Arts Council National Lottery Development Funds: Subject Specialist Networks Project Funding 2018-20 Guidance for applicants The below is an outline summary of key information. Please see Section three for

full eligibility criteria.

Summary of key information

What is the focus of the fund?

Subject Specialist Networks exist to

develop the museum sector’s curatorial

knowledge by capturing and sharing

expertise associated with collections in

a sustainable way. This fund will

support Subject Specialist Networks to

develop, maintain and share expertise

associated with specialist collections

alongside their contribution to public

engagement, education and enjoyment.

We will expect applications to

anticipate and adapt to economic,

environmental and social change by

seizing opportunities, identifying and

mitigating risks, and deploying

resources effectively in order to

continue delivering work in line with

the applicant’s mission. This includes

thinking about and planning for

organisational performance, financial

and environmental sustainability, the

skills and knowledge of the workforce,

as well as equality and diversity.

Who can apply?

We will accept applications from the

following:

• Subject Specialist Networks

which are already recognised by

Arts Council England.

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These networks have been

identified as supporting major

collection areas and they revolve

around a subject specialism and

are drawn from established

professional membership bodies,

or less defined networks of

museums. These networks help

to develop the knowledge and

expertise associated with

specialist collections. They act as

a democratic forum for the

sharing of expertise, research,

mentoring and developing best

practice.

Please see Appendix A for the full

list of currently recognised

Subject Specialist Networks.

• Applications from a consortium

of recognised networks working

together. One organisation must

act as the lead organisation and

submit the application.

• Applications from new networks,

or proposed networks which

meet the following criteria:

- The network is focussed on a

particular collection type not

covered by another network

- There is clear and robust

evidence of the need for the

network

- There is satisfactory evidence of

support from members or

proposed members and their

host institutions

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- The application is made through

a lead applicant who is either a

formally constituted organisation

with a track record in delivering

services to the museum sector or

an Accredited museum on the

network’s behalf

Applicants applying as a new network

must have a mandatory conversation

with the Manager, Collections

Management and Designation, Arts

Council England about their proposal

and their eligibility for the fund prior to

submission.

All lead applicants must be either

a formally constituted

organisation with a track record

in delivering services to the

museum sector or an Accredited

museum.

When is the deadline for

applications?

12pm (midday) on Thursday 23

August 2018

How much can be applied for per

application?

Between £10,000 – £80,000

When must the activity take

place?

Activities must start no earlier than 1

January 2019

Activities must end no later than 30

June 2020

Minimum match funding from

other sources

10% of total project budget. This can

include in kind support.

When will we make our

decision?

We will aim to notify applicants of our

decision no later than 7 December 2018

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Contents

Section one – introduction .................................................................. 5

Welcome ........................................................................................... 5

Background ......................................................................................... 5

About Arts Council England .............................................................. 6

About Arts Council England’s Development funds 2018-22 ............... 6

Section two – purpose of Subject Specialist Networks ......................... 8

Aims and outcomes ............................................................................. 8

How much funding is available? ........................................................ 9

Section three – eligibility .................................................................... 10

Consortia and partnership agreements ............................................ 14

Section four – what you will be expected to deliver ............................. 15

Section five – how to apply ................................................................. 17

Talking to us about your application – the ‘mandatory conversation’

for new networks interested in applying ........................................... 17

Making an application ...................................................................... 18

When to apply .................................................................................. 18

Making an application ...................................................................... 18

Assistance with your application ..................................................... 20

After you submit your application ................................................... 20

Section seven – Freedom of Information Act ...................................... 25

Section eight – Data Protection ......................................................... 26

Contact us ......................................................................................... 26

Appendix A – Arts Council England recognised Subject Specialist

Networks as of July 2018 .................................................................... 27

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Section one – introduction

Welcome Thank you for your interest in Subject Specialist Networks 2018-20.

Background

Subject Specialist Networks exist to develop the museum sector’s curatorial

knowledge by capturing and sharing expertise associated with collections in a

sustainable way.

