Partnerships
Skip to navigationThe Museum has an active association with its sponsors and donors. We are always looking to add value to our associations with educational and corporate partners and work closely with many of our stakeholders. Have a look at some of our more recent activities:
Building the new London Transport Museum
The new London Transport Museum opens on 22 November after two years closed to undertake a major redevelopment. This massive project could not have been possible without the support of a number of companies, trusts and foundations. The Museum redevelopment, which has cost £22.4 million, received a £9.4 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Dame Liz Forgan, Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, said:
"The London Transport Museum's collection has been enjoyed by millions of visitors, young and old, since it opened in the 1920s. It has long had a reputation for excellence and innovation and the building itself is a piece of architectural magic right in the heart of the capital. We are delighted that, with the help of significant investment from the Heritage Lottery Fund, it is now back in tip-top condition, fully-modernised and ready to welcome a new generation."
In addition to the Heritage Lottery fund award, London Transport Museum also received major funding from Transport for London, Tube Lines, London Transport Museum Friends, the DCMS / Wolfson Foundation Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund, Garfield Weston Foundation, and over forty additional sponsors and donors, recognised in our list of sponsors. A big thank you to all of you for helping us to make this new Museum sustainable for the future.
Transport for London Safety & Citizenship Initiative
The Transport for London Safety & Citizenship Initiative provides a free of charge transport education service to all schools within Greater London. It is funded by Transport for London (TfL) and based within the Learning Department at London Transport Museum.
The aim of Safety and Citizenship (S&C) is to promote positive behaviour on and around London's transport system for all London schoolchildren aged 10-11 years. The initiative supports the government's personal, social, health and citizenship education curriculum.
The S&C team can provide a range of services to schools including multimedia presentations led by trained School Liaison Officers, site tours and Junior Citizenship Schemes. Presentations focus on ways to make safe journeys confidently and with respect for fellow passengers.
A citizenship website (link to www.tfl.gov.uk/citizenship) provides online resources for teachers to download, and interactive learning games for children to use at home.
Further information is available from the Schools Liaison Coordinator at London Transport Museum by calling +44 (0)20 7565 7303 or email education@ltmuseum.co.uk.
TfL's Safety and Citizenship Initiative receives a huge amount of support from the Museum's sponsors, in particular bus and coach operators and manufacturers involved with the Museum's Bus Advisory Board. Arriva London, Metroline (a member of ComfortDelGro), the East London Bus Group and Transdev plc have all assisted by helping to deliver bus safety messages in several local areas, providing accessible buses at S&C events for use as a teaching environment.
Arriva, London Central and London General, Metroline and Transdev have all committed staff volunteers to act as Volunteer School Liaison Officers, working directly with the S&C team to deliver the scheme to young people in the areas in which they operate.
Mercedes-Benz is helping the S&C team to develop a special state-of-the-art training vehicle for use with school groups. The company is supplying a number of bus fixtures to support the training environment, when the vehicle rolls off the production line later this year.
CBS Outdoor and a grant from Arts & Business
CBS Outdoor and London Transport Museum were awarded £41,000 from the Arts & Business New Partners scheme in 2005 to encourage and develop young people's creative skills. The grant consolidates an already thriving existing partnership with the Museum's Art Gallery sponsor.The first competition -'Copywriting Goes Underground'- was run in 2005 to encourage young professionals working in the industry to use long-copy advertising. The winning poster was produced by Burkitt DDB for Epson for their campaign Exceed Your Vision. It was displayed across the London Underground network. Entries were to such a high standard that judges highly commended two further agencies.
Nearly 200 students took part in the second and third phases, in competitions to design a poster raising awareness of London Transport Museum's major redevelopment project. The competition offered students the chance to learn about the process of an advertising campaign and what makes good poster design.
Over 100 entries from 68 students were submitted. The winners were announced in June 2006: Shazia Ahmad, an A-level student from Ealing Institute of Media, and Bola Owolabi, a degree student from London College of Communication. Their poster designs were further developed through work experience placements and exhibited in the most high-profile Underground stations in London in February 2007.
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