Clore Duffield Foundation
The Clore Duffield Foundation - funding for a wide range of projects to benefit community life
Clore Duffield Foundation’s Main Grants Programme does not fund individuals, but it can match lottery funding, support capital redevelopments and learning space initiatives, and provide project, programme and revenue funding.
Application procedures are straightforward, and the Foundation continues to maintain a balance between supporting large-scale projects with far-reaching effects, and small-scale community endeavours.
Grants range from below £5,000 to in excess of £1m.
All grants are awarded at the Trustees meeting, held twice a year. As there is no fixed schedule for these meetings, applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.
The Foundation welcomes submissions to the Main Grants Programme for projects from the following sectors:
- Museums, galleries and heritage sites (particularly for learning spaces)
- The arts
- Education
- Health, social care and disability
- Jewish charities with interests in any of the above areas
Learning Spaces
The Clore Duffield Foundation has funded museum, gallery and heritage learning spaces across the UK for over 15 years, from £2.5m Clore learning centres in national museums, to donations of less than £5,000 for single rooms in local history heritage buildings.
In light of this experience, the Foundation provides learning space applicants with basic guidance on cost; lighting levels; location, use and nature of space; dimensions; programming; display; architect's plans; and best practice examples (small and large-scale).
Applicants should also read “Space for Learning: A Handbook for Education Spaces in Museums, Heritage Sites and Discovery Centres” (2004), which can be downloaded on the website before applying for funding.
For more information on how to apply, please go to: http://www.cloreduffield.org.uk/page.php?id=35
last updated on 19th April 2011