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Arts Council National Lottery Development Funds: Subject Specialist Networks Project Funding 2018-20 Guidance for applicants The below is an outline summary of key information. Please see Section three for
full eligibility criteria.
Summary of key information
What is the focus of the fund?
Subject Specialist Networks exist to
develop the museum sector’s curatorial
knowledge by capturing and sharing
expertise associated with collections in
a sustainable way. This fund will
support Subject Specialist Networks to
develop, maintain and share expertise
associated with specialist collections
alongside their contribution to public
engagement, education and enjoyment.
We will expect applications to
anticipate and adapt to economic,
environmental and social change by
seizing opportunities, identifying and
mitigating risks, and deploying
resources effectively in order to
continue delivering work in line with
the applicant’s mission. This includes
thinking about and planning for
organisational performance, financial
and environmental sustainability, the
skills and knowledge of the workforce,
as well as equality and diversity.
Who can apply?
We will accept applications from the
following:
• Subject Specialist Networks
which are already recognised by
Arts Council England.
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These networks have been
identified as supporting major
collection areas and they revolve
around a subject specialism and
are drawn from established
professional membership bodies,
or less defined networks of
museums. These networks help
to develop the knowledge and
expertise associated with
specialist collections. They act as
a democratic forum for the
sharing of expertise, research,
mentoring and developing best
practice.
Please see Appendix A for the full
list of currently recognised
Subject Specialist Networks.
• Applications from a consortium
of recognised networks working
together. One organisation must
act as the lead organisation and
submit the application.
• Applications from new networks,
or proposed networks which
meet the following criteria:
- The network is focussed on a
particular collection type not
covered by another network
- There is clear and robust
evidence of the need for the
network
- There is satisfactory evidence of
support from members or
proposed members and their
host institutions
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- The application is made through
a lead applicant who is either a
formally constituted organisation
with a track record in delivering
services to the museum sector or
an Accredited museum on the
network’s behalf
Applicants applying as a new network
must have a mandatory conversation
with the Manager, Collections
Management and Designation, Arts
Council England about their proposal
and their eligibility for the fund prior to
submission.
All lead applicants must be either
a formally constituted
organisation with a track record
in delivering services to the
museum sector or an Accredited
museum.
When is the deadline for
applications?
12pm (midday) on Thursday 23
August 2018
How much can be applied for per
application?
Between £10,000 – £80,000
When must the activity take
place?
Activities must start no earlier than 1
January 2019
Activities must end no later than 30
June 2020
Minimum match funding from
other sources
10% of total project budget. This can
include in kind support.
When will we make our
decision?
We will aim to notify applicants of our
decision no later than 7 December 2018
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Contents
Section one – introduction .................................................................. 5
Welcome ........................................................................................... 5
Background ......................................................................................... 5
About Arts Council England .............................................................. 6
About Arts Council England’s Development funds 2018-22 ............... 6
Section two – purpose of Subject Specialist Networks ......................... 8
Aims and outcomes ............................................................................. 8
How much funding is available? ........................................................ 9
Section three – eligibility .................................................................... 10
Consortia and partnership agreements ............................................ 14
Section four – what you will be expected to deliver ............................. 15
Section five – how to apply ................................................................. 17
Talking to us about your application – the ‘mandatory conversation’
for new networks interested in applying ........................................... 17
Making an application ...................................................................... 18
When to apply .................................................................................. 18
Making an application ...................................................................... 18
Assistance with your application ..................................................... 20
After you submit your application ................................................... 20
Section seven – Freedom of Information Act ...................................... 25
Section eight – Data Protection ......................................................... 26
Contact us ......................................................................................... 26
Appendix A – Arts Council England recognised Subject Specialist
Networks as of July 2018 .................................................................... 27
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Section one – introduction
Welcome Thank you for your interest in Subject Specialist Networks 2018-20.
Background
Subject Specialist Networks exist to develop the museum sector’s curatorial
knowledge by capturing and sharing expertise associated with collections in a
sustainable way.
