Successfully obtaining funds for your museum or gallery requires knowledge and creativity. Access to Funding is a workshop delivering specialist knowledge to make accessing funds a reality.

1. Royal Australian historical
society (RAHS)
Access to Funding
June 2016 MGNSW Workshop
Suzanne Holohan, General Manager

2. Stream 1: Administration : Reputation for
professional and successful grant
administration
1967 – Cultural Grants funded by Arts NSW
1991 - Heritage Grants funded by Office of
Environment and Heritage
2015 – Transport Heritage grants funded by
Transport NSW, administered with support from
Transport Heritage.
RAHS & Grants

3. Stream 2 : Apply, deliver and acquit grant
funded programs : understand grant
process from applicants perspective.
• We apply to run Cultural Grants and Heritage
Grants
• Receive grants from National Library of
Australia, City of Sydney, Club grants, NSW
Premier Office grants, Office of Environment
and Heritage, Office of Liquor and Gambling

4. Opening July
Transport NSW - $150,000 (ongoing)
Closing June
Cultural Grants - $50,000 (2016 – 2018)
Heritage grants - $23,400 (2015-2016)
2016 Current Grant

5. TRANSPORT GRANTS

6. Rediscover the culture, the events and the people that shaped transport in
NSW over the past 160 years, as well as support the restoration and
conservation of our priceless heritage assets.
Category 1: Restoration and Conservation- to
restore and conserve rail, tram and bus heritage assets
(which are not eligible for other Govt. funding)
Category 2: Education- to educate the community
about NSW transport heritage
Category 3 Research and Publication- Innovation
through digital research and print interpretation projects
Goals of Program

7. Category 1 and 2 - Open to organisations only.
Category 3 – Organisations, and individuals who are
members of Transport Heritage NSW.
• Suitable projects include
• the restoration of a transport heritage asset owned
by your organisation
• promoting the history or facilities of a group to local
schools or community groups
• digital research and print interpretation that
highlights of NSW Transport history
Eligibility and
Suitability

8. • Payments is made up-front
• 12 months to deliver project from date of payment
• Milestone reporting – quarterly or half-yearly
• Doesn’t fund following:
• Normal administrative expenses
• Retrospective funding underway
• Travel expenses
• Reprints
Other key points

9. Category 1: 8 Projects
Category 2: 3 Projects
Category 3 : 2 Projects
Highest Amount : $49,885
Lowest Amount : $875
Average: $11K
2015 – Review

10. Successful grant applicants all had
• a clearly defined and manageable project
scope
• a realistic budget
• strongly conveyed the heritage value of their
project.
Assessors also looked favourably upon
projects that demonstrated community and
2015 – Review

11. $20,000 - Sydney Bus Museum interpretation
project.

12. CULTURAL

13. • Assists historical research and publication
of local, community and regional history
• Not-for-profit incorporated organisation or
auspiced by one
• Suitable projects:
• Publications ( digital and printed)
• Oral histories
• Education programs
• Protecting research resource and
increasing their availablity
Goals and Eligibility

14. • Payments is made up-front
• 12 months to deliver project from date of payment
• Milestone reporting –half-yearly
• Doesn’t fund following:
• Normal administrative expenses, retrospective funding,
reprints
• Capital Expenditure
• All physical materials associated with exhibitions and
displays (panels, story boards, exhibition cases etc)
• Regional Seminar Program and training
Other key points

15. Project types : 13 publications, 3 web‐based
and 6 digitisation projects
Highest Amount : $4,000
Average: $2 K
Oral History Projects: contribute to historical
understanding, accessibility.
Full assessment report on web-site
2015 – Review

16. HERITAGE

17. • Assists historical research and publication of
local, community and regional history
• Individual or community organisation
• Suitable projects:
• Researching and presenting a local history
• A local archives collection management plan,
or
• A local digital image or photographic
collections management plan.
Goals and Eligibility

18. • Payments is made on presentation of receipt
• 12 months to deliver project from date of payment
• Milestone reporting –half-yearly
• Doesn’t fund following:
• Normal administrative expenses, retrospective funding,
reprints
• Capital Expenditure
• Printing publication costs
• Heritage trails, local heritage celebrations and
plaque projects
Other key points

19. Project types : 4 individuals, 4 organisations
Highest Amount : $5,000
Average: $3 K
Oral History Projects: contribute to historical
understanding, accessibility.
Full assessment report on web-site
2015 – Review

20. What steps should you take next if you are
interested in applying?
• Visit the RAHS website
www.rahs.org.au/grants
• Look at last year’s application forms on our
website and successful applicants
• Contact RAHS to discuss your possible grant
application at grants@rahs.org.au or 9247
8001
• Prepare a plan for your project, look at getting
quotes to support your project and formulate a