Grants awarded

Towards an endowment for the Wende Museum with proceeds specifically for collections care and acquisitions.

Digitizing approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and putting it online.

To support the Turquoise Mountain Trust's work with artisans in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Jordan

To digitize manuscripts and books, including the Yahuda collection and Arab-Palestinian collection, and make them freely available online with metadata in Arabic and English.

Towards the costs of running the museum

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database

The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme gives grants to document traditional skills and practices used in making or using things. It supports projects that document practices and skills that are being lost as mass-produced objects replace handmade items. The digitized records are available for free online.

To document the cultural heritage of the Maldives, and to publish the material online in an open-access database

To create an online open-access database of heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites.

To digitize and publish online the Arabic and Syriac manuscript codices of St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

To survey and document endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, ranging in date from early medieval to 19th century, and to publish the results online in an open-access bilingual database.

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.

To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to publish the results through an online database.

To increase the centre’s fundraising capacity, and to provide match-funding for an endowment supporting the centre’s work in digitization and archival preservation.

The Endangered Archives Programme gives grants to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration. The programme supports projects that cover rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

The Modern Endangered Archives Program gives grants to digitize endangered archival materials from the 20th and 21st centuries. The programme supports projects that digitize printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the mid-20th century onwards. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

To extend the reach of the Council's fellowship programme

To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them available in an open-access online archive.

To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia, and to make these available in an open-access online archive.

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and India and to make them available for free online.