A small grant can help fix foundations, stabilise and protect precious artefacts, pay for condition surveys or expert reports. A small grant can be the vital first step towards unlocking further funding. In the last quarter we are delighted to have awarded over £47,000 in smaller grants to eleven organisations across the UK.
All Saints’ Episcopal Church – £5,000
To conserve and restore a rare and historically significant 1923 passion flower vestment, set for liturgical use on special occasions.
Cambridge Past, Present and Future – £4,900
Towards urgent brickworks repair of grade II listed Hinxton Watermill, one of the last operational watermills in Cambridgeshire.
The Carriage Foundation – £3,500
To investigate carriage decoration using heritage science and artisanal methods with particular reference to two unique eighteenth- century horse-drawn vehicles – a Landau and Post-Phaeton – made for John Baskerville.
Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society – £3,000
Towards the conservation and public display of a complete ichthyosaur fossil skeleton, thought to have been discovered by Mary Anning in Lyme Regis in the early 19th century.
Gloucester Civic Trust – £3,200
Condition assessment of the at risk 16th century domestic wall-paintings in the Tudor ‘Folk of Gloucester’ heritage community hub building.
The Hepworth Wakefield – £4,600
Conservation work to one of Hepworth’s few sculptures with a surviving ‘original’ white painted surface and the only 1960s wood carving of hers in the collection. Once ‘Two Forms with White (Greek) (1963)’ is stabilised and protected, it will go back on permanent display.
London Borough of Waltham Forest – £4,750
To conserve fragile key works on paper by May Morris and design drawings by William Morris from the 1870s and 1880s, for public display for the first time in the William Morris Gallery.
St Patrick’s RC Church – £4,850
Pipe organ pedal division restoration to James Bruce’s 1835 Grade II listed organ, making it fully playable again.
Thread and Butter Collective – £4,500
Essential surveys and technical plans to inform the conservation work and repairs needed to develop the Grade II listed, rare surviving mid-19th century Weaving Shed at Woodend Mill.
Tregargus Trust – £5,000
To preserve and stabilise the machinery and waterwheel of Chapel Mill, the most complete surviving clay stone mill in the country.
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust – £4,500
Conservation of William Morris Bird Hangings from the Barn Close Collection, enabling Morris’ full decorative scheme for the parlour at Barn Close to be publicly displayed for the first time.
Feature image: Hinxton Watermill, courtesy: Cambridge Past, Present and Future