Collection Care and Emergency Response Grant Scheme
Description
Many members of the Islamic Manuscript Association work with manuscript collections facing daunting preservation and conservation challenges.
To address these challenges, the Association has created the Collection Care and Emergency Response Grant Scheme, which awards three grants of up to £5,000 British pounds annually to support the implementation of collection-wide care and management strategies and associated training and consultation.
* UPDATE (3 March 2016): Please note that one grant will be awarded annually until further notice. The next award will be made in 2017. Please contact Association staff with any queries.*
These grants are open to all Association members who have paid their membership fees for the current year (August- July) and are offered in addition to other grants funded by the Association. Receiving a Collection Care and Emergency Response grant does not disqualify the applicant from applying for any other Association-sponsored grants. The institution where the collection is located need not itself be a member of the Association.
What are Collection Care and Emergency Response Grants for?
Collection Care and Emergency Response grants support initiatives that will enable improvements in collection care and management, with a particular focus on collection-wide procedures, policies, and emergency responses. For further details of eligible project types, please see the Eligibility and Eligible Costs page. Assessments, consultancies, and training courses may be led by a suitably qualified member of the Islamic Manuscript Association, or the Association may assist in finding an expert.
Collection Care and Emergency Response grants are not intended to fund planned conservation treatments for specific manuscripts or to purchase equipment, tools, or materials for such conservation projects. Support for such projects is available through the Association’s Annual Grant Scheme. The exception to this is the purchase of necessary equipment for collection-wide or emergency measures, such as boxes or vacuum packing bags.
Every applicant for a Collection Care and Emergency Response grant must submit simultaneously a completed application form, questionnaire, reference, and letter of support from the partner institution. The questionnaire is a planning tool that ensures that basic information about the collection has been taken into account in preparing the application.
All grant recipients will be required to submit a grant report and a summary of expenditure to the Association within three months of completing the grant project. Grant recipients who do not submit a report will not be eligible for future Association funding. The content of these reports remains the property of the Islamic Manuscript Association, which reserves the right to publish or use any information contained therein.