THE NATIONAL MANUSCRIPTS CONSERVATION TRUST — grant history
Latest income
£228k
Grants listed (FY2025)
22
Listed grants total
£172k
Accounts grants total
£174k
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: Applications must be submitted using our form, which you can download here . The applications are then considered by Trustees at their meetings in late June and late November and applicants are notified of the result as soon after the meeting as possible.
- Deadlines: We have two grant deadlines each year, April 1st and October 1st - you can find out how to apply and can download application forms from this website.
- What they don’t fund: we do not give grant for equipment or standalone digitisation projects.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Camden
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| GWENT ARCHIVES | FY2025 | £23k | Saving Steeltown: Conserving the records of the Ebbw Vale Steelworks |
| HAMPSHIRE ARCHIVES | FY2025 | £21k | Winchester Cathedral medieval rolls conservation project |
| GLAMORGAN ARCHIVES | FY2025 | £20k | Preserving the Cardiff Castle collection, Phase 3 |
| WILTSHIRE & SWINDON HISTORY CENTRE | FY2025 | £15k | A View Across Time: Conserving the Arundell Manorial Court Rolls, 1331-1799 |
| WEST SUSSEX RECORD OFFICE | FY2025 | £14k | Ordinary Voices Revealed: conserving the working papers of the Consistory Court of the Archdeaconry of Chichester, 1554-1851 |
| JOHN RYLANDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER | FY2025 | £9k | Conservation treatment and re-housing of the ‘Papyrus’ Rylands Greek 53: The Odyssey |
| EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY HERITAGE COLLECTIONS | FY2025 | £9k | Preserving the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Director’s letters |
| SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | FY2025 | £9k | The conservation of the ‘Wonderful Magical’ scrapbook, 1450-1850 |
| EAST LONDON MOSQUE ARCHIVES | FY2025 | £8k | Conserving a unique record of British Muslim history |
| BROMLEY HISTORIC COLLECTIONS | FY2025 | £7k | The conservation of 18th- and 19th-century Overseers’ Rate Books |
| BRITISH JESUIT ARCHIVES | FY2025 | £7k | Completing the restoration of Anglia for future generations: conservation of volumes III, V-VII |
| USHAW HISTORIC HOUSE, CHAPELS AND GARDENS, DURHAM | FY2025 | £6k | Ushaw Library Manuscripts (1500-1890): conservation and access |
| GLAMIS CASTLE ARCHIVES | FY2025 | £5k | The conservation of five volumes from the Strathmore Papers Collection, 1666 to 20th century |
| ABER VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM, SENGHENYDD | FY2025 | £4k | Conservation of inquest maps and drawings and preservation of memorial napkins |
| HAWKSHEAD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MUSEUM | FY2025 | £4k | The conservation of the school’s Letter Patent from 1585 |
| THE ROYAL SOCIETY | FY2025 | £3k | The conservation of the Patent granted to Robert Rigg FRS, organic chemist, by George IV, in 1827 |
| KRESEN KERNOW | FY2025 | £3k | Mr Trevail’s Landmarks |
| WILTSHIRE & SWINDON HISTORY CENTRE IN COLLABORATION WITH NEW FOLKESTONE SOCIETY | FY2025 | £2k | Conservation and digitisation of Abraham Walter’s Book of Maps of East Kent 1699 |
| BATH UNIVERSITY, ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH COLLECTIONS | FY2025 | £2k | Sir Isaac Pitman’s Letter Book (1833-1838) |
| ST EDMUNDSBURY CATHEDRAL, BURY ST EDMUNDS | FY2025 | £2k | The Bury Psalter, c.1405-1410: conserving and displaying a town’s manuscript heritage |
| CONWY ARCHIVES SERVICE | FY2025 | £1k | Conserving the Llanrwst petition |
| CANNON HALL MUSEUM, BARNSLEY MUSEUMS | FY2025 | £550 | The conservation of a Special Pardon from King Charles II |
| SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON | FY2024 | £18k | Conservation of the collection of Wiltshire material of J E Jackson |
| STOKE-ON-TRENT CITY ARCHIVES | FY2024 | £16k | Majolica Mania Conservation Project: Art and design work for Majolica ceramics pieces, c1850-c1910 |
