National Lottery Grants for Heritage – £10,000 to £250,000

National Lottery Grants for Heritage – £10,000 to £250,000: 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. 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. At this grant level, we can also fund activities to support a group taking on new responsibility for heritage, or to build new skills and capacity in organisations that already have responsibility for heritage.

The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic means we 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 our inclusion outcome. In addition to our outcomes, all projects must also consider long-term environmental sustainability.

National Lottery Grants for Heritage are able to support a broad range of types of activity. We can cover a wide range of direct project costs. As an example, your heritage project could include: *volunteer expenses *training costs *event costs (including room hire, refreshments and equipment) *small capital works *repair and maintenance (revenue) *new staff posts *professional fees (for example, legal costs) *paid training placements *costs to improve access to your heritage *activities to help you strengthen your organisation *costs associated with taking on new responsibility for heritage (for example, feasibility studies) *digital outputs *repair and conservation *the purchase price of collection items or property

This funding will support activity that will address our mandatory requirements of inclusion and environmental sustainability, and if relevant, other priority outcomes.

Things you need to know: *Requirements: your project must not start before we make a decision and it must focus on heritage in the UK. *Deadlines for applications: there is no deadline so you can apply whenever you are ready. *Assessment process: once we receive your application and all the correct supporting documents, we will assess your application and give you a decision in eight weeks. The assessment of our first few applications may take slightly longer than eight weeks as we transition back into our normal grant-giving cycle. *Your contribution: for applications of £100,000 to £250,000 you must contribute at least 5% of your project costs.

Your heritage project could include: *NATURE works to improve habitats or conserve species, as well as helping people to connect to nature in their daily lives. *DESIGNED LANDSCAPES improving and conserving historic landscapes such as public parks, historic gardens and botanical gardens. *LANDSCAPES AND THE COUNTRYSIDE LARGE-SCALE RURAL PROJECTS that help improve landscapes for people and nature, by for example, restoring habitats and celebrating the cultural traditions of the land. *ORAL HISTORY RECORDINGS of people’s stories, memories and songs, as a way of communicating and revealing the past. *CULTURAL TRADITIONS exploring the history of different cultures through storytelling, or things that you do as part of your community. This could be anything from dance and theatre, to food or clothing It could also include the heritage of languages and dialects. *COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY involves the active participation of volunteers in archaeological activities, everything from investigating, photographing, surveying to finds processing. Can occasionally include excavation. Sometimes called public archaeology. *HISTORIC BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS AND THE HISTORIC ENVIROMENT from houses and mills, to caves and gardens. Areas that are connected to history and heritage. *MUSERUMS, LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES making the collections that museums, libraries and archives hold more accessible through new displays, improving public buildings and galleries, or engaging people with interpreting new and existing collections. *ACQUIRING NEW OBJECTS help towards the cost of acquiring one-off objects or collections as part of a collections development policy. *COMMEMORATIONS AND CELEBRATIONS telling the stories and histories of people, communities, places or events related to specific times and dates. *INDUSTRIAL, MARITIM AND TRANSPORT this might be places and objects linked to our industrial, maritime and transport history.

Under this programme, we accept applications from: £10,000–£100,000: *applications from not-for-profit organisations, private owners of heritage and partnerships *deadlines: there are no deadlines so you can apply whenever you are ready *assessment process: once we receive your application and all the correct supporting documents, we will assess your application and give you a decision in eight weeks £100,000–£250,000: *applications from not-for-profit organisations and partnerships led by not-for-profit organisations *deadlines: there are no deadlines so you can apply whenever you are ready *assessment process: once we receive your application and all the correct supporting documents, we will assess your application and give you a decision in eight weeks your contribution: you must contribute at least 5% of your project costs

Here are some examples of the types of organisation we 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)

We 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, we will assess whether public benefit outweighs any private gain so please consider this in your application.