VIM Small Grants: 2013 winners announced

Stuart Spragg, Click go the Shears, 2009

Lockhart Museum Art displayed at the Gunyah Museum.

M & G News

Here are some quick stats to whet your appetite for applying this year:

• 22 of 43 applications were successful
• $51,436 allocated
• The funds will support the work of an estimated 585 volunteers across 21 local government areas in 11 regions of NSW. 

VIM Leg-up grant is currently open.
VIM Skills Initiative grant is currently open.

Read on for the complete list of the VIM Grant winners for 2013.

VIM Development Project Grants – up to $7000

• Australian Scout Museum – Strategic Plan development
• Deniliquin Historical Society Museum – capacity building and collection care
• Murrurundi Museum – Significance Assessment
• Tongarra Museum – capacity building and documentary film development
• Willoughby Museum – exhibition development

VIM Small Grants – Up to $2000

• Australian Country Music Hall of Fame – archival hat boxes
• Great Lakes Historical Society Museum – construction of display cases
• Greens Gunyah Museum – conservation treatment
• Illawarra Museum – archival and textile boxes
• Lawrence Museum – textile storage shelving and materials for outdoor vehicle storage 
• Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum – exhibition development
• Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park and Museum – exhibition development
• Maclean Bicentennial Museum – costume storage boxes
• McCrossin’s Mill Museum – collection management database
• Morpeth Museum – interpretive panels for exhibition
• Moruya Museum – textile storage boxes
• Mullumbimby Museum – conservation treatment
• Museum of Walcha District Historical Society – textile storage boxes and mannequins
• Nambucca Headland Museum – signage purchase
• Narromine Aviation Museum – LED lighting upgrade
• Nowra Museum – storage shelving
• Old Courthouse Museum, Batemans Bay – AV equipment for exhibition
• Port Macquarie Historical Museum – metal shelving for textile storage area
• Rockley Mill Museum – MOSAiC database
• Snowy Scheme Museum – equipment for the upkeep of vehicles in the collection
• Snowy Scheme Museum – outdoor lighting
• Sulphide Street Station Railway & Historical Museum – posters for public program display
• Thredbo Ski Museum – MOSAiC database
• Tinonee Museum – showcases
• Tinonee Museum – archival materials
• Wyalong Museum – storage shelving cabinets
• Wymah School Museum – display cases
• Yamba Museum – exhibition Development

VIM Leg Up Grants – Up to $500

• Clyde River & Batemans Bay Historical Society – Significance Assessment workshop attendance
• Dunera Museum – Access to Funding event attendance
• Fort Scratchley Historical Site – Certificate IV Museum Practice Course at Newcastle TAFE for curator
• Griffith Pioneer Park Museum – Access to Funding workshop participation
• Golden Memories Museum – Oral histories and the digital age workshop attendance
• Golden Memories Museum – MOSAiC database training
• Gulgong Pioneer Museum – MOSAiC database training
• Hay War Memorial High School Museum – IMAGinE awards event attandance
• Holbrook Submarine Museum – Standards Mid Program Workshop attendance
• Holbrook Submarine Museum –  Standards Debrief and Celebration event attendance
• Kempsey Museum and Cultural Centre – IMAGinE awards event attendance
• Mid North Coast Maritime Museum – IMAGinE Awards and the Regional Stake holders Forum attendance
• Tenterfield & District Historical Society – Royal Australian Historical Society Regional Conference attendance
• Wollondilly Heritage Centre – Newcastle TAFE for Cert IV Museum Practice course 
• Yamba Museum – Connecting with the History Curriculum workshop hosting costs
• Yamba Museum – IMAGinE Awards event attendance
• Yeoval Historical Museum – MOSAiC database training

Museums & Galleries NSW: Access to Funding: VIM Grants

For more info and video of presentation by Phoebe Arthur click on the following link.

 Museums & Galleries NSW: Access to Funding: VIM Grants: On March 21 M&G NSW, in partnership with the Museum of the Riverina, presented  Access to Funding , a workshop delivering skills to make...

Museums & Galleries NSW - Funding & Prizes

Mentorship, Fellowship and Placements
2013 round now open!

 With a Mentorship or Fellowship, paid museum and gallery staff can travel interstate or overseas, get a fresh perspective and build new industry contacts. The grants cover costs associated with travel, accommodation and incidentals.

The Volunteer Placement provides volunteers with an opportunity to extend their knowledge, enhance their skills and increase their networks through access to the resources and staff of larger or specialised cultural organisations.

Closing: Friday 19 April 2013
More: mgnsw.org.au/grants/mentorships_fellowships_and_placements

This is an Arts NSW devolved funding program administered by Museums & Galleries NSW on behalf of the NSW Government.

Volunteer Initiated Museum grants (VIM)
Now open for 2013!

If your volunteer run museum requires funding for projects addressing skill development, operational planning and forward planning then consider applying for a VIM grant.

 
More: mgnsw.org.au/grants/museum_grants

 
This is an Arts NSW devolved funding program administered by Museums & Galleries NSW on behalf of the NSW Government.
 

Your Community Heritage grants
Now open for applications

 Grants up to $500,000 are available to help community groups to conserve and protect Australia’s nationally significant historic sites, undertake natural disaster recovery and mitigation activities relating to historic heritage places, honour eminent Australians who have made a significant contribution to our nation, assist communities tell their heritage stories and enhance community engagement in heritage through celebrations and events.

Closing: Thursday 21 March 2013
More: www.environment.gov.au/heritage/programs


Residency for artists living in regional NSW

Artspace is a leading international residency-based contemporary art centre, housed in the historic Gunnery Building in Woolloomooloo fronting Sydney Harbour. Operating four on-site residential studios, six non-residential work spaces and an Open Studio program, as well as exhibition program Artspace is the key hub of the contemporary art community in Sydney, fostering dialogue between local artists, writers and curators and their national and international counterparts. This residency opportunity will provide an artist from regional NSW with a unique professional development opportunity.  The successful applicant will be provided with costs for return travel, residential studio accommodation, a living allowance and support towards production costs. The residency will take place October - December 2013. Applications are invited from professional visual artists resident in regional New South Wales and working in any medium.  

Closing: Friday 3 May 2013
More: www.artspace.org.au/about_news

The Volunteer-Initiated Museum (VIM) Grant Program is now open for 2012

Museums & Galleries NSW (M&G NSW) is pleased to announce that the Volunteer-Initiated Museum (VIM) Grant Program is now open for 2012. Applications are now invited for Leg Ups – Skill Development Grants (matched funding up to $500), VIM Small Grants (funding up to $2,000) and VIM Skills Initiatives Grants (funding up to $5,000).  Leg Up Grants can be applied for year round until all funds are expended.
 
The first round of Small Grants close: Friday 20 April 2012.
 
The Guidelines for all VIM Grants can be downloaded from Museums & Galleries NSW’s website.
Contact: Phoebe Arthur, Sector Development Coordinator on 02 9339 9913, free call 1800 114 311 or phoebea@mgnsw.org.au to organise an application form.

The M&G NSW VIM Grant Program is administered by Museums & Galleries NSW and is funded by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.