Arts Council England supports Subject Specialist Networks in order to meet our

own strategic aims around enabling all museums staff to have the required skills to

proactively develop, care for and also maximise public engagement with their

collections. This underpins Arts Council England’s Goal 3 and Goal 4 and this is

further explored in Section two and Section four.

The importance of maintaining and developing Subject Specialist Networks was

highlighted in the recent Mendoza Review and they are also central to the Art

Fund’s ‘21st Century curator’ report which looks at the evolving role of the UK

museum curator and their future needs. The Mendoza Review highlighted that

museums are struggling to make best use of their collections and to maintain

sufficient curatorial expertise with the result that many collections are considered

to be too static and underused. During 2018-2020 we will be re-thinking how best

to support Subject Specialist Networks in the context of the Mendoza Review

implementation and our work with NMDC and DCMS to develop a framework for

museum partnerships and our new 10-year strategy.

The strength of Subject Specialist Networks lies in their place to act as a conduit to

curatorial knowledge. They act as a recognised forum for the sharing of expertise,

research, mentoring and the development of best practice across and beyond the

sector. Sustainable Subject Specialist Networks are alert to the needs of network

users and provide and maintain tools for knowledge exchange such as an accessible

web platform to share ideas, issues and debate which will strengthen expertise

across the museum sector. This enables networks to connect to the widest pool of

knowledge and expertise, which will not always exist within the museum sector but

may be levered in from academia, practitioners working across the subject area

itself or a wider expert forum.

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This current funding opportunity will support Subject Specialist Networks in their

key role of equipping museum staff with sufficient subject expertise to confidently

and effectively curate museum collections so that they can deliver high quality

cultural experiences, create interesting and insightful narratives for users and

contribute to new avenues of academic enquiry and research around material

culture.

Subject Specialist Networks are either charitable bodies in their own right or are

less formal networks managed by a host museum, which have a mission statement

and a defined purpose as a Subject Specialist Network. They also have a

governance structure, such as a committee or board. Host museums are often

nationally funded museums or an Arts Council England National Portfolio

Organisation.

About Arts Council England

Arts Council England is the national development body for arts and culture across

England, working to enrich people’s lives. We support a range of activities across

the arts, museums and libraries – from theatre to visual art, reading to dance,

music to literature, and crafts to collections. Great art and culture inspires us,

brings us together and teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. In

short, it makes life better. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of

public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National

Lottery to help create these experiences for as many people as possible across the

country. www.artscouncil.org.uk

About Arts Council England’s Development funds 2018-22

Our Development funds help us to target particular challenges, opportunities or

gaps, creating the environment for further development to take place in the arts

and culture sector. Ultimately, they help us meet the goals set out in our strategy,

Great art and culture for everyone. Our goals, for reference, are as follows:

Goal 1: Excellence is thriving and celebrated in the arts, museums and

libraries

Goal 2: Everyone has the opportunity to experience and be inspired by the

arts, museums and libraries

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Goal 3: The arts, museums and libraries are resilient and environmentally

sustainable

Goal 4: The leadership and workforce in the arts, museums and libraries

are diverse and appropriately skilled

Goal 5: Every child and young person has the opportunity to experience the

richness of the arts, museums and libraries

All of these goals are important, but the Subject Specialist Network

Fund will prioritise applications that respond to Goal 3 and Goal 4.

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Section two – purpose of Subject Specialist Networks

Aims and outcomes

The central aims of this fund will support Subject Specialist Networks to:

• Build confidence in the museum sector in relation to dynamic collections

management and increased public engagement by sharing subject

specialist knowledge

• Contribute towards ensuring that staff working with collections have the

opportunity to develop and improve specialist subject knowledge

• Support the museum sector to develop and share curatorial knowledge

around given subject areas

• Enable the museums sector as a whole to develop new curatorial

knowledge around specialist subject areas

Subject Specialist Networks have a significant role to play in relation to meeting

our aims around dynamic collections curation and management, particularly when

museum staff need to make complex curatorial decisions around collections

management and require the back-up of peer expertise. We recognise the huge

responsibility that collections management and engagement represents and the

necessity of having access to expert knowledge for curatorial work, which is not

always available in-house. The sharing of ideas and techniques learnt by

experience of practice and study makes a crucial contribution to this work.

