Timeline
November 2008: 1st stage application made to the Heritage Lottery Fund for development funding.
August 2008: Design team meeting to introduce new Holton Lee Director, Theresa Veith.
July 2008: LDAF archive collection acquired
April 2008: Holton Lee Trustees purchase portrait of Tony Heaton from the Who's Who collection by Tanya Raabe
April 2008: The Rayne Foundation grant £10,000 towards the capital project
March 2008: Steering Group Meeting to discuss future fundraising and project development. The notion of an executive committee is agreed.
February 2008: NDAF archive collection acquired
August 2007: Design Team meeting
August 2007: NDACA featured in Arts Disability Culture Magazine
August 2007: Holton Lee Arts Website goes online
June 2007: The Mercer's Company grant £2000 to NDACA
May 2007: What is NDACA? leaflet produced.
May 2007: NDACA featured on Disability Arts Online.
May 2007: NDACA was represented at the Shape Conference
April 2007 Evaluation Drawings produced
April 2007 Design Team Meeting
March 2007: Design Team Meeting
Febuary 2007 Design Team Meeting
January 2007: The third NDACA steering group meeting coinciding with the First Holton Lee Disability Arts Open Competitive Exhibition. Sarah Wiggelworth's architectural design are presented to the committee.
November 2006: Arts Council England grant £350,000 towards the constuction of a purpose built archive to hold NDACA at Holton Lee, Dorset.
August 2006: Concept Sketches.
August 2006: Works from NDACA featured in a Painting in Hospitals exhibition The Menier Gallery, London
March 2006: Sarah Wigglesworth Architects appointed to design the NDACA building and Dr.Ju Gosling appointed as the Disabled Artist Consultant www.ju90.co.uk
August 2005: Holton Lee commissions Allan Sutherland to conduct intensive follow-up research to the 2003 survey, mapping the existence of formal and informal collections across the country and their preservation and access needs.
August 2005: Holton Lee/NDACA invited to join the National Archives User Advisory Group;
June 2005: Holton Lee/NDACA invited to join the Disability History Subject Specialist Network developed by the Colchester Museum;
June 2005: Holton Lee begins discussions with Arts Institute at Bournemouth on the creation of a Masters of Arts Degree in Disability Arts
June 2005: Second Steering Group meeting at Holton Lee;
May 2005: Holton Lee submits first-round Development Plan to ACE;
Spring 2005: Holton Lee assembles an ad-hoc “advisory group” of representatives from major cultural and heritage institutions such as: South West Museums; Libraries & Archives Council; The National Archives; Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; Tate Britain; and Henry Moore Institute for informal guidance and consultation;
March 2005: First Steering Group meeting at ACE, comprised of representatives from major Disability Arts organisations along with other key stake-holders, such as ACE, and Holton Lee Trustees;
February 2005: A project team is assembled to conduct Access, Audience Development, Conservation and overall project planning;
November 2004: Holton Lee organises and hosts second national conference, Express Yourself, “a consultation process with key stakeholders…[to] consider who will use the archive and how they will use it”; October – November 2004: Tony Heaton conducts on-site archive/development research at the: Henry Moore Foundation, Women’s Art Library, Tate Britain Hyman Kreitman Research Centre and Henry Moore Institute;
September 2004 – February 2005: Timothy Mason conducts ACE-mandated “Healthcheck” on Holton Lee and archive feasibility;
August 2004: Holton Lee is awarded £46,000 Project Planning Grant from HLF;
July 2004: Holton Lee organises and hosts Thinking Aloud conference, with national representation from the Disability Arts community, to “shape the vision and direction” of the archive project;
May 2004: Holton Lee is awarded a provisional £250,000 ACE capital grant toward the construction of NDACA;
April 2004: Holton Lee submits Project Planning Grant application to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the conservation aspects of the archive;October 2003: Holton Lee submits an Arts Council England (ACE) capital bid to develop a national archive;
Spring 2003: The Edward Lear Foundation conducts a survey of 40 major Disability Arts organisations identifying a clear need for archiving expertise, resources and education within the field;
February 2002: Holton Lee organises and hosts the first national “visioning” conference on Disability Arts in the 21st Century, DA21, with a conclusion that there was no “strong voice…[with a] central core running through Disability Arts”;
1999: A joint Holton Lee/Arts Council-funded (50:50) feasibility study by Bonnar Keenlyside identifies the archive as a much-needed resource within the Disability Arts community and a positive development in the growth of Holton Lee. NDACA is incorporated into Holton Lee business plan
