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 ideas of
organisations and programmes it would assign funds to when it put itself
forward for this pot of cash? Are there existing projects that the chapter
expects this money to help extend/expand, what is considered
"underrepresented cultural heritage".
Apologies if this stuff is available elsewhere, I'm a bit out of the loop
with chapter happenings, and I've only gotten (back) into the content side
of things really since October-ish.
-- Lewis Cawte
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 12:33, Natasha Iles <natasha.iles(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
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 Culture Recovery Fund.
Please read our Press Release <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page> or
follow on social Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK/>, twitter
<https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, instagram
<https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>.
Coverage is also on The National Lottery Heritage Fund website
<https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/digital-skills-projects-will-support-resilience-and-creativity-heritage-sector>
.
Many thanks and best wishes
Natasha
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