Grants for Projects to Achieve Economic Growth by Investing in Heritage

Deadline: 2 March 2020

The Heritage Enterprise process is for projects that seek to achieve economic growth by investing in heritage.

It is aimed at enterprising community organisations and commercial organisations working in partnership with community organisations to help them rescue neglected historic buildings and sites and return them to a viable productive use.

Funding Information

Grants from £250,000 to £5million

Eligible Projects

They fund a broad range of projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK.

Direct project costs

Applicants’s application should include all costs that are directly incurred as a result of the project.

Direct project costs include:

property acquisition and related costs;
capital work, including repairs, conversion and new build costs;
development management costs;
planning and building control fees;
finance costs;
research, such as specialist surveys or historic research;
the preparation of development appraisals;
the preparation of management and maintenance plans, activities statements, conservation plans and project business plans (where applicable);
payments/bursaries for trainees;
new staff posts: extra hours for existing staff, and the cost of filling a post left empty by moving an existing member of staff into a post created for a project;
professional fees;
evaluation;
promotion; and
extra costs for applicants organisation, such as a new phone, extra photocopying, new computers or extra rent.

Direct project costs do not include:

existing staff or organisational costs (unless calculated through Full Cost Recovery);
activities that take place outside the UK;
statutory and/or legal responsibilities;
promoting the cause or beliefs of political or faith organisations;
recoverable VAT;
costs for money that has already been spent.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants can apply for a grant of £250,000 and £5million if applicants are a:
- not-for-profit organisation
- partnership led by not-for-profit organisations
Here are some examples of the types of not-forprofit organisations they fund:
- charities, trusts and charitable incorporate organisations (CIOs);
- community or voluntary groups;
- Community Interest Companies;
- faith based and church organisations;
- community/parish councils;
- local authorities;
- other public sector organisations, such as nationally funded museums.