The
Mills Archive Trust in Reading has received £95,300 from the Heritage Lottery
Fund (HLF) for an exciting project, ‘Succession Breeds Success”
Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the project focuses on transforming the charity in three strategic areas so that the rare UK milling records they care for continue to be preserved and freely available for generations to come.
The project will build on the Mills Archive’s existing successes, focusing on the areas of governance, management, and fundraising. The project will provide the tools to make the organisation resilient so that it can continue to provide educational services for the benefit of the public.
The funding comes from a new HLF grants programme called Resilient Heritage. This programme offers grants of £3,000-£250,000 to help strengthen organisations, and build the capacity of staff and volunteers to improve how heritage is managed in the long term.
The Mills Archive is a charity and accredited archive. It preserves and makes freely available some three million images and documents recording the nation’s important milling heritage. These records capture the whole history of milling, from ancient querns used thousands of years ago, to traditional wind and watermills and up to present-day modern mills. Often, these records are all that remain of a mill and without them, this significant part of the UK’s rich heritage and the memories would be lost forever. The Archive depends on volunteers who work tirelessly to catalogue the material. Many of these volunteers are students enrolled on the Archive’s work experience programme, gaining vital skills to help them on their career path into heritage and charity work.
Commenting on the award, Liz Bartram, Director of Programmes & Development said, “We are delighted to have received this support thanks to National Lottery players. We are confident that with this funding, we will transform what we can achieve as a charity and ensure that these precious records are preserved now and for future generations”.
About the Mills Archive Trust
The Mills Archive was set up in 2002 by a group of volunteers, determined to rescue and preserve for free public use records of milling heritage. The need for this specialist resource has been confirmed by the more than 3 million records we now hold and the 75,000 visitors each year to our website. In the course of building this repository we have raised and spent well over £1 million, trained and retained a professionally qualified archivist and built the country's largest library devoted to mills and milling. In November 2016 the National Archives appointed us as an accredited archive service, recognising our standards of collection care. We are proud of our relationship with our community; not only are we providing a service for the public and subject enthusiasts, we have for the last 10 years been running a successful work experience programme for local graduates.
Visit the Mills Archive Trust website, HERE.
About the Heritage Lottery Fund
Thanks to National Lottery players, we invest money to help people across the UK explore, enjoy and protect the heritage they care about - from the archaeology under our feet to the historic parks and buildings we love, from precious memories and collections to rare wildlife.
Visit the Heritage Lottery Fund website, HERE.
Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the project focuses on transforming the charity in three strategic areas so that the rare UK milling records they care for continue to be preserved and freely available for generations to come.
The project will build on the Mills Archive’s existing successes, focusing on the areas of governance, management, and fundraising. The project will provide the tools to make the organisation resilient so that it can continue to provide educational services for the benefit of the public.
The funding comes from a new HLF grants programme called Resilient Heritage. This programme offers grants of £3,000-£250,000 to help strengthen organisations, and build the capacity of staff and volunteers to improve how heritage is managed in the long term.
The Mills Archive is a charity and accredited archive. It preserves and makes freely available some three million images and documents recording the nation’s important milling heritage. These records capture the whole history of milling, from ancient querns used thousands of years ago, to traditional wind and watermills and up to present-day modern mills. Often, these records are all that remain of a mill and without them, this significant part of the UK’s rich heritage and the memories would be lost forever. The Archive depends on volunteers who work tirelessly to catalogue the material. Many of these volunteers are students enrolled on the Archive’s work experience programme, gaining vital skills to help them on their career path into heritage and charity work.
Commenting on the award, Liz Bartram, Director of Programmes & Development said, “We are delighted to have received this support thanks to National Lottery players. We are confident that with this funding, we will transform what we can achieve as a charity and ensure that these precious records are preserved now and for future generations”.
About the Mills Archive Trust
The Mills Archive was set up in 2002 by a group of volunteers, determined to rescue and preserve for free public use records of milling heritage. The need for this specialist resource has been confirmed by the more than 3 million records we now hold and the 75,000 visitors each year to our website. In the course of building this repository we have raised and spent well over £1 million, trained and retained a professionally qualified archivist and built the country's largest library devoted to mills and milling. In November 2016 the National Archives appointed us as an accredited archive service, recognising our standards of collection care. We are proud of our relationship with our community; not only are we providing a service for the public and subject enthusiasts, we have for the last 10 years been running a successful work experience programme for local graduates.
Visit the Mills Archive Trust website, HERE.
About the Heritage Lottery Fund
Thanks to National Lottery players, we invest money to help people across the UK explore, enjoy and protect the heritage they care about - from the archaeology under our feet to the historic parks and buildings we love, from precious memories and collections to rare wildlife.
Visit the Heritage Lottery Fund website, HERE.
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