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Delivering Change: Sustainable Co-Production Fund

Introduction

The Sustainable Co-production Fund was set up as part of Delivering Change, a Museums Galleries Scotland programme that supports museums and galleries across Scotland to make changes to help all people to access culture. The three-year programme is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to National Lottery players as well as the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, and the Scottish Government.

In March 2024, thanks to support from the players of People’s Postcode Lottery, we awarded £175,000 to five museums through the Sustainable Co-production Fund to support them to collaborate with systemically excluded communities. The five museums awarded were:

The Sustainable Co-production fund supports museums to embed new ways of working. Each participant partners with at least one community group whose members have experienced systemic exclusion. Together, the museums and community groups are co-producing programming which will engage a wider audience and increase representation in the museum from groups who have been systematically excluded.  The participants are working as a cohort to support each other and share the challenges and successes of the projects as they develop.  As a result, museum staff, volunteers, and trustees will gain greater knowledge and understanding of the excluded groups their partners support. This initiative also aims to make collaborating with communities a core part of what museums do.

Updates on the funded projects

Paxton House

Caribbean Connections Creative Partnership

Paxton House is working in partnership with Edinburgh Caribbean Association as well as with their long term partner, The Descendants. The project centres around an exhibition planned for 2025 by Grenadian born artist Billy Gerard Frank which explores the history, memory, and enduring legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. This includes a collaborative cross-cultural educational project created by the partners which involves pupils from Grenada, Scotland, and England.  Work so far has focussed on a workshop programme.

Glasgow School of Art

Community Co-Production: Reflect, Refine, Record 

The Glasgow School of Art is working with Maryhill Integration Network and The Garnethill Multicultural Centre to reflect on and evaluate past collaboration. They will take forward some of the ideas from this evaluation, testing and developing a framework. They will produce an evidence-based foundation to develop their practice in co-production.

David Livingstone Birthplace

Connecting Communities and Collections 

David Livingstone Birthplace is collaborating with Empower Women for Change: Thistles and Dandelions on a participant-led programme of workshops, activities and community displays.  Since the project began in April the participants have been recruited and relationships and collaborative practice established.  Research and study visits have helped participants reflect on the relationship between Africa and Scotland’s cultures and communities, and they have began to map out the exhibition they are creating.

Glasgow Museum’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)

Glasgow Museum’s Intercultural Youth Group 

Glasgow Museum’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) are working with Mental Health Foundation’s refugees and asylum seeker team and together they will deliver an Intercultural Youth Group, a voice for young people from ethnic minority groups in Glasgow.  Since the project began staff have been recruited, and the group is due to start meeting in October.

HMS Unicorn

Unicorn and Ukrainians Together 

The Unicorn Preservation Society is working with a community group called Ukrainians Together.  They are planning to co-produce exhibits and materials, and the sessions will be a place for the local Ukrainian community to develop transferable skills including language and social integration, as well as explore heritage together. 

Get in touch

If you have any questions about the Delivering Change programme please get in touch with Sheila Asante, programme manager.

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The National Lottery Heritage Fund Logo and the words "Taing dhan A' Mhaoin-Dualchais | Made possible with Heritage Fund".
Scotland's national flag of a saltire next to black and grey text in English and Gaelic. Text "Scottish Government Riaghaltas na h-Alba".
Black text "Esmée Fairbairn Foundation" on a white background with white "ef" above text in pink circle.
The logo of the People's Postcode Lottery's Postcode Culture Trust. On the left is a white box, above which is the text " Supported by players of". The box contains a gold ribbon and the text "People's Postcode Lottery". On the right is another white box, above which is the text "Awarded funds from". This box contains a gold ribbon and the text "Postcode Culture Trust".