Deadline: 25-May-23
Is your organisation looking to connect people and communities to heritage in the UK? Will your heritage project be delivered over five years? Are you a not-for-profit organisation or a partnership led by a not-for-profit organisation? If you answered yes to these questions, then National Lottery Grants for Heritage are for you.
National Lottery Grants for Heritage allows us to fund projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK. Using money raised by the National Lottery, the National Lottery Heritage Fund inspires, leads and resources the UK’s heritage to create positive and lasting change for people and communities, now and for the future. National Lottery Grants for Heritage is the open programme for all types of heritage projects in the UK.
Priorities
- To support the sector in its continued recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and through the cost of living crisis, they are prioritising heritage projects that:
- promote inclusion and involve a wider range of people (a mandatory outcome)
- boost the local economy
- encourage skills development and job creation
- support wellbeing
- create better places to live, work and visit
- improve the resilience of organisations working in heritage
- Projects must achieve at least the inclusion outcome. In addition to the outcomes, all projects must also consider long-term environmental sustainability.
Funding Information
- Grant between £250,000 and £5million.
What can they fund?
- They fund projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK.
- Heritage can mean different things to different people. It can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations.
- As a guide, this could include:
- people’s memories and experiences (often recorded as ‘oral history’)
- cultural traditions (for example, stories, festivals, crafts, music and dance)
- nature (for example, habitats, species and geology)
- natural and designed landscapes such as parks and gardens
- community archaeology
- historic buildings, monuments and environments
- collections of objects, books or documents in museums, libraries or archives
- histories of people and communities or places and events
- the heritage of languages and dialects
- places and objects linked to the industrial, maritime and transport history
Eligibility Criteria
- Under this programme, they accept applications from:
- not-for-profit organisations
- partnerships led by not-for-profit organisations
- Here are some examples of the types of organisation they can fund:
- charities, trusts and charitable incorporated organisations
- community and voluntary groups
- community/parish councils
- community interest companies
- faith based or church organisations
- local authorities
- other public sector organisations
- They encourage you to work with other people to develop and carry out your project. If you plan to work with another organisation to carry out a significant proportion of your project they advise you to formalise your relationship with a partnership agreement.
- If your project partners will provide goods or services paid for through the grant, they will need to see your partnership agreement as part of your application.
For more information, visit National Lottery Heritage Fund.