Small Grants Fund

About the fund:

The Small Grants Fund provides support for small scale project activity but it is also there to support any Accredited museums struggling to meet critical, non-project costs due to the depletion of reserves or budgets as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It cannot support core-operating costs but it can support essential repairs, maintenance and resources. It can also support activity that is about recovering visitor numbers, management of collections, building resilience or reducing costs (including through improving environmental sustainability).

Who can apply for this funding?

Any organisation that runs an Accredited Museum in Scotland.

Partnership applications are welcome and we can accept applications from formally constituted groups of museums with their own bank accounts or from an Accredited museum applying on behalf of the partnership.

Organisations that have been issued with a temporary Accreditation number having gone through the formal “Working Towards Accreditation” eligibility process are eligible to apply for up to £5,000. (Please note that the Working Towards Accreditation eligibility process is not the same as the grant eligibility process that MGS operated for Covid related funding in 2020 and 2021. If you have been through the WTA process you will already have a temporary Accreditation number and provisional deadline for submitting your application for full Accreditation.