Arts Council England supports Subject Specialist Networks in order to meet our
own strategic aims around enabling all museums staff to have the required skills to
proactively develop, care for and also maximise public engagement with their
collections. This underpins Arts Council England’s Goal 3 and Goal 4 and this is
further explored in Section two and Section four.
The importance of maintaining and developing Subject Specialist Networks was
highlighted in the recent Mendoza Review and they are also central to the Art
Fund’s ‘21st Century curator’ report which looks at the evolving role of the UK
museum curator and their future needs. The Mendoza Review highlighted that
museums are struggling to make best use of their collections and to maintain
sufficient curatorial expertise with the result that many collections are considered
to be too static and underused. During 2018-2020 we will be re-thinking how best
to support Subject Specialist Networks in the context of the Mendoza Review
implementation and our work with NMDC and DCMS to develop a framework for
museum partnerships and our new 10-year strategy.
The strength of Subject Specialist Networks lies in their place to act as a conduit to
curatorial knowledge. They act as a recognised forum for the sharing of expertise,
research, mentoring and the development of best practice across and beyond the
sector. Sustainable Subject Specialist Networks are alert to the needs of network
users and provide and maintain tools for knowledge exchange such as an accessible
web platform to share ideas, issues and debate which will strengthen expertise
across the museum sector. This enables networks to connect to the widest pool of
knowledge and expertise, which will not always exist within the museum sector but
may be levered in from academia, practitioners working across the subject area
itself or a wider expert forum.
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This current funding opportunity will support Subject Specialist Networks in their
key role of equipping museum staff with sufficient subject expertise to confidently
and effectively curate museum collections so that they can deliver high quality
cultural experiences, create interesting and insightful narratives for users and
contribute to new avenues of academic enquiry and research around material
culture.
Subject Specialist Networks are either charitable bodies in their own right or are
less formal networks managed by a host museum, which have a mission statement
and a defined purpose as a Subject Specialist Network. They also have a
governance structure, such as a committee or board. Host museums are often
nationally funded museums or an Arts Council England National Portfolio
Organisation.
About Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development body for arts and culture across
England, working to enrich people’s lives. We support a range of activities across
the arts, museums and libraries – from theatre to visual art, reading to dance,
music to literature, and crafts to collections. Great art and culture inspires us,
brings us together and teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. In
short, it makes life better. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of
public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National
Lottery to help create these experiences for as many people as possible across the
country. www.artscouncil.org.uk
About Arts Council England’s Development funds 2018-22
Our Development funds help us to target particular challenges, opportunities or
gaps, creating the environment for further development to take place in the arts
and culture sector. Ultimately, they help us meet the goals set out in our strategy,
Great art and culture for everyone. Our goals, for reference, are as follows:
Goal 1: Excellence is thriving and celebrated in the arts, museums and
libraries
Goal 2: Everyone has the opportunity to experience and be inspired by the
arts, museums and libraries
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Goal 3: The arts, museums and libraries are resilient and environmentally
sustainable
Goal 4: The leadership and workforce in the arts, museums and libraries
are diverse and appropriately skilled
Goal 5: Every child and young person has the opportunity to experience the
richness of the arts, museums and libraries
All of these goals are important, but the Subject Specialist Network
Fund will prioritise applications that respond to Goal 3 and Goal 4.
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Section two – purpose of Subject Specialist Networks
Aims and outcomes
The central aims of this fund will support Subject Specialist Networks to:
• Build confidence in the museum sector in relation to dynamic collections
management and increased public engagement by sharing subject
specialist knowledge
• Contribute towards ensuring that staff working with collections have the
opportunity to develop and improve specialist subject knowledge
• Support the museum sector to develop and share curatorial knowledge
around given subject areas
• Enable the museums sector as a whole to develop new curatorial
knowledge around specialist subject areas
Subject Specialist Networks have a significant role to play in relation to meeting
our aims around dynamic collections curation and management, particularly when
museum staff need to make complex curatorial decisions around collections
management and require the back-up of peer expertise. We recognise the huge
responsibility that collections management and engagement represents and the
necessity of having access to expert knowledge for curatorial work, which is not
always available in-house. The sharing of ideas and techniques learnt by
experience of practice and study makes a crucial contribution to this work.
