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Grants to Help Strengthen Museum Leadership Capacity (Scotland)
As part of the wider Museum Futures initiative by Museums Galleries Scotland, the Leadership Capacity Fund has been created in recognition of the fact that many museums struggle to develop the capacity for strategic thinking and development work required to move their organisations into a stronger position.
The fund is intended to free up leadership capacity by awarding grants of up to £60,000 to support:
- Additional hours for leaders who work part-time
- Backfilling for leaders so that they can hand over operational elements of their roles to others for a period of time
- Secondments into temporary strategic posts
- Nominal travel and equipment costs to facilitate the strategic planning work to be undertaken
- New temporary staff to undertake specific pieces of strategic development work
The additional capacity can be supported for up to 12 months.
Eligible applicants must be:
- Accredited museums
- Non-Accredited museums
- Formally constituted groups of museums (eg. geographical forums)
Between 8 and 10 grants are expected to be awarded.
Expressions of interest should be submitted by the 13th August 2025. Successful applicants will then be invited to submit a full application by the 27th August 2025.
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10th July 2025