Deadline: 1-Dec-2023
Is your organisation looking to connect people and communities to heritage in the UK? Will your heritage project last up to one year? Do you require a grant of between £3,000 and £10,000? Are you a not-for-profit organisations or a private owner of heritage? If you answered yes to these questions, then National Lottery Grants for Heritage are for you.
National Lottery Grants for Heritage allows 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.
Priorities
The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic means they will prioritise 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 their inclusion outcome. In addition to our outcomes, all projects must also consider long-term environmental sustainability.
Funding Information
Grant Request: £3,000 and £10,000
Eligibility Criteria
Under this programme, they accept applications from:
- Not-for-profit organisations
- Private owners of heritage
- 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
- Private owners of heritage (for example, individuals and commercial organisations).
- 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.
- They usually expect the owner of the heritage to fill in the application form and, if you are successful, receive the grant and report on progress. If the owner of the heritage is not making the application, then they will ask them to sign up to the terms of grant.
For more information, visit National Lottery Grants.
For more information, visit https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/national-lottery-grants-heritage-3k-10k
