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Grants

HLF Transition Funding  - 100k

  • Establishment of a new charitable body

  • Recruitment of a new Board of Trustees

 

ACE Funding - £320k

  • New partnership of Torquay’s 3 museums

  • Fundraising officer, outreach officer, programme officer, volunteer coordinator and finance manager

  • Fundraising programme

  • Marketing programme and development of web portal and sites

  • Education programme

  • All new IT, point of sale and finance systems

 

HLF Your Heritage  - £50k  Geohub Project

  • Geology gallery redisplay

  • Education programme & community engagement

 

Happy Museum -  £10 Young Sustainability Champions Programme

  • Developing the museum as a hub for “green living” lead by teenagers

 

Esmee Fairburn—£40k  Geology Project

  • Conservation of internationally important geology collections

 

Corporate giving

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Cavanna Homes

  • 3 year support for  Monster Saturdays Education Programme

 

Waitrose and Asda

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Torquay United

  • In-kind sponsorship of temporary exhibition

 

ITV

Donation of  set from Hercule Poirot  series for  the redisplayed Agatha Christie Gallery

 

Individual fundraising

Public campaign that raised c £20k in 6 months

 

Public sponsorship programme

Individual sponsorship of exhibition items for temporary exhibitions

 

Donations

Development of automata donations boxes by Forkbeard Fantasy

 

On-line giving

Establishing on-line presence with Just Giving

 

Volunteering

British Council

  • International volunteering scheme supported by British Council funding

 

Partnership funding applications

Quest Play -  with Play Torbay/Play England -  a festival of science focussed events for children with the Barbican Theatre,, Egg Theatre, National Trust and Forkbeard Fantasy.

Project Example

 

Torquay Museums

 

2012-14

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Our contribution:

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Phil Collins - as Director/CEO

 

  • Development and implementation of a 5 year fund raising strategy

 

  • Funding applications

 

  • Partnership development and co-funding

 

  • Business membership scheme

 

  • Corporate Sponsorship

 

  • Individual giving

 

  • On-line giving scheme

 

  • Apprenticeship scheme

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