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National Cataloguing Grants Programme

The National Archives is administering the distribution of more than £1.3 million over five years to tackle cataloguing backlogs following a successful pilot programme in 2006-07.


This programme has been made possible by the generous support of the Pilgrim Trust, the Foyle Foundation, the Wolfson Foundation, the Monument Trust, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Mercers Company Charitable Foundation and the Goldsmiths Company. The National Archives provides expert and secretariat support for the programme. Final decisions on the allocation of grants are made by an independent expert panel. The programme seeks to support the cataloguing of outstanding collections in need of external funding to provide access to their content.

Podcast: Dr Jessica Gardner, Exeter University Special Collections: Tackling a cataloguing backlog - strategy, promotion and funding from the Cataloguing Grants Scheme.

Download podcast: Tackling a cataloguing backlog

 

The 2009 round of the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives is now closed. A further round will run in Spring 2010.

Cataloguing Grants Panel 2009

  • Georgina Nayler (Pilgrim Trust, Chair)
  • Jamie Andrews (British Library)
  • Paula Brikci (MLA) 
  • David Brown (National Archives of Scotland) 
  • Sue Donnelly (London School of Economics Library, Archives Division)
  • Mary Ellis (CyMAL)
  • Heather Forbes (Gloucestershire Archives)
  • Liz Rees (Tyne and Wear Archives Service)
  • Chris Webb (Borthwick Institute, University of York)

In attendance:

  • Nicholas Kingsley (The National Archives, Programme Manager)
  • Melinda Haunton (The National Archives, Programme Secretary) 

Successful Applicants in 2008

Applications for over £2.8 million were received. Although many worthwhile projects could not be funded, we are delighted to announce that the following projects have been successful:

  • 'Powering the World' - Welsh Industry through Archives (Archives and Records Council Wales consortium bid): £40,000
  • 'A Window onto the World' - the archive of John Hardman & Co (Birmingham Archives and Heritage): £24,140
  • 'PaxCat' - archives of the British peace movement (University of Bradford Special Collections): £35,400
  • G King & Son, lead glaziers and stained glass conservators (Norfolk Record Office): £31,000
  • Southwell Minster archives (Nottinghamshire Archives): £38,256
  • 'The Infinite Uses of Glass' - Chance Bros Ltd archive (Sandwell Community History and Archive Centre): £27,709
  • 'Sheffield's Heartbeat: Steel' - the archives of Firth Brown (Sheffield Archives): £35,000
  • Staffordshire Quarter Sessions bundles (Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service): £33,940
  • 'The Harewood family and estate archive (West Yorkshire Archive Service): £37,487
  • 'Croome and Capability' - archives of the Earls of Coventry (Worcestershire Record Office): £27,732