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Ian has been involved in raising money for projects over the past 22 years from a wide range of agencies and organisations including

Public sector funding through local authorities

EU funding including Objective 1, Objective 2, Objective 5b, RECHAR and KONVER

English Partnerships

English Heritage

Natural England (formerly Countryside Commission and Countryside Agency)

Historic Scotland

Cadw

Training and Enterprise Companies (England and Scotland)

Welsh Development Agency (now Welsh Assembly Government)

Visit Wales (now Welsh Assembly Government)

Land Fill Tax

Aggregates Tax

Sustainability Fund

Business sponsorship

Charitable grant-giving trusts.

This can be summarised as follows:

Heritage Lottery

Type of Project

Value

Date Submitted

Outcome

Moira Furnace
North West Leicestershire

£400,000

January 1997

Approved as part of plural funded project including EU RECHAR

Brunel’s, Mansfield

£332,000

October 1998

Approved

Glasgow Trades Hall

£500,000

September 1998

Approved

Marston Vale Community Forest Oral History Project

£100,000

1999

Approved

Rufford Country Park Historic Landscape Survey and Restoration Plan

c. £5m

January 2002

Deferred

Community Facilitator Castleford Forum

£50,000

January 2002

Approved

Priory House Dunstable

£1.1m

September 2003

Approved

Project Planning Grant Amlwch Industrial Heritage Trust

£50,000

February 2003

Approved

Castle Mound Bedford Your Heritage Grant

£50,000

February 2004

Approved

Chilterns Society

32,000

 

Approved

Interpreting the Battle of Sedgemoor (1685)

50,000

June 2005

Approved

The Junction Project
Gloucester & Sharpness Canal

25,000

2006

Approved

Other Funding Applications

Ian is experienced in undertaking parallel bids for projects using other sources:

Site

Source

Value

Date

Decision

Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens Trust

Gulbenkian Foundation and others

750,000

1988/89

Approved

Dunaskin Open Air Industrial Museum (Objective 2)

ERDF

350,000

January 1995

Approved

Dunaskin Open Air Industrial Museum

RECHAR

300,000

December 1995

Approved

Making It! Discovery Centre Mansfield (ph 1)

ERDF

435,000

October 1996

Approved

Making It! Discovery Centre Mansfield (ph2)

ERDF

1,037,000

November 1997

Approved

Making It! Discovery Centre Mansfield (ph 2)

Millennium Commission

1,772,024

November 1997

Approved

Making It! Discovery Centre Mansfield (ph 2)

DfEE/New Opportunities Fund

75,000 (revenue) 57,000 (capital)

February 2001

Approved

Moira Furnace

RECHAR

600,000

November 1996

Approved

Marston Vale Community Forest Centre

Millennium Commission

2.4m

May 1997

Approved

Chalmerston Forest Park

ERDF

1m

September 1997

Approved

Our Interpretation and Learning Plans and Audience Development Plans have contributed significantly to grants being given by the Heritage Lottery Fund to:

Sheffield Manor Lodge £1.2m

Weald Forest Ridge Landscape Partnership Scheme £2m

Tudor House Museum Southampton £2m

Working Lives of the Thames Gateway (Oral History Project) £600,000

Shire Hall Monmouth  £3.2m.

 

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