[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK awarded funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

2021-03-18 Thread Natasha Iles
Hi all Please join us in celebrating the announcement today that Wikimedia UK is one of twelve projects being supported through The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund. Please read our Press Release or follow on social Facebo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK awarded funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

2021-03-18 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Hi Lewis Many thanks for your email and for your interest in the project! Obviously the press release and social media announcements around the grant are by necessity short on detail, although the application itself was much more comprehensive. But to clarify, this won't be a pot of cash that oth

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK awarded funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

2021-03-18 Thread Lewis Cawte
Any funding is great news for the chapter and well done to everyone involved in getting the award. Having read both the National Lottery and WMUK, it seems to fall short on anything particularly specific on what the funds will be spent on? Presumably, the chapter had some provisional/speculative i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 188, Issue 3

2021-03-18 Thread Jon Davies
al chapter > for > the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. > Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by > Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. > Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK awarded funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

2021-03-18 Thread Charles Matthews
> On 18 March 2021 at 14:52 Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > >There will be a focus on heritage which is underrepresented on Wikimedia, and >we may narrow this focus down further to specific groups. Would be good to have the interface with the cultural sector reconsidered. The GLAM concept

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK awarded funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

2021-03-18 Thread Richard Symonds
Excellent news! Well done all! On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, 14:53 Lucy Crompton-Reid, < lucy.crompton-r...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Hi Lewis > > Many thanks for your email and for your interest in the project! > > Obviously the press release and social media announcements around the > grant are by nece

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK awarded funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

2021-03-18 Thread Michael Maggs
Congratulations all! Excellent news. Michael > On 18 Mar 2021, at 12:33, Natasha Iles wrote: >  > Hi all > > Please join us in celebrating the announcement today that Wikimedia UK is one > of twelve projects being supported through The National Lottery Heritage Fund > and the DCMS Cultur