We expect that your project will have a primary emphasis on Goals 3 and 4. Whilst
we are not prescriptive about what we will fund, examples of the types of activity
that could be supported through Subject Specialist Network funding are listed in
Section four.
We also believe that Subject Specialist Networks should be able to grow organically
and respond flexibly to the needs of the specialist subject to which they relate. We
do not want to fund projects which merely support the Subject Specialist Network’s
existence and we wish to prioritise projects which can evidence how they will deal
with particular opportunities and challenges facing the subject area and which
focus on activity which will develop and sustain curatorial knowledge exchanges
into the future. We also expect proposals to have identifiable outcomes directly
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benefitting the specialist subject area in question and which explain why the
network applicant is best placed to lead this project.
Benefits of the proposed activity should not be solely confined to the network’s
membership. Funded activity must ultimately contribute to the core mission of
museums to provide appropriate collections development and care and effective
public engagement.
How much funding is available?
The total budget available for this fund is £700,000. It is drawn from the Arts
Council’s National Lottery funding.
Awards will be between £10,000 and £80,000.
We will accept applications for funding from organisations listed in Appendix A of
this guidance document, or, applications from new networks which can meet the
criteria set out in Section 3 and have had a mandatory conversation with the
Manager, Collections Management and Designation, Arts Council England. We will
also accept applications for funding from organisations working in a consortium.
One organisation must act as the lead organisation and submit the application.
Geographical focus of the fund
The geographical focus is designed to support Arts Council's intent to ensure that a
minimum of 75% of our Lottery funding is spent outside London. See the balancing
criteria for more information.
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Section three – eligibility
Please read the eligibility requirements for the fund carefully. If you do not meet
any of these requirements we will be unable to consider your application for
funding.
Who can apply?
We will accept applications from the following:
• Subject Specialist Networks which are
already recognised by Arts Council England.
These networks have been identified as
supporting major collection areas and they
revolve around a subject specialism and
are drawn from established professional
membership bodies, or less defined
networks of museums. These networks help
to develop the knowledge and expertise
associated with specialist collections. They
act as a democratic forum for the sharing
of expertise, research, mentoring and
developing best practice.
Please see Appendix A for the full list of
currently recognised Subject Specialist
Networks.
• Applications from a consortium of
recognised networks working together. One
organisation must act as the lead
organisation and submit the application.
• Applications from new networks, or
proposed networks which meet the
following criteria:
- The network is focussed on a particular
collection type not covered by another
network
- There is clear and robust evidence of the
need for the network
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- There is satisfactory evidence of support
from members or proposed members and
their host institutions
- The application is made through a lead
applicant who is either a formally
constituted organisation with a track record
in delivering services to the museum sector
or an Accredited museum on the network’s
behalf
Applicants applying as a new network must have a
mandatory conversation with the Manager,
Collections Management and Designation, Arts
Council England about their proposal and their
eligibility for the fund prior to submission.
All lead applicants must be either a
formally constituted organisation with a
track record in delivering services to the
museum sector or an Accredited museum.
Who cannot apply?
• Individuals
• Applicants that are not already on our
recognised list of Subject Specialist
Networks, unless they are a new network
who meet the requirements as set out above
and have had a mandatory conversation
with the Manager, Collections Management
and Designation, Arts Council England
prior to submission
• Organisations based outside of England
What activity can be
supported?
We expect that your project will have a primary
emphasis on Goals 3 and 4. Whilst we are not
prescriptive about what we will fund, examples of
the types of activity that could be supported
through Subject Specialist Network funding are:
• Developing best practice guidance
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• Developing downloadable collections
expertise, resources and tools
• Publishing new research around the subject
area
• Developing subject-focused advocacy
materials for museum staff
• Skills development opportunities
• Leadership development around the subject
area
• Fellowships and bursaries
• Emerging curators initiatives
• Seminars with a continued professional
development focus
What activity cannot be
funded?
