conservation projects will be offered through the Museum Fundamentals grant.

AIM members care for a significant range of historic objects and collections. The funding from the Pilgrim Trust supports small to medium sized museums to care for those collections effectively and efficiently, and to meet the standards required for Accreditation.

Larger museums are encouraged to apply for funding to the Pilgrim Trust directly.

The funding enables museums to bring in conservation expertise to ensure that collections care and conservation meets professional standards, and has the most impact on the organisation, its collections, and their visitors. In 2025 funding for collections care and remedial conservation projects will be offered through the Museum Fundamentals grant.

Eligibility criteria:

  • AIM membership
  • UK registered charity or,
  • An organisation with exempt charitable status or,
  • A recognised public body i.e. Local Authority Museum
  • Small or Medium sized museum (fewer than 50,000 visitors p.a.).

Deadline: 26 September 2025

Grants/Funds up to: £1,200

How to Apply: https://aim-museums.co.uk/grants/collections-care-and-conservation-grants/

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