Talking Nature

Applications for this grant open early September 2024 (information available from June 2024)

Grants available: fixed grants of £5,000

Following on from the success of The Wild Escape in 2023, we want to support museums to develop partnerships with local schools, explore the natural world and consider the environmental crisis. This grant scheme is perfectly suited to museums with natural history collections, or any museum with connections to the natural world within their collections. Are there animals in your collection ready to escape and engage imaginations? Or perhaps there are countryside artworks perfect to inspire responses? For further inspiration, take a look at some of the projects developed as part of The Wild Escape.

We encourage museums to co-develop projects with school partners to ensure they are designed to deliver outcomes for both museums and schools. All the information for this grant scheme will be available from June 2024 to allow discussions with schools and teachers ahead of the application window in September 2024. Projects can run until January 2026 to allow for maximum engagement with schools over the academic year.

We are offering museums a fixed grant of £5,000 to put towards projects that support this work. While not essential, we encourage match funding to help make engagement work go further.