In general, we will not support the following
expenditure:
• Collection purchase or acquisition
• Collections work with no explicit public benefit
in the longer term
• Activities that will not benefit the regional
museums sector in England
• Activities that duplicate work that already exists
• General running costs and overheads that are
already paid for by other income, including your
own funds
• Ongoing overheads relating to equipment or
buildings, such as insurance and maintenance
costs
• Activities that do not benefit or engage people
working with museum collections in England or
that do not help curators and museums staff to
carry out their work
• Activities (including buying goods or services)
that have started, been bought, ordered or
contracted before we make a decision about
your application. This is because we cannot fund
activity retrospectively
• Costs that are already paid for by other income
including your own funds or any other funding
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How much can be
applied for per
application?
• Between £10,000 and £80,000
How much match
funding from sources
other than ACE is
required?
• At least 10 per cent of the total cost of the
activity to come from sources other than the
Arts Council. This can include cash and in
kind support
Delivery timetable • Activities must start no earlier than 1
January 2019
• Activities must end no later than 30 June
2020
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Consortia and partnership agreements
We will accept applications for funding from recognised Subject Specialist
Networks working as a consortium. One organisation must act as the lead
organisation and submit the application.
All partners within the consortium must show a firm commitment to joint working.
Your application must show the benefits and rationale of working as a consortium.
If we decide to fund your project we will enter into a legally binding grant
agreement with the lead organisation. This organisation must accept our terms and
conditions of grant and will be solely accountable to us for all monitoring
information, how all the money is spent and for the full and successful delivery of
the project.
One of our standard terms and conditions of grant is that the organisation we enter
into a grant agreement with cannot subcontract any of the project to other
organisations without our prior agreement in writing. So if we award a grant, before
the project can start, we must approve a partnership agreement between the lead
organisation and the other partners involved in the project.
There is further guidance about Partnership agreements on our website.
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Section four – what you will be expected to deliver
We welcome applications that will make a contribution to achieving the aims and
outcomes outlined in Section two above.
We expect that your project will have a primary emphasis on Goals 3 and 4. Whilst
we are not prescriptive about what we will fund, examples of the types of activity
that could be supported through Subject Specialist Network funding are as follows:
Activity responding to Goal 3:
• Updating existing curatorial guidelines or developing new best practice
guidelines in subject areas
• Developing accessible collections advice resources and tools which can be
made available on a sustained basis
• Publishing new research around the subject area
• Developing subject-focused advocacy materials for museum staff
• Convening seminars and conferences in the subject matter
• Delivering expert-led training courses in a variety of accessible formats
• Undertaking collections research which will be of benefit to museums
working within the relevant subject matter
• Gathering research data around identified collections areas for the use and
benefit of the whole museum sector
Activity responding to Goal 4:
• Providing skills development opportunities for curatorial staff to develop
expertise or develop emerging curators initiatives
• Provide leadership development around the subject area
• Fellowships, bursaries and mentoring schemes in relation to developing
curatorial subject knowledge
• Emerging curators initiatives
• Providing leadership development and the creation of fairer entry and
progression routes, as well as more diverse leadership and governance that
reflects the diversity of society as whole
In relation to projects offering training, applicants are strongly encouraged to
think about knowledge exchange models which offer a variety of support
mechanisms to ensure that the widest possible constituency of museum staff are
supported in the longer term.
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Each grant recipient will be expected to build in capacity to evaluate impact. Grant
recipients will be encouraged to self-audit against an agreed framework to assess
their age friendliness before and after the activity supported by the grant.
Grant recipients will also be asked to write a public facing version of their final
report and to describe the impact of their activity and lessons learned.
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Section five – how to apply
Talking to us about your application – the ‘mandatory conversation’ for
new networks interested in applying
If you are a new network, once you have read the guidance and started to think
about your application, you must speak to the Manager, Collections Management
and Designation, Arts Council England about your proposal in detail. We use the
term ‘mandatory conversation’ to describe this scheduled, structured conversation,
which often takes place by telephone. The purpose of the mandatory conversation
is to ensure that new networks have fully considered all of the criteria and
requirements of the fund before submitting an application.
