Your Heritage

Aims of Fund

To enable communities to celebrate, look after and learn more about their diverse heritage.

Who can apply

Not-for-profit organisations or partnerships led by not-for-profit organisations. Your group must have a constitution and bank account.

How much and what can you apply for

You can apply for £3,000-£50,000 to either:

• Conserve the UK's diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy, or
• Help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about heritage.

Projects should also help people to learn about their own and other people's heritage.

You will need to show that you are making a contribution to project yourselves. This can be cash from your organisation or other partners, or 'in-kind' (eg volunteer time or other things you are usually required to pay for such as donated materials and premises).

Examples of past grants and for what use if available

• Brighton Housing Trust received just under £320,000 to help restore the hidden architectural details of St Stephen’s Hall in Montpelier Place, Brighton – home to the First Base Day Centre and widely used as an invaluable resource to homeless people across the city of Brighton and Hove.
• Carousel received £19,200 for a group of adults with learning disabilities to explore Worthing Museum's collection of regional sculpture
• Hands-on-Art received £5,800 for a series of workshops with elderly people in East Sussex to use reminiscences to inform a piece of artwork
• Ditchling Museum has received £835,000
• Brunswick Town Charitable Trust has received £100,000 for a project looking at the North Laine area, the early industrial heart of the city that flourished between the 1820s and the early 20th century.
• The Duke of York's Picutrehouse received £39,000 to celebrate its Centenary.
• QueenSpark books received £49,000 to create an on-line photographic heritage archive.

How to apply

Complete an pre-application form on the website. They will then contact you to let you know if you can complete a full application. You should then get a decision within 10 weeks of them receiving your completed application.

Deadlines for application

There are no deadlines.

Other details

The Heritage Lottery Fund has a lot of other grant programs, so if this doesn't quite fit what you want to do, it is worth looking on their website.

Contact details

Date & initials

23/9/11 JG