The final deadline for CPD Grant applications for 2016 is 15th September. In the past five years, the Anna Plowden Trust has awarded 64 CPD grants to conservators working in 42 institutions and private practices. Apply now if you want to be considered for a grant in September 2016, the final CPD grant round this year.

Many congratulations to Anna Plowden Trust Chairman, Dr David Saunders, on his appointment as the inaugural Getty Rothschild Fellow. The eight month fellowship will be spent partly at the Getty Conservation Institute and will run from January to June 2017.

Congratulations to Willard Conservation - the team has won the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2016. Willard Conservation, founding sponsors of the Anna Plowden Trust, have been named the winners of the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise – the UK’s highest accolade for business success.

The winners of the Icon Conservation Awards 2015 were announced at a ceremony hosted by the Royal Academy of Art’s Artistic Director Tim Marlow on Thursday 22 October 2015 at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The 2015 Anna Plowden Award for Research and Innovation was won by Tate, for the Rothko conservation project.   MANY congratulations to the Tate team!

The projects shortlisted for the 2015 Award are: The Magna Carta Project  The British Library IWM and the War Against Dust: Space vacuums, air bazookas and duster drones  Imperial War Museum The Rothko Conservation Project  Tate 

Thanks to fundraising success in recent years, the Trustees were able to award more bursaries than ever before - 19 awards to students studying on 13 courses at nine different institutions across the UK.

The Anna Plowden Trust has supported the Conservation Awards for many years and the Trustees are pleased to be able, once again, to offer The Anna Plowden Trust Award for Research and Innovation in Conservation as part of the 2015 Awards.

The Icon Conservation Awards 2015 are sponsored by Beko and the awards themselves are offered by a number of partners including the Pilgrim Trust, the Institute for Mechanical Engineers and the Anna Plowden Trust as well as by Beko

Two practising conservators who are past recipients of Conservation Bursaries from the Anna Plowden Trust, Tristram Bainbridge and Carol Weiss, have joined the Trust's board. Tristram is a furniture conservator in private practice who also teaches at West Dean and Carol is a paper conservator at the British Museum.

Seventeen bursaries have been awarded for the 2014-15 academic year to individuals who will be studying on 12 different conservation programmes at 15 institutions.  Specialisms to be studied include: stained glass, textiles, paintings, books and paper, archives, archaeological collections and ceramics.