Expanding Horizons
Double your impact on UK museums this March!
Museums thrive because of the passion and dedication of their teams.
But, museum professionals now face unprecedented challenges – from severe understaffing to devastating funding cuts, putting our beloved museums and collections at risk.
Will you donate? Double your impact for museum professionals today. This month, all donations made between March 3-31 will be matched pound for pound.
Watch our short film featuring the dedicated teams who make these wonderful places possible.
Please support the people who bring museums to life. Your donation will help enrich our collections and share more art and culture with everyone.
Our goal
Understaffing due to funding cuts is already having a devastating impact on preserving and sharing culture with audiences. Currently only 6% of the people working in museums are from Global Majority backgrounds and there is a shortage of career building opportunities. In 2025 our goal is to commit at least £700,000 to kickstart a bold new investment in projects and opportunities that support a diverse and skilled museum workforce, enabling them to tell even more compelling stories for everyone to enjoy.
What we’re doing with your support
Thanks to your help, we’re creating positive change through:
A new career development program for diverse curators
Support for collections research and innovation
Grants for professional development and training
UK-wide collaboration opportunities to build expertise
Keep our museums thriving with culturally rich collections
Curators are central to delivering inspiring and diverse collections, making museums places we love to visit. That’s why we provide bursaries to help these museum professionals take part in London Gallery Weekend, the largest event of its kind in the world. Since 2016, we've also helped curators to attend a two-day programme of talks, tours and workshops at Frieze Masters.
Attending an event in London can be expensive, but with our support curators from museums from across the UK can connect with their peers and make crucial contacts.
The bursary provided me with a much-needed opportunity to see new work and connect with galleries, gallerists and organisations directly.
We also fund projects that create exciting opportunities for curators from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds. Recently, the New Art Gallery Walsall teamed up with GRAIN Projects to create REFLECTOR, a programme offering mentoring for 20 early-career curators, artists and photographers, resulting in an exhibition at the gallery this autumn.
With your help, we can do so much more. Our upcoming funding programme, Empowering Curators, will help create new posts and support existing roles for curators from diverse backgrounds – helping museum teams to better reflect society today.
The barriers – race, gender, class – that hinder myself and so many other people from getting into the field; I think this programme has really levelled the playing field for us.
Can you help us fund more opportunities like these?
Donate today and double your impact on UK museums. Donations made between 3-31 March will be matched pound for pound.
Thank you for supporting the dedicated teams behind our museums – so that they can keep telling the stories that inspire and connect us.
Every contribution, no matter how small, makes a meaningful impact.
We are a charity dedicated to helping museums and galleries across the UK.
Frequently asked questions
Need help?
If you are unable to find the information you need in our frequently asked questions please do not hesitate to contact our Supporter Services team.