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  • Application deadlines for 2021

    Our application deadlines for 2021 are:

    Plowden Scholarships
    The deadline for applications for the 2021/22 academic year will be June 1st 2021

    Clothworkers' Foundation/Plowden CPD Grants

    January 18th, 2021
    April 5th, 2021
    June 1st, 2021
    and September 13th, 2021

    Clothworkers' Foundation/Plowden Covid-19 Grants

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  • Latest news - support for conservation students graduating in 2020

    In response to the loss of practical training suffered by some conservation students as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Anna Plowden Trust and The Clothworkers’ Foundation are making available a limited number of grants for up to £1,000 to allow those graduating from recognised UK conservation training programmes in 2020 to gain further practical training or experience, for example by offering support towards the costs of deferred or additional short-term placements

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  • Government Covid support - act now!

    The Government recently announced a £1.75bn Cultural Recovery Package. The main schemes announced so far that are relevant to collecting institutions and conservators are: Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage (£92m) Culture Recovery Grants Programme (£500m) Culture Recovery Fund: Repayable Finance (£270m) If your organisation or conservation practice is eligible and in financial difficulty due to Covid do apply to the relevant fund. The more applications that are received the more the need will be demonstrated. The deadline for applications to the different pots of funding vary but timing is tight, so you need to act quickly.

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  • Anna Plowden/Clothworkers’ Foundation CPD grants: important news

    Our final 2020 deadline for CPD grant applications is September 14th; we welcome applications for in-person or online CPD events.  The application form can be found here, along with guidelines and FAQs.

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  • Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion

    At a special meeting the Trustees discussed inclusivity and diversity and what we can do to foster both. As well as reviewing our own procedures, we are working on plans to collaborate with others in order to introduce more young people to conservation as a career option. The work of conservators as guardians of cultural heritage is both a responsibility and a privilege - one that should be open to all.

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  • Read our latest Annual Report

    The Anna Plowden Trust's Annual Report for 2019 has now been published. This was a record year, with more funding being invested in conservation training that ever before. Find out about our grants, and our all-important supporters, and read short features on some of the students and conservators supported during the year.

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  • Covid-19 update

    Find out the implications of Covid-19 for your planned grant application or for a grant that you have already been awarded.

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  • First CPD grants of 2020

    The Trustees considered the first CPD grant applications of 2020 at the end of January and awarded the first twelve Anna Plowden/Clothworkers' Foundation CPD grants of the year.

    The grants will benefit conservators at the Bodleian Library, British Museum, National Library of Scotland, Tate, University of Glasgow, V&A and York Glaziers Trust.  A further three are self-employed and two work in private practice.

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  • Further support from The Clothworkers' Foundation

    We're delighted to announce that The Clothworkers' Foundation has generously awarded further funding for CPD grants in 2020. Thanks to this support we will be able to award more than 50 CPD grants for practising conservators in 2020.

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