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News Update for London's Museums @LondonMusDev E-update for London’s Museums – 09 November 2020 The 4 week long national lockdown began on Thursday 05 November, meaning museums and galleries should now be closed in line with government guidance until at least Wednesday 02 December. It has been announced that some heritage locations can still be visited if they are outside – provided current social distancing rules are observed. You can find further information about that on the Gov.uk website. You can get an overview of all of the new national restrictions on the gov.uk website. We strongly advise that you continue to follow the news and government announcements, as they happen, over the coming days and weeks. Last week the government announced further extensions to the furlough scheme, to March 2021. The government will extend furlough payments at the original 80%, up to a maximum of £2,500 per employee. Employers will only need to cover pension and National Insurance contributions during the month of November, but can top up the remaining 20% of their staff salaries if they wish. To be eligible for this extension, employees must have been on the payroll by 30 October 2020, but they do not need to have been furloughed before that date. Workers who were made redundant in advance of the planned end of the furlough scheme on 31 October can be rehired under the current furlough extension. The relevant section is 2.4 in the policy paper which can be found here. The government has also announced that businesses required to close in England due to local or national restrictions will be eligible for Business Grants of up to £3,000 per month, dependent on their rateable value. You can get an overview of this announcement on the gov.uk website. Further information will likely be posted on this page, when announced. We at London Museum Development are pleased to announce the recipients of our Diversity Matters Programme grants. Bruce Castle Museum, Headstone Manor and Museum and the Museum of Croydon have been successful in securing this year’s funding. These grants will help them work with local BAME artists and/or community groups to co-curate, co-produce and co-create a public exhibition in March 2021 through either a contemporary collecting or re-visiting collections project. You can find further details about the Diversity Matters programme on our website. Arts Council England’s relaunched National Lottery Project Grants have been designed to help fund organisations, creative practitioners and freelancers as quickly as possible. New supplementary guidance for museums can be found on their website. In addition, from 5 October until March 2021, NPOs will be eligible to apply to National Lottery Project Grants for activities over £15,000. Further details about the National Lottery Project Grants can be found below. You can also find a recording of the refresher session on Project Grants, delivered by ACE’s Sue Barnard, Senior Relationship Manager and Mirka Kotulicova, Relationship Manager, Museums, on our YouTube channel. We have a number of new training sessions open for bookings in our Strong and Safe programme, including a session this Wednesday on ‘Museum and archive programming for a new normal’, application deadline is tomorrow at 12pm (Tuesday 10 November). In our Digital Training programme, we have sessions on ‘Engaging audiences digitally during lockdown’, ‘Rights Management for a Changed World’ and ‘An Introduction to Live Streaming’. Through Skills Plus we have ‘GDPR and Data Protection in a Changed World’ and a new six part training series, focusing on ‘Developing an Inclusive Museum’, part of our Diversity Matters programme. You can find more of our training advertised below. We have new video resources on our YouTube channel. These include tutorials such as ‘Image Editing’, ‘Creating a digital 360 tour of your museum’, and ‘Video Editing’, and recordings of training sessions such as, ‘Planning for Alternative Futures’ and a series of training sessions on using social media. You can also get the code for the ‘Planning for the future of volunteer management’ training session by emailing us directly and letting us know which organisation you work for. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and to click the notification button to be notified of when we release new videos. You can find more information about our upcoming online training sessions below. We will continue to offer one-to-one advice to museums from their local MDO and specialists on Organisational Health, Audiences, Digital Technologies and Collections. You can find the support you need on this page. 1. Sector News: National Lockdown; Furlough Scheme Extended; Museum Cafes and Shops under national lockdown; Manifesto for museum learning and engagement; Diversity Matters Programme grants recipients; Museums daily visitor figures; Arts and Culture crucial to the UK's recovery; VisitBritain’s sentiment tracker; Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education; Museums Change Lives Awards; Readiness