About this event
The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub is a new national programme led by The National Archives in partnership with Leeds Museums & Galleries, the National Library of Wales, and the Community Archives & Heritage Group. Funded by the AHRC (UKRI), the Hub will support inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) and heritage sectors.
It will offer three grant schemes—Seed Corn Grants, Skills Bursaries, and Project Grants—totalling £550,000, alongside a programme of training, digital skills development, and network-building. The Hub will also create a permanent digital platform to share resources, learning, and best practice, ensuring that community engagement becomes a lasting part of the national collection. Designed to empower underrepresented communities and build confidence across the sector, the Hub will be a collaborative, flexible, and sustainable space for innovation and inclusion.
With applications for our Seed Corn Grants and Skills Bursaries opening on the 15th September 2025, this launch webinar will take you through each grant scheme in detail, covering everything from eligibility to assessment criteria to budgets - and anything else that might be useful! There will also be a Q&A at the end to enable you to ask any extra questions you may have about this programme.
The webinar will be recorded, but the Q&A will not.
Additional information
We welcome and encourage applications to our funding from people of all backgrounds and are committed to making our application process accessible to everyone. This includes providing support, in the form of reasonable adjustments, for people who have a disability or a long-term condition and face barriers applying to us.
Should you have any access needs, please do contact us in advance using sophie.ansteedemas@nationalarchives.gov.uk.
