Collection Care and Emergency Response Grant Scheme
Eligibility
Applicants
All individual or institutional Islamic Manuscript Association members who have paid their membership fees for the year (August – July) in which the Collection Care and Emergency Response grant is sought are eligible to apply for one. The institution where the collection is located need not be a member of the Association, and the applicant may or may not be a staff member of the partnering institution where the collection is located, as long as the project has the full authorisation and cooperation of the partner institution.
Collection Care and Emergency Response grants are offered in addition to other grants funded by the Association. Applying for a Collection Care and Emergency Response grant does not disqualify the applicant from applying for or receiving any other Association-sponsored grants.
Eligible Costs
Eligible costs include, but are not limited to:
- Assessments of partner institution’s preservation and conservation programmes
- Consultancy and training (eg in manuscript handling, laboratory design, box-making, etc)
- Condition surveying
- Monitoring and control of library or museum environments
- Development of strategies for integrated pest management and mould control
- Basic collection-wide preservation strategies, including purchase of equipment integral to successful delivery of such strategies (e.g. phase boxing)
- Design and implementation of exhibition policies and procedures
- Evaluation and design of library and museum security
- Disaster planning
- Emergency disaster response, including any necessary equipment
Applications with a focus on collection-wide management policies will be prioritised.
Not eligible for funding
- Planned conservation treatments for specific manuscripts, or related equipment, tools, and materials (other than collection-wide preservation and emergency intervention projects) Support for such projects is available through the Association’s Annual Grant Scheme
- Members who have not yet completed a previous Collection Care and Emergency Response grant funded by the Association
- Members who have not yet paid their fees for the year in which the grant is sought
Please contact the Association at grants@islamicmanuscript.org if you have any questions about the eligibility of your grant application.
Terms and Conditions
When completing the application form, a senior representative of the partnering institution must acknowledge the following statement:
‘On behalf of [the Institution], the undersigned fully and completely acknowledge(s) the following:
Notwithstanding its best efforts to ensure the quality of the advice or information provided to the Institution, neither The Islamic Manuscript Association (hereinafter the Association) nor any of its Members makes any warranty, express or implied, or assume any kind of liability or responsibility for the completeness, the accuracy, the adequacy and the usefulness of any advice or information provided to the Institution, which shall alone bear said risk.
The advice shall be given on the basis of the information which is to be provided by the Institution and which the undersigned acknowledges to be consistent with the project to be assessed.’