We expect that your project will have a primary emphasis on Goals 3 and 4. Whilst

we are not prescriptive about what we will fund, examples of the types of activity

that could be supported through Subject Specialist Network funding are listed in

Section four.

We also believe that Subject Specialist Networks should be able to grow organically

and respond flexibly to the needs of the specialist subject to which they relate. We

do not want to fund projects which merely support the Subject Specialist Network’s

existence and we wish to prioritise projects which can evidence how they will deal

with particular opportunities and challenges facing the subject area and which

focus on activity which will develop and sustain curatorial knowledge exchanges

into the future. We also expect proposals to have identifiable outcomes directly

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benefitting the specialist subject area in question and which explain why the

network applicant is best placed to lead this project.

Benefits of the proposed activity should not be solely confined to the network’s

membership. Funded activity must ultimately contribute to the core mission of

museums to provide appropriate collections development and care and effective

public engagement.

How much funding is available?

The total budget available for this fund is £700,000. It is drawn from the Arts

Council’s National Lottery funding.

Awards will be between £10,000 and £80,000.

We will accept applications for funding from organisations listed in Appendix A of

this guidance document, or, applications from new networks which can meet the

criteria set out in Section 3 and have had a mandatory conversation with the

Manager, Collections Management and Designation, Arts Council England. We will

also accept applications for funding from organisations working in a consortium.

One organisation must act as the lead organisation and submit the application.

Geographical focus of the fund

The geographical focus is designed to support Arts Council's intent to ensure that a

minimum of 75% of our Lottery funding is spent outside London. See the balancing

criteria for more information.

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Section three – eligibility

Please read the eligibility requirements for the fund carefully. If you do not meet

any of these requirements we will be unable to consider your application for

funding.

Who can apply?

We will accept applications from the following:

• Subject Specialist Networks which are

already recognised by Arts Council England.

These networks have been identified as

supporting major collection areas and they

revolve around a subject specialism and

are drawn from established professional

membership bodies, or less defined

networks of museums. These networks help

to develop the knowledge and expertise

associated with specialist collections. They

act as a democratic forum for the sharing

of expertise, research, mentoring and

developing best practice.

Please see Appendix A for the full list of

currently recognised Subject Specialist

Networks.

• Applications from a consortium of

recognised networks working together. One

organisation must act as the lead

organisation and submit the application.

• Applications from new networks, or

proposed networks which meet the

following criteria:

- The network is focussed on a particular

collection type not covered by another

network

- There is clear and robust evidence of the

need for the network

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- There is satisfactory evidence of support

from members or proposed members and

their host institutions

- The application is made through a lead

applicant who is either a formally

constituted organisation with a track record

in delivering services to the museum sector

or an Accredited museum on the network’s

behalf

Applicants applying as a new network must have a

mandatory conversation with the Manager,

Collections Management and Designation, Arts

Council England about their proposal and their

eligibility for the fund prior to submission.

All lead applicants must be either a

formally constituted organisation with a

track record in delivering services to the

museum sector or an Accredited museum.

Who cannot apply?

• Individuals

• Applicants that are not already on our

recognised list of Subject Specialist

Networks, unless they are a new network

who meet the requirements as set out above

and have had a mandatory conversation

with the Manager, Collections Management

and Designation, Arts Council England

prior to submission

• Organisations based outside of England

What activity can be

supported?

We expect that your project will have a primary

emphasis on Goals 3 and 4. Whilst we are not

prescriptive about what we will fund, examples of

the types of activity that could be supported

through Subject Specialist Network funding are:

• Developing best practice guidance

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• Developing downloadable collections

expertise, resources and tools

• Publishing new research around the subject

area

• Developing subject-focused advocacy

materials for museum staff

• Skills development opportunities

• Leadership development around the subject

area

• Fellowships and bursaries

• Emerging curators initiatives

• Seminars with a continued professional

development focus

What activity cannot be

funded?

