Museums Association: Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund
Overview
They delighted to announce the forthcoming Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, a £1.5m, three-year programme of grant-making, networking and learning dissemination for health and wellbeing programmes in museums funded by the Julia Rausing Trust.
There will be two rounds of funding, one in 2025 and a second in 2026.
They’ll make around 10 grants of £50,000 to £75,000 per round. embedding excellent practice and reaching at least 5,000 participants, with a legacy enabling further support in future. They’ll also undertake a public evaluation and share learning from the funded work to inspire others in the sector.
Purpose and process
The fund is designed to enable museums to build on their existing, leading health and wellbeing work. This means you should have:
- A proven track record for the work you are doing
- A strategic commitment to health and wellbeing at your museum
- A clear idea of how you would like to develop your work
They can fund the “next stage” of work you have undertaken, but you should be able to tell them the need for the work, how you will improve or extend your impact and what legacy you hope to build with the funding.
They acknowledge that making a grant application takes precious time and resources. They’ve designed an application process, outlined below, to ensure they only invite applications from those who have real potential to be funded.