The Insurance Museum (IM) is thrilled to announce it has been awarded a £249,700 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The grant will go towards the IM project, Insurance Heritage at Risk, which will run over the next three years and will research insurance heritage and develop an education programme.
Director of the IM, Howard Benge says: “The £249,700 grant from the Heritage Fund will support programmes for schools, families, and young people. These programmes will introduce insurance, explore its history, explain how it supports people today, and highlight insurance careers for children and young people.”
Benge continues: “We are very grateful to The National Lottery Heritage Fund for awarding us this generous grant. This is a step change for the IM. With this increase in our resources, we can lay the foundations for engaging new audiences across the UK.”
As part of the project, the IM will examine insurance heritage, including available collections, and any that may be found in public or corporate archives. The grant will support the recording of oral histories from those who worked in the market from the late 1960s to the 2000s, and the archiving of Dr Mary Reynolds’ OBE personal collection, which charts her career in life assurance. Working with the IM to deliver the programme of activities and events will be the Chartered Insurance Institute, the Business Archives Council, the City of London Libraries and the Bank of England.
Stuart McLeod, Director, England – London & South at The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said: “We’re delighted to support the Insurance Museum preserving and sharing the heritage of insurance. Thanks to National Lottery players, this project will not only safeguard important collections and stories but also inspire future generations to understand the role insurance plays in our lives today.”
The Insurance Heritage at Risk project will become part of the overall plans of IM, to establish a public museum space within the City of London’s insurance district and run a programme of events across the UK including digital galleries, talks, tours and webinars.
IM Chairman Reg Brown says: “The grant is a great honour for the insurance profession and I very much hope the whole sector will respond to the support we have received from the Heritage Fund, by also giving generously to the charity, through donations and sponsorship.”
To find out more, get in touch with us, enquire about memberships or sign up to our newsletter, please visit us via: www.insurance.museum For details on making a donation to the IM charity, please visit: www.insurance.museum/slip. Using money raised by National Lottery players, The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports projects that connect people and communities with the UK’s heritage.
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About Insurance Museum
The Insurance Museum is a registered charity (Charity Number 1188138), that is focused on becoming an educational forum for engaging audiences in the global story of insurance – past, present, and future. It does this through collections of insurance heritage from private, public, and corporate archives.
The Museum is self-funded and relies on generous donations from the insurance profession and grants from funds and foundations. Our long-term goal is to establish a world-class visitor and research centre in the City of London, where we will exhibit our collections and engage everyone interested in the fascinating story of insurance.
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About The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future. That’s why as the largest funder for the UK’s heritage we are dedicated to supporting projects that connect people and communities to heritage, as set out in our strategic plan, Heritage 2033. Heritage can be anything from the past that people value and want to pass on to future generations. We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to the past. Over the next 10 years, we aim to invest £3.6billion raised for good causes by National Lottery players to make a decisive difference for people, places and communities.
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