Sponsors and Funding
The Egham Museum is an independent community museum dependent upon grants and donations. If you represent a company and would like to discuss our sponsorship packages please email: curator@eghammuseum.org.
We are currently in receipt of an annual grant from Runnymede Borough Council to cover operational costs such as overheads and professional curatorial services.
Runnymede Borough Council also generously lease our premises for a token amount for which we are very grateful. This enables the museum to continue to meet Accreditation Standards and provide a quality and valued service to our community.
We are delighted to announce that from April 2019, we will be delivering a National Lottery Heritage grant (formerly known as the Heritage Lottery Fund / HLF) for a two-year Resilient Heritage project at just over £92,000. The project, titled ’50 More Years of Egham’, will investigate techniques and initiatives in order to secure the longer-term sustainability of the Museum.
In partnership with the Community Research Hub volunteers at Royal Holloway University of London, we are delighted to have received a grant of £500 from the Community Foundation for Surrey towards our overheads in order for the Museum to become the home RHUL’s Community Research Hub. This pilot project is running until October 2019.
Through the generous support of Cllr Marisa Heath, we have been in receipt of two Surrey County Council Members’ Grant. In 2017, we received funding towards our Changing Face of Egham’s High Street pop-up exhibition for just under £1,000; and currently, we are in receipt of a grant for just under £2,000 that is enabling us to deliver afternoon teas and reminiscence object handling sessions at the Literary Institute and with care homes in the area such as Manor Farm and Merlewood.
To enable us to continue to deliver Suffrage in Egham activities, we were pleased to receive a £2,000 Women’s Vote Centenary Grant as part of Parliament’s Vote 100 celebrations in 2018.
We were delighted to receive an Arts Council England grant via their Grants for the Arts funding strand at just under £100,000. The funding enabled us to deliver our Suffrage in Egham project which ran from May 2017 until June 2018.
Egham Museum is fortunate to have held four concurrent grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund. We held, in partnership with Egham-by-Runnymede Historical Society, a grant of just under £100,000 for our ‘Magna Carta in Egham‘ project (Your Heritage fund); a grant of just over £34,000 for our ‘Memories of War’ project (Young Roots fund); our Bronze-Aged ‘Memory and Migration’ project (Your Heritage fund) for just under £30,000; and our most recent project titled ‘Women: Wives, Workers and War’ (Then and Now First World War fund) for just over £5,000.
Procter and Gamble have been one of our most generous local supporters. P&G have sponsored our conservation, outreach, research and engagement work and in addition, sponsored and hosted our 2014 Collections and Identity Conference.
Heathrow Airport invested the in educational legacy of the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta by sponsoring a twelve month Magna Carta internship at Egham Museum.
Heathrow Community Fund have been regular supporters of Egham Museum, first funding our ‘Memories of War’ pilot project and then the ‘Our Street at War’ project.