Purchase Grant Fund: About the fund
The Crown Princess Takes Tea, a group of glasswares by Katherine Coleman, 2009, bought by Norfolk Museums Service with a grant from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund
The V&A Purchase Grant Fund is managed by the V&A as part of its UK work. The grants budget, which is £750,000 for 2012/13, is provided by Arts Council England.
The Fund supports the purchase of a wide range material for the permanent collections of non-nationally funded organisations in England and Wales. Recent grants include a collection of memorabilia relating to Donald Campbell’s waterspeed record attempts at Coniston (Ruskin Museum, Coniston), a chair commissioned from Frank Baier (Crafts Study Centre, Farnham), a collection of Dundas family papers (North Yorkshire County Record Office) and an early medieval sword pommel cap from Marston Maisey (Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes).
Demand is always very strong and funds are allocated to enable as many acquisitions as possible to be made. Each year the Fund considers about 250 applications and enables acquisitions of over £3 million to go ahead.
The Fund, run by the V&A since 1881, retains an interest in the organisations and objects it supports and collections they join and ensures that the terms of grant offer continue to be met.
Download grants given in 2011-12 (PDF file, 70 KB)
Download grants given in 2010-11 (PDF file, 74.9 KB)
All enquiries and requests for forms should be directed to the V&A's UK section:
Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2536
E-mail: purchasegrantfund@vam.ac.uk
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