In general, we will not support the following

expenditure:

• Collection purchase or acquisition

• Collections work with no explicit public benefit

in the longer term

• Activities that will not benefit the regional

museums sector in England

• Activities that duplicate work that already exists

• General running costs and overheads that are

already paid for by other income, including your

own funds

• Ongoing overheads relating to equipment or

buildings, such as insurance and maintenance

costs

• Activities that do not benefit or engage people

working with museum collections in England or

that do not help curators and museums staff to

carry out their work

• Activities (including buying goods or services)

that have started, been bought, ordered or

contracted before we make a decision about

your application. This is because we cannot fund

activity retrospectively

• Costs that are already paid for by other income

including your own funds or any other funding

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How much can be

applied for per

application?

• Between £10,000 and £80,000

How much match

funding from sources

other than ACE is

required?

• At least 10 per cent of the total cost of the

activity to come from sources other than the

Arts Council. This can include cash and in

kind support

Delivery timetable • Activities must start no earlier than 1

January 2019

• Activities must end no later than 30 June

2020

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Consortia and partnership agreements

We will accept applications for funding from recognised Subject Specialist

Networks working as a consortium. One organisation must act as the lead

organisation and submit the application.

All partners within the consortium must show a firm commitment to joint working.

Your application must show the benefits and rationale of working as a consortium.

If we decide to fund your project we will enter into a legally binding grant

agreement with the lead organisation. This organisation must accept our terms and

conditions of grant and will be solely accountable to us for all monitoring

information, how all the money is spent and for the full and successful delivery of

the project.

One of our standard terms and conditions of grant is that the organisation we enter

into a grant agreement with cannot subcontract any of the project to other

organisations without our prior agreement in writing. So if we award a grant, before

the project can start, we must approve a partnership agreement between the lead

organisation and the other partners involved in the project.

There is further guidance about Partnership agreements on our website.

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Section four – what you will be expected to deliver

We welcome applications that will make a contribution to achieving the aims and

outcomes outlined in Section two above.

We expect that your project will have a primary emphasis on Goals 3 and 4. Whilst

we are not prescriptive about what we will fund, examples of the types of activity

that could be supported through Subject Specialist Network funding are as follows:

Activity responding to Goal 3:

• Updating existing curatorial guidelines or developing new best practice

guidelines in subject areas

• Developing accessible collections advice resources and tools which can be

made available on a sustained basis

• Publishing new research around the subject area

• Developing subject-focused advocacy materials for museum staff

• Convening seminars and conferences in the subject matter

• Delivering expert-led training courses in a variety of accessible formats

• Undertaking collections research which will be of benefit to museums

working within the relevant subject matter

• Gathering research data around identified collections areas for the use and

benefit of the whole museum sector

Activity responding to Goal 4:

• Providing skills development opportunities for curatorial staff to develop

expertise or develop emerging curators initiatives

• Provide leadership development around the subject area

• Fellowships, bursaries and mentoring schemes in relation to developing

curatorial subject knowledge

• Emerging curators initiatives

• Providing leadership development and the creation of fairer entry and

progression routes, as well as more diverse leadership and governance that

reflects the diversity of society as whole

In relation to projects offering training, applicants are strongly encouraged to

think about knowledge exchange models which offer a variety of support

mechanisms to ensure that the widest possible constituency of museum staff are

supported in the longer term.

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Each grant recipient will be expected to build in capacity to evaluate impact. Grant

recipients will be encouraged to self-audit against an agreed framework to assess

their age friendliness before and after the activity supported by the grant.

Grant recipients will also be asked to write a public facing version of their final

report and to describe the impact of their activity and lessons learned.

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Section five – how to apply

Talking to us about your application – the ‘mandatory conversation’ for

new networks interested in applying

If you are a new network, once you have read the guidance and started to think

about your application, you must speak to the Manager, Collections Management

and Designation, Arts Council England about your proposal in detail. We use the

term ‘mandatory conversation’ to describe this scheduled, structured conversation,

which often takes place by telephone. The purpose of the mandatory conversation

is to ensure that new networks have fully considered all of the criteria and

requirements of the fund before submitting an application.