You must have this mandatory conversation before submitting your application for
Subject Specialist Network funding. The deadline for mandatory conversations to
have taken place is Thursday 2 August 2018. Please contact our Customer
Services team to find out more about this.
We will arrange a time to speak with you. As a general guide, we would aim to
cover the following points:
• How is the network constituted or hosted?
• What is the remit of the network and how has this been formalised?
• What evidence has been gathered to demonstrate the need for this network?
• What will be its governance structure?
• How does the network currently communicate with colleagues working with
collections relating to the specialist subject in question?
• How will the network finances be managed?
Once you have had this conversation with the designated member of staff, we will
send you an email to confirm that the mandatory conversation has been
completed. You can then submit your application at any time, uploading a copy of
the email we have sent you as supporting information (see the Attachments section
of the online application form for instructions on where to do this).
We will not be able to read or provide written comment on draft applications.
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It is your responsibility to develop and write the application, including what you
feel to be all the relevant information. We will talk with all potential new networks
but cannot guarantee success for any applicant.
Making an application
When to apply
The online application form will open on Grantium at 12pm (midday)
Thursday 12 July 2018. Applications must be submitted by 12pm (midday)
on Thursday 23 August 2018. Applications submitted after this time will not
be considered.
Before you can start an application, you need to create a user account and
applicant profile. You cannot start your eligibility questionnaire or application
until we have approved your new applicant profile, which may take up to ten
working days from when you submit to us.
For a step by step guide to creating a user account and applicant profile, and advice
and guidance about using our grant management system, please see the pages on
our website here.
Making an application
1. Read this guidance carefully and contact us.
This guidance gives you information on how to apply and answers some
common questions. If you have any further questions you can contact our
Customer Services team at [email protected]
2. Prepare and submit your proposal You must apply through Grantium
For technical guidance on how to submit your application through Grantium
please read our Grantium guidance for applicants – Development Funds.
Proposal
The proposal can be a maximum of 40,000 characters, divided into three sections:
‘Meeting the Brief’ (20,000 characters), ‘Management of the activity’ (10,000
characters) and ‘Financial viability’ (10,000 characters). You do not need to use the
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full character count if you do not feel it is necessary. Use the criteria/prompts in
section six of this guidance to help you structure your proposal.
Attachments
You must upload the following mandatory attachments on the
‘Attachments’ screen:
• A detailed budget for the activity showing proposed income and
expenditure (as an Excel sheet or similar)
• A cashflow for the project activity
• A work plan for the proposed project, including milestones and key
review dates
• The email we sent confirming that you had a mandatory conversation
with the Manager, Collections Management and Designation, Arts
Council England (if applying as a new network)
• Financial statements for your previous financial year, prepared to the
relevant legal standard for an organisation of your size and status
(non-National Portfolio Organisations only)
• Your latest management accounts (non-National Portfolio
Organisations only)
You may also upload the following optional attachments:
• Up to three other relevant attachments. These must each be a
maximum of five pages in length.
Allowable formats: jpg, xls, xlsx, jpeg, pdf, doc, docx, pptx, and ppt.
The combined limit on file size for all the attachments taken together is 10
megabytes.
We will use the information you give us in your application form and any
attachments to decide whether we will offer you a grant. If your application does
not contain the information we need in the format we ask for it to be in, we might
not be able to consider your application. After you have read this guidance, if you
have any further questions please contact us.
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Assistance with your application
We are committed to being open and accessible, and want to make the Subject
Specialist Network funding application process accessible to everyone.
If you experience any barriers within the application process or require help to
make an application, our enquiries team can be contacted by:
• Telephone on: 0845 300 6200
• Text phone: +44(0) 161 934 4428
• Email: [email protected]
After you submit your application
You will receive an acknowledgement email confirming that we have received your
application. This will be sent to the email address which you used to log into the
portal.
