As an independent museum we rely on support from sponsorship from all kinds of companies, trusts and foundations to ensure we survive.

As the only steam driven Brickworks in the UK, we welcome people through our doors every year from all walks of life.  Our audiences include families, young people, the young at heart and corporate guests attending conferences. Our visitors travel across the globe to experience our museum.

Sponsoring The Brickworks Museum presents an opportunity to help ensure our survival, as well as providing you with an opportunity to get your name in front of our visitors. We offer a range of sponsorship opportunities, including:

  • Sponsorship of our extensive learning programme
  • Sponsorship of our  popular annual events, such as the annual Beer Festival or the Steam Punk event
  • Naming of the Museum’s unique spaces
  • Sponsorship of our exhibits

The possibilities really are endless…

Contact us at info@thebrickworksmuseum.org to learn more about sponsoring The Brickworks.

Our current sponsorships include

Historic England – for helping to fund the repair of the kiln roof including the removal of all asbestos sheeting​ in 2023.

The Garfield Weston Foundation supported the replacement of the roof over our Grade II* listed kiln in 2023. This work was essential to remove the Museum from the Heritage at Risk register.

Hampshire County Council Hampshire County Council assisted with the New Foundations Project​ and supported the replacement of the roof over our Grade II* listed kiln in 2023. This work was essential to remove the Museum from the Heritage at Risk register.

Heritage Lottery Fund

The National Lottery Heritage Fund is our largest supporter to date with over £800,000 in grants awarded. The Lottery helped us to create the museum with a large donation in 2012. Since then we have had more support with varying sizes of grants. We are currently being helped with funding towards our large New Foundations Project.

Arts Council England and Arts & Heritage – The art project Coralent​.

Biffa Award

Thanks to a big grant from the National Heritage Landmarks Partnership (Association of Independent Museums, Biffa Award) we have reinstated our second steam engine. This is the sister engine to our main one and also made by John Wood & Son from Wigan. It has been in store for ten years and is now working again.

AIM

The Association of Independent Museums has helped the museum with two grants. The first was in partnership with Biffa Awards – see above. The second was to help us with our cafe. The grant paid for a consultant and new chairs and tables.

Architectural Heritage Fund have provided support towards the realisation of the New Foundations Project.​

Brick Development Association

The Brick Development Association are regular supporters of the museum with donations totalling £5,000 to date. We are currently working with them to create a new display based on modern brick-making. This is a very new project and only in its early stages at the moment.

Tylers & Bricklayers

The Worshipful Company of Tylers & Bricklayers are regular supporters of the museum with a range of donations totalling £3,500. In 2018 they paid for us to steam up the engine at our events that year. In 2019 we received a generous donation to spend as the museum wished.

Michelmersh Bricks

Michelmersh Brick Holdings Limited have been supporting the museum for many years by providing ready mixed brick clay. This is used for visitors and schools to make small bricks with. Anyone who visits the museum can make a brick thanks to them

Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust

The Trust was formed by Hampshire County Council as part of its response to European Architectural Heritage Year in 1976. Its principal objective was to increase public awareness of the plight of those historic buildings which were suffering from either a lack of maintenance or lack of a viable use. For almost 30 years the Trust, operated a revolving fund which allowed it to purchase and restore a number of threatened buildings before putting them back on the market.

The Trust  owns Bursledon Brickworks, where the core buildings of the 19th Century works are Grade 2* listed buildings. The Trust has been an important support in the creation of the Bursledon Brickworks Museum.