You must have this mandatory conversation before submitting your application for

Subject Specialist Network funding. The deadline for mandatory conversations to

have taken place is Thursday 2 August 2018. Please contact our Customer

Services team to find out more about this.

We will arrange a time to speak with you. As a general guide, we would aim to

cover the following points:

• How is the network constituted or hosted?

• What is the remit of the network and how has this been formalised?

• What evidence has been gathered to demonstrate the need for this network?

• What will be its governance structure?

• How does the network currently communicate with colleagues working with

collections relating to the specialist subject in question?

• How will the network finances be managed?

Once you have had this conversation with the designated member of staff, we will

send you an email to confirm that the mandatory conversation has been

completed. You can then submit your application at any time, uploading a copy of

the email we have sent you as supporting information (see the Attachments section

of the online application form for instructions on where to do this).

We will not be able to read or provide written comment on draft applications.

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It is your responsibility to develop and write the application, including what you

feel to be all the relevant information. We will talk with all potential new networks

but cannot guarantee success for any applicant.

Making an application

When to apply

The online application form will open on Grantium at 12pm (midday)

Thursday 12 July 2018. Applications must be submitted by 12pm (midday)

on Thursday 23 August 2018. Applications submitted after this time will not

be considered.

Before you can start an application, you need to create a user account and

applicant profile. You cannot start your eligibility questionnaire or application

until we have approved your new applicant profile, which may take up to ten

working days from when you submit to us.

For a step by step guide to creating a user account and applicant profile, and advice

and guidance about using our grant management system, please see the pages on

our website here.

Making an application

1. Read this guidance carefully and contact us.

This guidance gives you information on how to apply and answers some

common questions. If you have any further questions you can contact our

Customer Services team at enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk

2. Prepare and submit your proposal You must apply through Grantium

For technical guidance on how to submit your application through Grantium

please read our Grantium guidance for applicants – Development Funds.

Proposal

The proposal can be a maximum of 40,000 characters, divided into three sections:

‘Meeting the Brief’ (20,000 characters), ‘Management of the activity’ (10,000

characters) and ‘Financial viability’ (10,000 characters). You do not need to use the

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full character count if you do not feel it is necessary. Use the criteria/prompts in

section six of this guidance to help you structure your proposal.

Attachments

You must upload the following mandatory attachments on the

‘Attachments’ screen:

• A detailed budget for the activity showing proposed income and

expenditure (as an Excel sheet or similar)

• A cashflow for the project activity

• A work plan for the proposed project, including milestones and key

review dates

• The email we sent confirming that you had a mandatory conversation

with the Manager, Collections Management and Designation, Arts

Council England (if applying as a new network)

• Financial statements for your previous financial year, prepared to the

relevant legal standard for an organisation of your size and status

(non-National Portfolio Organisations only)

• Your latest management accounts (non-National Portfolio

Organisations only)

You may also upload the following optional attachments:

• Up to three other relevant attachments. These must each be a

maximum of five pages in length.

Allowable formats: jpg, xls, xlsx, jpeg, pdf, doc, docx, pptx, and ppt.

The combined limit on file size for all the attachments taken together is 10

megabytes.

We will use the information you give us in your application form and any

attachments to decide whether we will offer you a grant. If your application does

not contain the information we need in the format we ask for it to be in, we might

not be able to consider your application. After you have read this guidance, if you

have any further questions please contact us.

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Assistance with your application

We are committed to being open and accessible, and want to make the Subject

Specialist Network funding application process accessible to everyone.

If you experience any barriers within the application process or require help to

make an application, our enquiries team can be contacted by:

• Telephone on: 0845 300 6200

• Text phone: +44(0) 161 934 4428

• Email: enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk

After you submit your application

You will receive an acknowledgement email confirming that we have received your

application. This will be sent to the email address which you used to log into the

portal.