We will conduct an eligibility check within ten working days of the deadline for
applications. If your application is not eligible, this means that we cannot process it
any further and it will not be considered for funding. If your application is not
eligible we will write to you to let you know, and will explain our decision.
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Section six – how we will make our decision
We will aim to notify applicants of our decision no later than 7 December 2018.
We will check your application to ensure that you have provided all the
information we have requested.
We will make our decision based on the information you provide in your
application, any further information that we request and, where relevant, data and
information from the Charity Commission and Companies House websites relating
to your constitution and audited accounts from the past two years.
Each criterion (‘Meeting the brief’, ‘Management of the activity’, and ‘Financial
viability’) will be assessed using a five-point word scoring:
• Not met
The application does not meet the criteria
• Potential
The application does not meet the criteria but shows potential to do so
• Met
The application meets the criteria
• Met (strong)
The application meets the criteria and shows strong qualities
• Met (outstanding)
The application meets the criteria and shows outstanding qualities
On the basis of these ratings we will recommend whether an application is suitable
for funding. Applications that do not achieve at least 'met’ under all three criteria
will not be recommended for funding.
We will assess each application against the following criteria:
Criteria
Meeting the brief
Character count: up to 20,000 characters
Please tell us:
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• How your application will deliver on the fund’s aims and outcomes and all
the elements of what you will be expected to deliver, as described in this
brief
• The research you have done in planning and developing your activity
• How the activity relates to best practice
• How this activity fits in with your current work and its future
development, and how it makes the network more sustainable
• How it will support museum staff to enable more people to experience or
engage with museums
• How you will support museum staff to ensure that collections and the
knowledge which is shared and developed about collections, represents
and reflects the diversity of contemporary England
• How you have considered access, equality and diversity in your activity
• How you will support leadership development and the creation of fairer
entry and progression routes, as well as more diverse leadership and
governance that reflects the diversity of society as a whole
• How you will make the output and outcomes of the project available to the
broadest range of beneficiaries
• The role of collaborations or partnerships in your activity
• The expected longer-term impact and legacy of the activity
• How you will evaluate the outcomes outlined in your application
• How you will share the results of the activity with others and the wider
sector (including what you have learned from the activity and good
practice)
Management of the activity
Character count: up to 10,000 characters
• Feasibility of workplan
• Demonstration of skill and capacity to deliver the proposed programme
• Strong strategic fit with the applicant’s other activity
• Appropriate governance arrangements in place and/or planned, including
how partners are engaged
• What risks you have identified and how you will manage them
• How you have considered a progression strategy for the project
Financial viability
Character count: up to 10,000 characters
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• Financial viability of the applicant and of the project
• Demonstration of appropriateness of proposed budget
• Robust plans for resourcing the activity effectively
• How you will manage the finances for the activity, including the financial
controls that are in place
• Evidence of organisational buy-in by applicant and project partners, as cash
investment and/or in-kind support
In assessing the application, we will also consider these balancing criteria:
1. Geographical spread and reach: we will take into account the need to
support work across the whole of England. We will take into account the potential
reach of the portfolio of applications as a whole and we are particularly interested
in how organisations plan to make the outcomes of their project available to all
museum staff.
2. Diversity: we will also take diversity into account in terms of the focus and
outcomes of the project itself as well as the beneficiaries of the project activity, and
we are particularly interested in how organisations will make the output and
outcomes of the project available to the broadest range of beneficiaries.
3. Network focus: we will also consider the coverage of curatorial subjects by the
portfolio of applications. We are particularly interested in supporting a broad
range of subject areas in order to meet the needs of museum staff working with as
many different curatorial subjects as possible.
These balancing criteria will be used in addition to the main criteria to ensure a
good spread of funded projects according to each balancing criterion, and to
differentiate between a number of proposals that are considered fundable.
Decision making
Once we have scored your application and a recommendation has been made
whether to fund it, we will make our decision. To do this, we will consider how
strongly your activity scored against our criteria, the risks we have noted and any
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balancing criteria we have outlined above. We will also consider your activity
alongside other applications to the fund.
