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The Heritage Revival Fund Grants Programme (UK)

Deadline: 14-Jul-25

The Architectural Heritage Fund is pleased to launch a new grants programme for England – The Heritage Revival Fund.

The Heritage Revival Fund has been created to help communities across England rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings. It will do this by supporting community organisations to take ownership of, adapt and reuse the local heritage assets that matter to them, transforming them into thriving spaces that meet their needs.

This new programme is being delivered by the Architectural Heritage Fund in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Historic England, and forms part of the government’s wider £270 million investment in arts and culture.

Aims
  • The Heritage Revival Fund aims to:
    • maximise the regeneration benefits of community ownership and control of heritage assets, assisting in making communities fit for the future.
    • protect, enhance and safeguard historic buildings across England, offering viable new uses for disused and underutilised properties.
    • build capacity within local community groups, social enterprise, and charities.
    • pilot innovative, alternative uses, ownership structures and investment models to facilitate long term regeneration.
    • maximise the positive social and economic impacts around restoring historic buildings.
Grant Categories
  • Project Viability Grants
  • Project Development Grants
  • Capital Works Grants
Funding Information
  • Project Viability Grants:
    • Grant size: Up to £15,000.
  • Project Development Grants:
    • Grant size: Up to £100,000.
  • Capital Works Grants:
  • Grant size: Up to £350,000.
Duration
  • The Heritage Revival Fund will run from 1 April 2025 until 31 March 2026
Eligible Projects
  • They want to help communities take control of and find sustainable new uses for derelict or neglected historic buildings in their local areas, particularly in areas of high deprivation.
  • In general, your project will be eligible if all of the following apply:
    • your project involves an historic building in England, 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.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Your organisation must be one of the following not-for-private-profit organisations or lowest tiers of local government:
    • Unincorporated charities (for Project Viability Grants only)
    • Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs)
    • 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
    • Parish and Town Councils
    • Independent secular organisations seeking to take ownership of a place of worship that will retain some religious use. Or an organisation associated with a worshipping community that is seeking to establish an independent secular organisation to take ownership of the place of worship, while the space will retain some religious use.
Ineligibility Criteria
  • They will not 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.

For more information, visit AHF.