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).
2 replies on “More money in the bag!”
Hallo Sue and everyone at the Library. First, CONGRATULATIONS on such great results to your very hard work in finding funding to do the important things we all want the WOMEN’S LIBRARY to do. You deserve champagne far less tea! I’d like to put a piece into the LOCAL NEWS if that’s ok? But I’ll probably phone or email you from to get more detail.
Second, I’m looking for input to a programme I help run with the INTERNATIONAL WELCOME CLUB of Wellington Church which is the big greek temple building opposite Glasgow University main gates on University Avenue. The Club meets in the church hall, Southpark Avenue, G12 8LE on Friday evenings at 7.30pm. An average of around 15-20 attend (male and female). They’re from all around the world. On Friday 24 April at 7.30pm we’ve programmed a WEST END WALK – a stroll round Glasgow’s West End with knowledgeable people who can tell us about the people who’ve walked this way before us. We have people within the group who can do this but I thought it might be an opportunity for the Library trainee tour guides to strutt their stuff? Do you think anyone would be interested/free to input on the night or even conduct the whole tour? Everything is done on a volunteer basis so we cannot offer a fee nor do we charge but we’d certainly offer a coffee at the end of the evening for we’d intend ending up in some coffee shop somewhere. Look forward to your response when you’ve had time to consider it.
kind regards
Grace Franklin
Thanks for your kind words, Grace.