Deadline: 27-Jan-2025
Applications are now open for the Architectural Heritage Fund’s Grants Programme.
They want to support the conservation and sustainable re-use of historic buildings for the benefit of communities, particularly in economically disadvantaged areas.
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
- Project Development Grants
Funding Information
- Project Viability Grants
- Grant size: Up to £15,000
- Length: Up to one year
- Project Development Grants
- Grant size: Up to £20,000
- Length: Up to one year
Eligible Projects
- Your project will be eligible if all of the following apply:
- nationally listed
- locally listed
- unlisted but in a Conservation Area and/or
- highly valued by the local community for its demonstrable historic interest;
- your project is being led by a not-for-private-profit organisation
- your project involves the building changing its use and/or a change of ownership
- your organisation already has or seeks to acquire the freehold or a long lease (usually for a minimum of 25 years) on the building
Eligibility Criteria
- Wherever you are in the UK, your organisation must be one of the following not-for-private-profit organisations or lowest tiers of local government:
- Unincorporated organisations that are intending to incorporate (for Project Viability Grants only)
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs or SCIOs)
- Charitable Companies Limited by Guarantee
- Charitable Community Benefit Societies
- Community Benefit Societies
- Not-for-private-profit Companies Limited by Guarantee
- Community Interest Companies (CICs) Limited by Guarantee
- Parish and Town Councils
- Independent secular organisations seeking to take ownership of a place of worship that will retain some religious use.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They will not generally 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.
