Deadline: 12-Oct-21
The Vancouver Heritage Foundation (VHF) is seeking applications for its Heritage Conservation Grants to increase opportunities and funding for conservation of heritage buildings and sites in the city of Vancouver.
The Heritage Conservation Grants program provides funding opportunities through two categories of heritage conservation grants: Planning Project Grants and Conservation Project Grants. The grants can support owners or stewards in the care of their historic site with financial assistance and professional guidance, helping to achieve a high standard of heritage conservation to sustain heritage places and the many benefits they offer for communities.
VHF encourages all applicants to consider first applying for a Planning Project Grant or undertaking appropriate conservation planning before putting forward an application for a Conservation Project Grant.
Funding Information
- Planning Projects: $2,000
- Conservation Projects: $7,500
- 5 year maximum per site: $20,000
Types of Grants
- Planning Project Grants will provide heritage site owners and stewards an opportunity to work with a Heritage Consultant. Planning projects can take the form of research and/or required documentation for nominating a building, structure or site to the City of Vancouver’s Heritage Register or the creation of long-term informed conservation reports that map out a prioritized schedule for maintenance, repairs, restoration or rehabilitation of the site.
- Conservation Project Grants provide the next step in supporting a heritage site’s conservation for the long term and focus on the maintenance, repair, restoration and rehabilitation of a site’s exterior fabric and character-defining elements that embody its heritage values
What type of site is eligible?
- The property must be located within the City of Vancouver.
- The building or site must be:
- Listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register, or
- In the process of being added to the Heritage Register before completion of the grant project, or
- Applying to the program for a grant to assist with the documentation required to apply for addition to the Heritage Register.
- The following types of sites can be eligible for the program:
- Buildings
- House typologies and similar scale structures
- Components of other types of buildings critical to the heritage value, for example, the porch or façade elements of a larger building that does not qualify for other support
- Stand-alone structures
- Other historic resources o Landscape structures/features o Historic signs
- Buildings
Eligibility Criteria
- Private Owner
- Individual(s)
- Strata corporations
- Registered non-profit society or federally registered charity
- including those with a long-term lease (minimum of 10 years) in a municipally owned building with responsibility for heritage character elements eligible for work.
- Authorized agent of a site, with written permissions from the site owner
- Self-governing First Nation.
For more information, visit https://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/grants/heritage-conservation-grants/