| NORTH EAST WALES ARCHIVES, FLINTSHIRE | FY2024 | £14k | The Glyn Valley Tramway waybill book |
| CUMBRIA ARCHIVES, CARLISLE | FY2024 | £11k | Conserving the Thomas Mawson design archive for gardens at Curwen Woods, Burton-in-Kendal |
| ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS, LONDON | FY2024 | £10k | Conserving the Story of Sculpture |
| TOWNEND FARMHOUSE, WINDERMERE, NATIONAL TRUST | FY2024 | £10k | The conservation of seven volumes of the Townend Bound Archive, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries |
| GLADSTONE’S LIBRARY, HAWARDEN | FY2024 | £9k | The conservation of 30 bundles of letters linked to the Gladstone family’s role in enslavement in the Caribbean, 1817-1881 |
| KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD | FY2024 | £7k | The conservation of John Keble sermons, c.1818-1864 |
| CHIDDINGSTONE CASTLE (The Denys Eyre Bower Bequest), EDENBRIDGE, KENT | FY2024 | £7k | Conservation of High Street House parchments, 17th century |
| GWENT ARCHIVES | FY2024 | £7k | Labour’s ‘Welsh Terrier’: preserving the papers of Paul Flynn, MP |
| CONWAY HALL ETHICAL SOCIETY | FY2024 | £6k | Insights into three Victorian radicals |
| THE WORDSWORTH TRUST, GRASMERE | FY2024 | £6k | Re-housing the Dove Cottage Manuscripts |
| ARCHIVES: WIGAN AND LEIGH (Wigan Council, Greater Manchester) | FY2024 | £5k | The Towneley Manuscripts |
| THE SALTERS’ COMPANY, LONDON | FY2024 | £4k | Salters’ Company Archives: Noteworthy property records and an intriguing legal copy book, late 1500s to 1840s |
| CARMARTHENSHIRE ARCHIVES | FY2024 | £3k | The conservation of the Llansawel parish vestry book, 1821-1875 |
| CHARTERHOUSE, LONDON; CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL, GODALMING; AND THE LONDON ARCHIVES, LONDON | FY2024 | £2k | Preserving our Legacy: the conservation of the 1611 Letters Patent for the foundation of Sutton’s Hospital in Charterhouse |
| SIR JOSEPH BANKS SOCIETY, HORNCASTLE, LINCOLNSHIRE | FY2024 | £980 | The conservation of a letter written by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) in 1773 |
| WEST SUSSEX RECORD OFFICE | FY2023 | £22k | Ordinary Voices Revealed: conserving the working papers of the Consistory Court of the Archdeaconry of Chichester |
| KNOLE HOUSE (NATIONAL TRUST) | FY2023 | £21k | The conservation of Sackville patents of nobility and pedigrees |
| WORCESTER ARCHIVES AND ARCHAEOLOGY SERVICE | FY2023 | £18k | The conservation of Worcestershire wills 1617-1623 |
| CARMARTHENSHIRE ARCHIVES | FY2023 | £16k | Connecting London with New York |
| BATH RECORD OFFICE | FY2023 | £15k | Conserving the papers of James Thomas Irvine, architect and antiquarian |
| GLAMORGAN ARCHIVES | FY2023 | £14k | The conservation of the William Burges designs for Cardiff Castle, phase II |
| CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY | FY2023 | £11k | The Conservation of MS Add. 5963: a guardbook of Medieval manuscript fragments. |
| ARGYLL ESTATES, INVERARAY CASTLE | FY2023 | £10k | The conservation of early Tiree rentals, 1828, 1829 and 1846 |
| FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE | FY2023 | £6k | The conservation of two Islamic manuscripts, MS McClean 198 (1376-77 CE) and MS 262-1949 (mid-16th century) |
| BALLET RAMBERT, LONDON | FY2023 | £5k | The conservation of the Rambert manuscripts collection |
| FREUD MUSEUM, LONDON | FY2023 | £4k | Preserving and Sharing the Sándor Ferenczi Archive (1897-1940) |
| ABERDEEN CITY AND ABERDEENSHIRE ARCHIVES | FY2023 | £3k | The conservation of register of prisoners released from HM General Prison, Perth, 1880-1884. |
| POWYS ARCHIVES | FY2023 | £2k | The conservation of a terrier relating to the Elan Valley 1893-1904 |
| MUSEUM OF FREEMASONRY, LONDON | FY2023 | £1k | The conservation of the Old Charge manuscript of British Freemansonry 1718 |
| FRY ART GALLERY, SAFFRON WALDEN | FY2023 | £900 | The conservation of an Edward Bawden scrapbook |
| PORTMEIRION LTD / CLOUGH WILLIAMS ELLIS FOUNDATION | FY2023 | £500 | The conservation of the Mytton and Mermaid Scrapbook |