AHF launches Rhaglenni Grant Programmes for Wales (UK)

Deadline: 14-Jul-25

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has launched the Rhaglenni Grant Programmes for Wales.

The AHF helps communities across the UK find enterprising new ways to revitalise old buildings.

Aims

• The aims are:
  • delivering targeted investment that leads to the sustainable reuse and management of historic buildings.
  • supporting charities and social enterprises to take ownership of, develop and sustain new uses for historic buildings.
  • championing the impact of heritage and community-led regeneration.

Types of Grants

• Project Viability Grants
  • These grants should help you to establish whether a project is feasible. Work can focus on understanding the condition of the building, how it might be used, and whether that intended use is appropriate for the building and likely to be sustainable.
• Project Development Grants
  • These grants can help you to develop your proposals from feasibility through to the start of capital works. You can apply for grant support to appoint professional advisors to work with your organisation to add their expertise and knowledge to advance the plans. These can include architects, surveyors, engineers etc. to develop the architectural plans for the historic building; support to build the capacity of your organisation by employing or contracting a project manager; refining your business plan, building community engagement and preparing funding bids.

Funding Information

• Project Viability Grants
  • Grant amount: Up to £10,000
• Project Development Grants
  • Grant amount: Up to £20,000

Funding Priorities

• They will prioritise projects that:
  • involve new use of a vacant historic building
  • are in the top 30% most deprived areas (according to the Wales Index of Multiple Deprivation)
  • involve and support diverse and marginalised communities
  • have a strong focus on environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
  • contribute to local regeneration schemes

Eligibility Criteria

• Your organisation must be one of the following not-for-private-profit organisations or lowest tiers of local government:
  • Unincorporated charities (for Project Viability Grants only)
  • Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs)
  • Charitable Companies Limited by Guarantee
  • Community Benefit Societies
  • Not-for-private-profit Companies Limited by Guarantee
  • Community Interest Companies (CICs) Limited by Guarantee
  • Co-operatives
  • Parish, Community and Town Councils
  • Independent secular organisations seeking to take ownership of a place of worship that will retain some religious use. Or an organisation associated with a worshipping community that is seeking to establish an independent secular organisation to take ownership of the place of worship, while the space will retain some religious use. Until ownership/long lease is confirmed, they will only fund governance and legal costs related to taking ownership or setting up an independent organisation to do so. In either circumstance, ongoing worship must account for less than half of the proposed use of the space.

Ineligibility Criteria

• They  will not fund:
  • Private individuals
  • Local authorities and other public sector bodies other than Parish and Town Councils (unless applying on behalf of an organisation still in formation)
  • Universities, colleges and other mainstream educational institutions including independent schools
  • For-profit companies, unless in a partnership led by a not-for-profit organisation
  • Unincorporated organisations (e.g. charitable trusts and associations) that are not intending to incorporate
  • Organisations with fewer than three Trustees or Directors. If there are only three Trustees/Directors, none of these should be spouses or otherwise related to one another
  • Limited liability partnerships

For more information, visit AHF.