Complaints procedure
If you are not happy with the way we have dealt with your application, please
contact us and we will discuss this with you. If you are still unhappy, you can ask
us for a copy of our complaints procedure.
Details can be found in Making a complaint, which is available on our website,
www.artscouncil.org.uk, or by contacting our enquiries team by email to
[email protected] or by phoning 0845 300 6200.
Please note that you can only complain if you believe we have not followed our
published procedures when assessing your application. You cannot appeal against
the decision.
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Section seven – Freedom of Information Act
The Arts Council is committed to being as open as possible. We believe that the
public has a right to know how we spend public funds and how we make our
funding decisions.
We are also listed as a public authority under the Freedom of Information Act
2000. By law, we may have to provide your application documents and
information about our assessment to any member of the public who asks for them
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We may not release those parts of the documents which are covered by one or
more of the exemptions under the Act. Please see the Freedom of Information
website at www.ico.gov.uk for information about freedom of information generally
and the exemptions.
We will not release any information about applications during the assessment
period, as this may interfere with the decision-making process.
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Section eight – Data Protection
The Arts Council is committed to using any personal information (or personal
data) we collect on a lawful, fair and transparent basis, respecting your legal rights
as an individual in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation
(2016/679), the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and other applicable laws that
regulate the use and privacy of personal data (Data Protection Law).
As part of us meeting this requirement, we have published our General Privacy
Notice for you to refer to here. This tells you more about the personal data The Arts
Council collects; the different purposes that we use it for and on what legal basis;
who we may share that personal data with; how long we keep it; and your legal
rights, including your right to contact us and receive information regarding the
personal data about you that we may hold from time to time.
For further information about our obligations and your rights under Data
Protection Law, as well as how to report a concern if you believe that your personal
data is being collected or used illegally, please also see the Information
Commissioner Office website at www.ico.gov.uk.
Contact us
Arts Council England
The Hive
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Manchester
M1 1FN
Website: www.artscouncil.org.uk
Phone: 0845 300 6200
Email: [email protected]
Textphone: +44(0) 161 934 4428
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Appendix A – Arts Council England recognised Subject Specialist
Networks as of July 2018
These networks have been identified as supporting major collection areas and they
revolve around a subject specialism and are drawn from established professional
membership bodies, or less defined networks of museums. These networks help to
develop the knowledge and expertise associated with specialist collections. They
act as a democratic forum for the sharing of expertise, research, mentoring and
developing best practice.
Many other types of communities of practice and groups exist – these tend to focus
on generic topics such as learning and education, or broad museum activities like
registrars, conservation or security. These are outside of the Subject Specialist
Network remit, but often enjoy mutually supportive relationships with these
networks.
1. Army Museums Ogilby Trust (AMOT)
2. Art UK
3. Association of Performing Art Collections (APAC)
4. Association of British Transport & Engineering Museums (ABTEM)
5. Association of Curators for Collections from Egypt and Sudan (ACCES)
6. British Art Network
7. British Aviation Preservation Council
8. Chinese Collections Group
9. Contemporary Art Society
10. Contemporary Studio Ceramics
11. Crime and Punishment Collections Network
12. Dress and Textiles Specialists (DATS)
13. European Paintings Pre-1900
14. Fire Heritage Network
15. Geological Curators Group
16. Human Remains Subject Specialist Network
17. Inland Waterways Network
18. Islamic Art and Material Culture Subject Specialist Network
19. Maritime Curators Group
20. Medieval Pottery Research Group
21. Money and Medals Network
22. Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG)
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23. Musical Instruments Resources Network
24. National Banner Initiative
25. Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA)
26. Plastics Subject Specialist Network
27. The Photographic Collections Network
28. Rural Museums Network
29. Seaside Heritage Network
30. Social History Curators Group
31. Society for Museum Archaeology
32. Society of Decorative Art Curators
33. Sport in Museums Network
34. UK Medical Collections Group
35. Understanding British Portraits