We will conduct an eligibility check within ten working days of the deadline for

applications. If your application is not eligible, this means that we cannot process it

any further and it will not be considered for funding. If your application is not

eligible we will write to you to let you know, and will explain our decision.

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Section six – how we will make our decision

We will aim to notify applicants of our decision no later than 7 December 2018.

We will check your application to ensure that you have provided all the

information we have requested.

We will make our decision based on the information you provide in your

application, any further information that we request and, where relevant, data and

information from the Charity Commission and Companies House websites relating

to your constitution and audited accounts from the past two years.

Each criterion (‘Meeting the brief’, ‘Management of the activity’, and ‘Financial

viability’) will be assessed using a five-point word scoring:

• Not met

The application does not meet the criteria

• Potential

The application does not meet the criteria but shows potential to do so

• Met

The application meets the criteria

• Met (strong)

The application meets the criteria and shows strong qualities

• Met (outstanding)

The application meets the criteria and shows outstanding qualities

On the basis of these ratings we will recommend whether an application is suitable

for funding. Applications that do not achieve at least 'met’ under all three criteria

will not be recommended for funding.

We will assess each application against the following criteria:

Criteria

Meeting the brief

Character count: up to 20,000 characters

Please tell us:

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• How your application will deliver on the fund’s aims and outcomes and all

the elements of what you will be expected to deliver, as described in this

brief

• The research you have done in planning and developing your activity

• How the activity relates to best practice

• How this activity fits in with your current work and its future

development, and how it makes the network more sustainable

• How it will support museum staff to enable more people to experience or

engage with museums

• How you will support museum staff to ensure that collections and the

knowledge which is shared and developed about collections, represents

and reflects the diversity of contemporary England

• How you have considered access, equality and diversity in your activity

• How you will support leadership development and the creation of fairer

entry and progression routes, as well as more diverse leadership and

governance that reflects the diversity of society as a whole

• How you will make the output and outcomes of the project available to the

broadest range of beneficiaries

• The role of collaborations or partnerships in your activity

• The expected longer-term impact and legacy of the activity

• How you will evaluate the outcomes outlined in your application

• How you will share the results of the activity with others and the wider

sector (including what you have learned from the activity and good

practice)

Management of the activity

Character count: up to 10,000 characters

• Feasibility of workplan

• Demonstration of skill and capacity to deliver the proposed programme

• Strong strategic fit with the applicant’s other activity

• Appropriate governance arrangements in place and/or planned, including

how partners are engaged

• What risks you have identified and how you will manage them

• How you have considered a progression strategy for the project

Financial viability

Character count: up to 10,000 characters

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• Financial viability of the applicant and of the project

• Demonstration of appropriateness of proposed budget

• Robust plans for resourcing the activity effectively

• How you will manage the finances for the activity, including the financial

controls that are in place

• Evidence of organisational buy-in by applicant and project partners, as cash

investment and/or in-kind support

In assessing the application, we will also consider these balancing criteria:

1. Geographical spread and reach: we will take into account the need to

support work across the whole of England. We will take into account the potential

reach of the portfolio of applications as a whole and we are particularly interested

in how organisations plan to make the outcomes of their project available to all

museum staff.

2. Diversity: we will also take diversity into account in terms of the focus and

outcomes of the project itself as well as the beneficiaries of the project activity, and

we are particularly interested in how organisations will make the output and

outcomes of the project available to the broadest range of beneficiaries.

3. Network focus: we will also consider the coverage of curatorial subjects by the

portfolio of applications. We are particularly interested in supporting a broad

range of subject areas in order to meet the needs of museum staff working with as

many different curatorial subjects as possible.

These balancing criteria will be used in addition to the main criteria to ensure a

good spread of funded projects according to each balancing criterion, and to

differentiate between a number of proposals that are considered fundable.

Decision making

Once we have scored your application and a recommendation has been made

whether to fund it, we will make our decision. To do this, we will consider how

strongly your activity scored against our criteria, the risks we have noted and any

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balancing criteria we have outlined above. We will also consider your activity

alongside other applications to the fund.

