To recap: last June we were informed of our success in our bid for funding to the Heritage Lottery Fund and have duly been awarded £410,000: about £230,000 for capital costs to build dedicated archive rooms in our new Mitchell Library space, and the rest for a three year project to employ an Archivist to train volunteers in conservation and archive skills and to run a series of national events. Yippee indeed. The Archivist post will be advertised soon and we can then start the project.
Now there is more exciting news and more success. The Robertson Trust has awarded us £75,000 towards building costs to construct our education / lifelong learning floor in the Mitchell premises. Thank you Robertson Trust! It is no easy feat to secure this level of funding from this highly respected giver of grants, and we are overjoyed.
That’s £300,000 secured – quite a few noughts still to go but it’s looking good!
In the meantime – Women on the Shelf! Check out this new fundraising initiative and invest your support. Every penny goes towards the building fund. For as little as a tenner you will be part of history in the new Women’s Library of Scotland.
On with the work (after a cup of tea – oh, there goes a Twitter).
