Deadline: 27-Jan-2025
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is providing grants to help with assessing the viability of a project, or to help fund development costs for historic building related regeneration projects based in Scotland.
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.
Funding Programmes
- Project Viability Grants (PVG)
- Grant amount: Up to £10,000 (average offer: £6,000)
- Project length: Up to one year
- Project Development Grants (PDG)
- Grant amount: Up to £40,000 (average offer: £15,000)
- Project length: Up to one year
- William Grant Foundation
- Tailored Support Fund Grant amount: Up to £10,000 (average offer £7,500)
- Project length: Up to one year
Funding Priorities
- They will prioritise projects that:
- Involve a new use of a vacant historic building
- Are in the top 30% most deprived areas (with reference to the Scottish 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
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 – Category A, B, C
- unlisted but in a Conservation Area
- unlisted but 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 project involves an historic building, which they define as:
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organisation must be one of the following not-for-private-profit organisations or lowest tiers of local government:
- Unincorporated organisations and charities (for Project Viability Grants only)
- Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisations (SCIOs)
- 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
- Community Councils
Ineligibility Criteria
- They will not fund:
- Private individuals
- Local authorities and other public sector bodies (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
For more information, visit AHF.
