The Resilience Grants programme has been designed to support archive services, organisations with archives, and archives networks to be adaptable, resilient and sustainable, creating lasting solutions that enable them to respond to change, and contribute to communities and the economy.
This grant is open to organisations with archives (including heritage organisations) and archive networks in the UK. Public sector bodies, not-for-profit organisations including registered charities, and for-profit organisations including business archives can apply for grants of up to £20,000 for projects lasting up to one year.
The fund can cover most things associated with resilience-building activities that the organisation has identified as a priority.
Projects could include, but are not limited to:
- Proposals that would lead to increased organisational stability, including long-term organisational, financial and strategic planning.
- Increased staffing capacity and enhanced skills.
- Reduced costs.
- Increased income.
- Improving capacity to develop, care for and enrich collections, physically and digitally.
- Ensuring that collections are safely preserved, including digitally.
- Work on diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Responses to climate change, such as developing energy-efficiency within an archives service.
- Strategic development of existing archive networks or establishment of new networks with a clear strategic focus.
If the archive is not currently accessible for public use, the organisation must have the intention to make the collection freely accessible to the public in the future. The organisation must employ or have access to professional support from an archivist or similarly qualified professional.
There is a one-stage application. There are usually two application rounds per year.
The next deadline for applications is 21 January 2026.