Heritage
Heritage
The National Lottery Grants for Heritage are supporting activities connecting people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK.
Heritage projects could include Nature conservation, designed landscapes, large-scale rural projects, oral historical recordings, cultural traditions, community archaeology, historic buildings and structures, museums and libraries, archives, transport, or celebrations.
- Grants between £10,000 to £100,000 will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations, private owners of heritage and partnerships
- Grants between £100,000 to £10 million will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations and partnerships led by not-for-profit organisations
Submit an expression of interest any time. Tel: 020 7591 6044 Email: enquire@heritagefund.org.uk
Explore the Heritage Funding Directory Heritage Funding Directory provides over 400 potential funding sources, along with guides and resources to help you secure financial support for your heritage organisation. You can also select and view funding opportunities by theme, practice or discipline.
Pilgrim Trust - Preservation and Conservation Grants Grants are available for projects in the UK for the preservation/repair of historic buildings and the conservation of items, collections and records. The Trust offers the following grants:
- Historic Buildings and Structures: for the preservation and repair of historic buildings, structures and architectural features. Special consideration for those helping find sustainable solutions for the conservation and re-use of historic buildings, particularly those at risk and of outstanding importance.
- Care of Collections and Objects: to preserve historic collections, objects, artefacts, works of art, ephemera, manuscripts and museum objects.
- Places of Worship: preventative maintenance and repair of historic places of worship and the conservation of their historic interiors and churchyard structures across the UK.
Tel: 020 7834 6510. Email: info@thepilgrimtrust.org.uk
Seed Corn Grants for community groups Seed Corn Grants offer between £500 and £5,000 to support early-stage, exploratory projects that spark new ideas and approaches to community engagement with heritage. These grants are designed for community groups, Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) or other heritage organisations looking to test concepts, build partnerships, or pilot activities. Grant applications for Seed Corn Grants are open.
Resilience grants for archives TNA’s resilience grants programme is now open and archives services throughout the UK are invited to apply for resilience-building projects of up to £20,000. The aim of the grants programme is to support archives to be adaptable, resilient and sustainable, whilst creating lasting solutions that enable them to respond to change, and contribute to communities and the economy. Find out more about the grants programme here and take a look at the projects that have previously secured funding here.
Records at Risk Grants The National Archives has launched a programme of Records at Risk Grants up to £5,000 that are designed to provide support for urgent, short-notice interventions to save historic records, in both physical and digital formats, that face immediate preservation challenges. The grants are flexible, open to rolling applications, and can be distributed rapidly. You can find out more and apply here.
South East Museum Development runs several small grant schemes to help museums with priority areas of development. Further information and advice can be found here. For training opportunities search here.
Museum Youth Group Directory – add your museum Kids in Museums has launched a Museum Youth Group Directory and map, listing venues across the UK, and a description of their offer to young people. Museums are invited to submit information about their group via a simple form. A museum youth group can include youth panels, forums, young volunteer programmes and other regular opportunities for young people to get involved with a museum or heritage site.