Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Heritage Fund is inviting applications for the National Lottery Grants for Heritage – £10,000 to £250,000.
National Lottery Grants for Heritage allows to fund projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK.
Priorities
The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic means they will prioritize heritage projects that:
- Promote inclusion and involve a wider range of people (a mandatory outcome)
- Boost the local economy
- Encourages skills development and job creation
- Wellbeing support
- Create better places to live, work and visit
- Improve the resilience of organizations working in heritage
Projects must achieve at least their inclusion outcome. In addition to their outcomes, all projects must also consider long-term environmental sustainability.
Funding Information
Grant Request: £10,000 to £250,000
They will only fund projects that
- Are clearly focused on heritage – this can be national, regional or local heritage of the UK
- Take into account the current COVID-19 pandemic and consider any potential risks or impacts this will have on project delivery: See Priorities for National Lottery Grants for Heritage
- Address the mandatory Inclusion outcome and any other priority outcomes as applicable
- Address the mandatory requirement on environmental sustainability
- Have a clear plan with a defined start, middle and end
- Have not already started
Outcomes
A wider range of people will be involved in heritage (Mandatory Outcome):
- Every project they fund must achieve their mandatory outcome as a minimum
- The funded organization will be more resilient
- People will have greater wellbeing
- People will have developed skills
- The local area will be a better place to live, work or visit
- The local economy will be boosted
- They would encourage you to focus on achieving one or more of their priority outcomes at this time.
Eligibility Criteria
Under this program, they accept applications from:
- £10,000–£100,000:
- Applications from not-for-profit organisations, private owners of heritage and partnerships
- Assessment process: once they receive your application and all the correct supporting documents, they will assess your application and give you a decision in eight weeks
- £100,000–£250,000:
- Applications from not-for-profit organizations and partnerships led by not-for-profit organizations
- Assessment process: once they receive your application and all the correct supporting documents, they will assess your application and give you a decision in eight weeks
- Your contribution: you must contribute at least 5% of your project costs
- Here are some examples of the types of organization they can fund:
- Charities, trusts and charitable incorporated organizations
- Community and voluntary groups
- Community/Parish councils
- Community interest companies
- Faith based or church organizations
- local authorities
- Other public sector organizations
- Private owners of heritage (for example, individuals and commercial organizations)
- They will ask to see your constitution or governing document.
- You must have at least two people on your board or management committee who are not related by blood or marriage or living at the same address.
- If you are a private owner or a private owner is involved in your project, they will assess whether public benefit outweighs any private gain so please consider this in your application.
For more information, visit https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/national-lottery-grants-heritage-10k-250k