Complaints procedure

If you are not happy with the way we have dealt with your application, please

contact us and we will discuss this with you. If you are still unhappy, you can ask

us for a copy of our complaints procedure.

Details can be found in Making a complaint, which is available on our website,

www.artscouncil.org.uk, or by contacting our enquiries team by email to

enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk or by phoning 0845 300 6200.

Please note that you can only complain if you believe we have not followed our

published procedures when assessing your application. You cannot appeal against

the decision.

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Section seven – Freedom of Information Act

The Arts Council is committed to being as open as possible. We believe that the

public has a right to know how we spend public funds and how we make our

funding decisions.

We are also listed as a public authority under the Freedom of Information Act

2000. By law, we may have to provide your application documents and

information about our assessment to any member of the public who asks for them

under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We may not release those parts of the documents which are covered by one or

more of the exemptions under the Act. Please see the Freedom of Information

website at www.ico.gov.uk for information about freedom of information generally

and the exemptions.

We will not release any information about applications during the assessment

period, as this may interfere with the decision-making process.

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Section eight – Data Protection

The Arts Council is committed to using any personal information (or personal

data) we collect on a lawful, fair and transparent basis, respecting your legal rights

as an individual in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation

(2016/679), the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and other applicable laws that

regulate the use and privacy of personal data (Data Protection Law).

As part of us meeting this requirement, we have published our General Privacy

Notice for you to refer to here. This tells you more about the personal data The Arts

Council collects; the different purposes that we use it for and on what legal basis;

who we may share that personal data with; how long we keep it; and your legal

rights, including your right to contact us and receive information regarding the

personal data about you that we may hold from time to time.

For further information about our obligations and your rights under Data

Protection Law, as well as how to report a concern if you believe that your personal

data is being collected or used illegally, please also see the Information

Commissioner Office website at www.ico.gov.uk.

Contact us

Arts Council England

The Hive

49 Lever Street

Manchester

M1 1FN

Website: www.artscouncil.org.uk

Phone: 0845 300 6200

Email: enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk

Textphone: +44(0) 161 934 4428

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Appendix A – Arts Council England recognised Subject Specialist

Networks as of July 2018

These networks have been identified as supporting major collection areas and they

revolve around a subject specialism and are drawn from established professional

membership bodies, or less defined networks of museums. These networks help to

develop the knowledge and expertise associated with specialist collections. They

act as a democratic forum for the sharing of expertise, research, mentoring and

developing best practice.

Many other types of communities of practice and groups exist – these tend to focus

on generic topics such as learning and education, or broad museum activities like

registrars, conservation or security. These are outside of the Subject Specialist

Network remit, but often enjoy mutually supportive relationships with these

networks.

1. Army Museums Ogilby Trust (AMOT)

2. Art UK

3. Association of Performing Art Collections (APAC)

4. Association of British Transport & Engineering Museums (ABTEM)

5. Association of Curators for Collections from Egypt and Sudan (ACCES)

6. British Art Network

7. British Aviation Preservation Council

8. Chinese Collections Group

9. Contemporary Art Society

10. Contemporary Studio Ceramics

11. Crime and Punishment Collections Network

12. Dress and Textiles Specialists (DATS)

13. European Paintings Pre-1900

14. Fire Heritage Network

15. Geological Curators Group

16. Human Remains Subject Specialist Network

17. Inland Waterways Network

18. Islamic Art and Material Culture Subject Specialist Network

19. Maritime Curators Group

20. Medieval Pottery Research Group

21. Money and Medals Network

22. Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG)

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23. Musical Instruments Resources Network

24. National Banner Initiative

25. Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA)

26. Plastics Subject Specialist Network

27. The Photographic Collections Network

28. Rural Museums Network

29. Seaside Heritage Network

30. Social History Curators Group

31. Society for Museum Archaeology

32. Society of Decorative Art Curators

33. Sport in Museums Network

34. UK Medical Collections Group

35. Understanding British Portraits