Ards and North Down Borough Council: Heritage Grant in the UK

Deadline: 23-Mar-23

The Ards and North Down Borough Council is seeking applications for its Heritage Grant to assist heritage events, projects or activities, which take place in the North Down and Ards District.

Objectives

• The strategic objectives of Ards and North Down Borough Council’s Arts & Heritage Department in supporting non-profit making organisations to deliver heritage projects are:
  • To improve understanding, knowledge and enjoyment of local heritage
  • To disseminate information about local heritage
  • To promote and encourage heritage development and skills in the community
  • To support well-being through heritage-based activity
  • To ensure quality heritage experiences and best practice

What type of project is suitable?

• Examples of projects are grouped under the following headings to reflect the Council’s current priorities for funding heritage projects.
  • Buildings and monuments
    • While funding for capital projects is not covered under this grant scheme, projects which interpret and share the history and heritage of buildings and monuments are.
      • Here are some examples of what they could fund:
      • Conservation of a church memorial plaque
      • Celebrate the lives of people commemorated on a war memorial
      • Community involvement in learning about built heritage
  • Community heritage
    • They support projects that explore the heritage of your community, bring people together and increase their pride in the local area.  Community heritage is anything that makes your area unique and worth celebrating. It is often in danger of being forgotten or lost, and with it the sense of belonging and pride in where they live.
    • Here are just some of the things you could do to celebrate the heritage of your community:
      • revive a long-lost tradition or craft
      • share forgotten folk tales
      • reveal the stories of the area’s diverse groups
      • discover the origins of the place where you live
      • explore the events that helped to shape it
  • Cultures and memories
    • The traditions, memories and family histories all make them who they are.  They are as much part of the heritage as archaeology, historic buildings or natural landscapes.  Projects that delve into the diverse cultures and memories can bring people closer together, help them discover each other’s heritage and create a sense of local pride.
    • Here are just some examples of what they could fund:
      • explore the history of family and place names
      • record accounts of traditional farming methods
      • reveal the history of care for people with disabilities
      • bring people from different backgrounds to learn about their rich histories, faiths and customs, as well as share them with new audiences
      • give a voice to ordinary people – by recording their memories (oral history)
      • help people learn about local traditions and crafts and the skills needed to preserve them
      • Industrial, maritime and transport
      • Printing presses, pumping engines, windmills, historic ships, landscapes transformed by industry…
      • They want to help more groups and organisations to celebrate their local industrial heritage.

What you could achieve with the funding

• Uncover and record people’s memories of the industrial past
• Reveal the history of the textile and mining industries
• Help young people to explore their maritime heritage

Funding Information

• A maximum grant of £500 is available.
• All grants require match funding of 20% (either cash or in-kind)
• The number of applications received and the resources available at the time of assessment will be taken into account in the assessment process.  Please note that priority may be given to applications from currently under-represented areas.
• Grants must be used to undertake new and/or additional activities or special events
• Grants can be used in conjunction with other schemes, such as the Heritage Lottery Fund, but must show how they will be used for different elements of the project
• Grants are not given for capital expenditure on facilities or revenue costs such as rent or organisation overheads
• Grants will not be given for charity fundraising events
• Grants are designed to support one-off projects, successful applications will not automatically lead to repeat funding
• Grants can be given for expendable materials but will not normally be given for equipment unless the application proves a specific need for it
• Retrospective funding is not available

What they will not fund?

• Statutory organisations
• Individuals
• Capital projects
• Acquisition of artefacts
• Acquisition of materials for research purposes
• Ecological heritage or biodiversity
• Outputs which are deemed to be potentially contentious, sectarian or of an overtly political nature

Project Outputs

• For the purposes of this grant, it is expected that projects will have produced materials in order to share their results with their local communities. These outputs could be:
  • An exhibition
  • A publication
  • A video or sound recording that could be shared on social media
  • A restored artefact
  • Posters, flyers or brochures
  • Speakers
  • Equipment for public speakers

Eligibility Criteria

• Non-profit making organisations and constituted groups that are located in or projects that are of benefit to residents within Ards and North Down Borough.

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