The archive lottery adviser, supports archive services throughout the UK in making applications for lottery funding. This support is offered through to offices and other institutions which hold archives and, through them, to everyone who cares for or uses archives.
Support includes:
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) represents a unique opportunity for the archival community to seek substantial funding for the purpose of maintaining and developing our archival system, infrastructure and heritage. The role of the Archive Lottery Adviser is to help make the decision to submit a bid for funding to the HLF and the application process itself a less daunting and onerous task. It can be very helpful to have someone to consult, either telephonically or in person, about a variety of issues or concerns, to ask questions or simply to seek encouragement or confirmation of the best way forward.
It is often difficult to know where to begin. The archive lottery adviser is there to help you identify and explore some of the areas you will need to address when contemplating an application for lottery funding.
These include:
- Clearly identifying your need (the project)
- Clearly demonstrating your organisation's ability to meet that need
- Breaking down and prioritising key tasks
- Assigning responsibility for tasks and setting a project application timetable
- Identifying and minimising risks within your application
- Assigning responsibility for co-ordination and compilation of the bid
Those planning or currently drafting a project bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund may wish to log their intention with the archive lottery advisor for future updates which may be of interest to them. To do so send a request to her marked: Lottery Application Log Sheet.
The archive lottery advisor, Louise Ray, can be contacted at louise.ray@nationalarchives.gov.uk
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