York Museums Trust

Fundraising

We have been successful in securing funds for the following:

April 2009 - September 2009

Funding Body	Reason for Application/funds	Amount
Learning Revolution Transformation Fund	Joint educational project with University of York, CVS & the Yorkshire Film Archive	£,777
Learning Revolution Festival Grant	Informal adult learning events	£57,000
Friends of York Art GalleryM	Purchase of the William Etty painting Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball	£44,000
The Art Fund	Purchase of the William Etty painting Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball	£40,000
MLA/VLA Purchase Grant Fund	Purchase of the William Etty painting Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball	£35,000
Tomasso Brothers (sellers)	Purchase of the William Etty painting Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball	£1,000
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art	Toward the publication of a William Etty exhibition catalogue	£5,200
Garfield Weston Foundation	Yorkshire Museum Letting in the Light project	£200,000
Yorkshire Philosophical Society Donation	Yorkshire Museum Letting in the Light project	£815
Arts Council England	Sashiko Japanese Textiles Exhibition	£40,000
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation	Sashiko Japanese Textiles Exhibition	£2,000
DCMS/Wolfson Foundation	Museums & Galleries Improvement Fund Round 8 - for the Burton Gallery at YAG	£145,000
Headley Trust	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£15,000
York Glaziers Trust	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£25
University of York	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£l,000
Friends of Harrogate District Museums	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£3,000
Aviva	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£500
David Rymer Charitable Trust	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£500
Yorkshire Architectural & Archaeology Society	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£1,000
Rotary Club of York	Vikings Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£500
Council for British Architecture (Yorkshire)	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£250
York Civic Trust	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£1,000
Individual Contributions	Purchase of the Vale of York Viking Hoard	£3,970
Total Funding		£606,537

October 2009 - March 2010

Funding Body	Reason for Application/funds	Amount
Feoffees of St Michael's Spurriergate	Capital funding for the Yorkshire Museum Library	£5,000
MLA PRISM Grant Fund	Conservation of the type specimen of Ichthyosaurus crassimanus	£20,000
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art	William Etty exhibition catalogue	£5,200
Woodmansterne Conservation Awards	Conservation of Joshua Reynolds' Captain John Foote	£5,300
Arts Action York (CYC)	To develop new activity for Early Years at YAG	£1,000
MLA Designation Development Fund	Project to unlock the potential of 'hidden' collections	£73,500
Arts Council England Grants for the Arts	Contemporary Visual Art in York (York St Mary's and York Art Gallery)	£70,000
Headley Museums Archaeological Acquisitions Fund	Purchase of a medieval St Christopher plaque	£2,000
MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund	Purchase of a medieval St Christopher plaque	£2,400
MLA Adult Learning	evaluation and photography project	£7,500
York Youth Community Action Pilot grant (supported by DCSF)	Pilot project to work with young people to gain new interpretation and reinterpretation of the collections	£6,000
Yorkshire Philosophical Society	fern garden in the Museum Gardens	£1,000
Arts and Humanities Research Council	William Etty doctoral research project (joint bid with University of York)	£25,000
Total Funding		£198,900.00