Heritage Lottery Fund: Heritage Grants
Grants over £50,000:
Programme Objectives
To qualify for a grant your project must:
- help people to learn about their own and other people's heritage (learning).
The project must also do either or both of the following:
- conserve the UK's diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy (conservation);
- help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about heritage (participation).
Eligibility
- Non-profit organisations including local authorities, educational institutions, voluntary associations and charities are all eligible to apply.
- If private owners are involved in a project, HLF expect the public benefit to be greater than any private gain.
Timetable
- This is a rolling funding programme
- All projects go through a two-round assessment process.
- From April 2009 all bids over £1million will be decided by the national Board
- Assessment of First Round bids takes three months.
- Decisions are made at the next available meeting following the assessment process (country and regional committee are every three months, the board every two months)
- Applicants have between 0 and 18 months to develop project between First Round approval and Second Round application.
- Assessment of Second Round bids takes three months
- Decisions are made at the next available meeting following the assessment process (country and regional committee are every three months, the board every two months)
- Bids for grants in excess of £5 million are considered as part of a competitive batch each year and you must contact HLF to discuss these bids in advance. [NB: HLF has published an indicative annual budget for these awards of £20 million up to 2013]
Criteria
- The grant request must be over £50,000.
- Minimium partnership funding of 10% of the total project costs is required for grants of up to £1million, this rises to 25% for a grant of over £1 million.
- Partnership funding can be a mixture of cash and 'in kind', for example, time, materials, premises. Atleast 5% of the partnership funding must be in cash.
- Applicants can bid for development funding in the First Round to help develop the project for application at Second Round.
For examples of the types of project funded see the case studies section
Application/Contact Details
HLF has Development Teams in each region and country office to offer pre-application advice. All potential applicants are strongly advised to take up this service. You can submit a pre-application advice form to the HLF online
Corporate Office Address:
7 Holbein Place, London, SW1W 8NR
Tel: 020 7591 6000
For contact details for the Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland Offices, and the nine English regional teams click here. Much more information about ther Heritage Lottery Fund, the grant schemes and previous grants awarded can be found on the website - www.hlf.org.uk.
Notes and Comments
- Guidance on planning activities in heritage projects is available from HLF website
- Guidance on a whole range of subjects including evaluation, planning greener projects, conservation, learning and participation is available from HLF website
