Deadline: 31-Jul-2024
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is currently offering grants to support early-stage feasibility work on historic building projects.
The AHF helps communities across the UK find enterprising new ways to revitalise old buildings. They do this by providing advice, grants, and social investment loans.
Funding Information
- Project Viability Grants
- Grant size: Up to £10,000
- Length: Up to one year
Eligible Projects
- In general, your project will be eligible if all of the following apply:
- your project involves an historic building, which they define as:
- nationally listed – Grade I, II, II
- 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
- your project involves an historic building, which they define as:
Ineligible Projects
- work that has started before a decision to award a grant
- on site capital works
- repair costs that are not part of a larger scheme to find a new sustainable use
- ongoing maintenance costs
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
Ineligible
- 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
- Churches or other places of worship, where the building or the space within the building you are enquiring about will be used as an active place of religious worship – defined as hosting regular religious services or religion-based activities such as prayer or religious study. If you are unclear as to whether your project is eligible on the basis of religious activity taking place within your building, please reach out to one of the Officers who will be able to provide further guidance.
For more information, visit AHF.