for the end of the transition period; Covid-19 Impact Survey; Decolonising Natural Science Collections; Museum Association’s Redundancy Hub; Culture at Risk; DCMS Covid-19 bulletin 2. Funding and Funding Support: National Lottery Project Grants; Business Grants; Grants for Heritage Reopen; Increasing Access Fund; Digital Collaboration Fund; Crowdfunding for MA Institutional Members; Weston Culture Fund; £20m emergency grant fund; Art Fund’s Small Project Grants; Henry Moore Foundation grants programme; Digital Innovation and Engagement Fund; Community Infrastructure Levy Neighbourhood Fund; National Lottery Community Fund; ‘Pay it Forward’ platform’; Trusts and Foundations for London Museums resource 3. Training, advice and resources: GDPR and Data Protection in a Changed World; Responsible Deaccessioning and Disposal; Developing an Inclusive Museum; Engaging audiences digitally during lockdown; Rights Management for a Changed World; An Introduction to Live Streaming; An Introduction to Rights Management; Understanding online audiences; Museum and archive programming for a new normal; Building Personal Resilience; Impact Reporting for Museum and Archive Managers; Heritage Compass; Resources for planning for post Covid re-opening; Guidance on reopening museums; Equality Diversity and Inclusion Resources; Transition Period Guide; Space for Learning; The 'EMBED Reopening Recommendation'; Ticketing resource; ACE Resources on 2 Government and Wider Support; guidance for museums coming out of lockdown 4. Job Vacancies: Curator and Executive Officer; Head of Education; Florence Nightingale Actor-Explainer; Heritage Consultant; The London Museums Group is recruiting a Treasurer 5. Heritage in Lockdown: Nursing a Pandemic; House of Memories selected for Big Give Christmas Challenge; London Lives Podcast 1. Sector News (to top) National Lockdown The 4 week long national lockdown began on Thursday 05 November, meaning museums and galleries should now be closed in line with government guidance until at least Wednesday 02 December. It has been announced that some heritage locations can still be visited if they are outside – provided current social distancing rules are observed. You can find further information about that on the Gov.uk website. You can get an overview of the new national restrictions on the gov.uk website. We strongly advise that you continue to follow the news and government announcements, as they happen, over the coming days. Furlough Scheme Extended to March 2021 Last week the government announced that the furlough scheme will be extended to March 2021. The government will extend furlough payments at the original 80%, up to a maximum of £2,500 per employee. Employers will only need to cover pension and National Insurance contributions during the month of November, but can top up the remaining 20% of their staff salaries if they wish. To be eligible for this extension, employees must have been on the payroll by 30 October 2020, but they do not need to have been furloughed before that date. Workers who were made redundant in advance of the planned end of the furlough scheme on 31 October can be rehired under the current furlough extension. The relevant section is 2.4 in the policy paper which can be found here. You can find all of the information about the furlough scheme on the Gov.uk website. Museum Cafes and Shops under national lockdown Museum restaurants and cafes can continue to open for takeaway only, as long as they are in a self-contained unit, and it is possible for a member of the public to enter from a place outside of the premises. Non-essential retail, such as museum shops, can also remain open for delivery to customers and click-and-collect. You can find further information on the Gov.uk website. Museums Association launch manifesto for museum learning and engagement The manifesto for learning and engagement is a call for museums to play a central role in civil renewal and social change to address the challenges of our time. It has been produced after extensive consultation and in partnership with the Group for Education in Museums, Engage, and the Art Fund. You can find more information on their website. Diversity Matters Programme grants recipients 3 We at London Museum Development are pleased to announce the recipients of our Diversity Matters Programme grants. Bruce Castle Museum, Headstone Manor and Museum and the Museum of Croydon have been successful in securing this year’s funding. These grants will help them work with local BAME artists and/or community groups to co-curate, co-produce and co-create a public exhibition in March 2021 through either a contemporary collecting or re-visiting collections project. You can find further details about the Diversity Matters programme on our website. DCMS Sponsored Museums daily visitor figures DCMS has published the daily visitor museums for its sponsored museums between 15 July – 01 November. The stats show a dip of around 20% since the figures in the summer. You can find all of the statistics on the Gov.uk website.
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