Our funders
The Arts Council
We are proud to be an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. This status provides regular core funding in recognition of the national significance of our collections and the cultural impact of our exhibitions, learning and community programmes that contribute to the Arts Council's objectives in its ten-year strategy for 2020-30 Let's Create.
The outcomes we aim to achieve by 2030 closely align with those set out in Let's Create:
- Creative People - Everyone can develop and express creativity throughout their life
- Cultural Communities - Villages, towns and cities thrive through a collaborative approach to culture
- A Creative and Cultural Country - England's cultural sector is innovative, collaborative, and international
To achieve the outcomes in our Five Year Strategic Framework we are guided by the Arts Council's four investment principles:
- Ambition and Quality - we are ambitious and committed to improving the quality of our work
- Dynamism - we are agile and able to respond to the challenges of the future
- Environmental Responsibility - We aim to show leadership in our approach to environmental responsibility
- Inclusion and Relevance - we strive to reflect the diversity of Norfolk in all that we do
Norfolk County Council
Our work responds to the goals set out in Norfolk County Council's strategy for 2021-5 'Better Together for Norfolk'. Norfolk Museums Service delivers against all five of the Council's strategic priorities:
- A vibrant and sustainable economy
- Better opportunities for children and young people
- Healthy, fulfilling, and independent lives
- Strong, engaged, and inclusive communities
- A greener, more resilient future
National Lottery Heritage Fund
Heritage 2033 is the National Lottery Heritage Fund's ten-year strategy for 2023-33. Its vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone's future.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has made transformational investment in the work of Norfolk Museums Service. The Norwich Castle: Royal Palace Reborn project was realised through £12.9m of lottery investment thanks to players of the National Lottery. The fund also generously supported our innovative youth engagement programme Kick the Dust Norfolk between 2018-23.
We will continue to support The Heritage Fund's investment principles of saving heritage, protecting the environment, increasing inclusion, access and participation, and building organisational sustainability.
Friends and partner organisations
We are grateful for the long-term and ongoing support of groups and partners. In particular:
- Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum
- The Friends of the Norwich Museums
- The Friends of Gressenhall
- The Friends of Cromer Museum
- The Friends of Thetford Museum
- The Costume and Textile Association
- The East Anglia Art Fund
- Norfolk Contemporary Art Society
- Norfolk Museums Development Foundation
