3. Who we are
• One of four lottery funders in Scotland
• Support heritage projects – all sizes
and types
• Funding projects that make a lasting
difference to heritage and people
• Fund a variety of heritage through 16
different programmes
4. What is heritage?
Historic buildings and sites
Natural heritage (e.g. historic parks, biodiversity etc)
Museums, archives and collections
Industrial, transport & maritime heritage
‘Intangible’ heritage (e.g. oral history, language and dialect, place names, cultural
traditions etc)
“Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today
and what we pass on to future generations.” UNESCO
6. Funding
Good news
HLF will award £400m this
year to projects across
the UK - more than twice
as much as we expected
in 2008
But
challenging economic
conditions and
continued pressure on
public sector finances
7. What do we fund?
• Is there a heritage focus?
• Is it a project? – cannot fund core costs
• We give priority to not-for-profit organisations*
• Ownership requirements for land, objects or buildings
• Funding from £3,000 upwards!
9. A lasting difference
Heritage
People
Communities
Better managed
In better condition
Better interpreted and explained
Identified and/or recorded
Developed skills
Learnt about heritage
Changed their attitudes or behaviour
Had an enjoyable experience
Volunteered time
Environmental impacts will be reduced
More people will have engaged with heritage
Organisations will be more resilient
Local economies will be boosted
Local communities will be a better place to live
In assessing projects we will look at the benefits it will bring to the
heritage, people and communities. We call these ‘outcomes’.
10. Grant Programmes
Sharing Heritage
• Celebrating community heritage
• Grants from £3,000 - £10,000
• Not-for-profit groups
• 8 week assessment
• No application deadline
• Projects have to meet minimum of
one outcome for people
12. Grant Programmes
Our Heritage
• Replaces Your Heritage programme
• All types of heritage project
• Grants from £10,000 - £100,000
• 8 week assessment
• No application deadlines
• Prioritise not-for profit groups but can also
fund private individuals and organisations*
• Projects have to meet minimum of one
outcome for heritage and one outcome for
people
15. Grant Programmes
Young Roots
• For projects led by Young People
aged 11 – 25
• Relaunched Feb 13
• Grants from £10,000 - £50,000
• 8 week assessment
• No application deadlines
• Encourages partnerships between
Youth and Heritage Organisations
• Emphasis on developing young
people’s skills and engaging with
heritage
16. Our Grant Programmes
Grants for Places of Worship
• Grants from £10,000 - £250,000
• 2 round process
• Run with Historic Scotland
• High-level, urgent repairs
• Scope extended to provide facilities
to make buildings sustainable (up to
15% of total cost)
• Projects will need to meet minimum
of one outcome for heritage and one
outcome for communities
17. Our Grant Programmes
Heritage Grants
• Grants from £100,000 +
• Two round process
• Scotland committee makes decision for
requests up to £2million
• Regular deadlines
• Can apply for development funding
• For not-for-profit organisations and
partnerships lead by not-for-profit
organisations
• Projects have to meet minimum of one
outcome for heritage, one outcome for
people and one outcome for communities
(up to £2million)
21. Contact us
Anna Moore, Development Officer
Heritage Lottery Fund
38 Thistle Street
Edinburgh
EH2 1EN
0131 240 1583
annam@hlf.org.uk
Editor's Notes
4 lottery funders BIG, sportscotland, Creative Scotland & HLF. Wholly lottery funded Edinburgh office for Scotland – 17 members of staff & development team of 3, who advise anyone interested in applying to HLF and work with organisations from all over scotland to get in strong applications. Thanks to strong lottery sales and the funding for the olympics going back into the pot the UK budget is at an all-time high, with £400million to distribute this year. grants from £3k - £20million (and counting – largest so far has been to the Riverside museum in Glasgow) for all types of heritage projects 16 programmes – will outline later in presentation, but hopefully means there will be one for the project you have in mind!
UNESCO world heritage definition Anything from the past that you want to share and sustain for the future. HLF doesn’t define heritage – it’s up to you to show us.
Launched new Strategic Framework in summer of 2012, can download from our website. Framework rather than plan – flexibility to respond as needed Approach: not just what a project will do, what difference it will make - to heritage, people (as individuals), and communities > outcomes Have launched ALL programmes now Keeping all existing programmes (updated and improved e.g. shorter decision times, and higher grants available) some new programmes new opportunities for funding – responding to changing funding environment, significant national events, and developments in the sector more straightforward application process for smaller grants
£400m budget for UK Scotland budget (grants up to £2m for open programmes) approx. £15m for 2013/14 Government has restored the 20% share to HLF from lottery money that is spent on “good causes”, the impact of the Olympics reaching completion, and the outstanding performance of the lottery ticket sales to date. Clearly, this is very welcome at a time when there is so much pressure on public finances. Lottery funding cannot take the place of public funding – nor should it – but it can make an important contribution to improve the condition and access to our heritage.
Our new strategic framework is less prescriptive about what we don’t fund. We will look for there to be a heritage focus and generally replicas or recreations aren’t very competitive as they don’t have as much of a heritage focus. Similarly overseas travel (to and/or from the UK) isn’t going to be able to deliver very good value for money and so is less likely to be funded. And we won’t fund projects that promote the cause or beliefs of political and faith organisations. *but can fund private organisations and individuals in some of our smaller programmes, if they demonstrate a step-change in their access to the public.
Have different requirements and weighted outcomes for different programmes so make sure you read the guidance. Key is quality not quantity!
New small grants programme- developed after success of AOS Aimed at community groups and small community heritage projects Short simple form PEOPLE will have learnt about heritage
Start-up- new community groups taking responsibility for heritage assets for the first time. Funding to create business plan and legal documents, to allow groups to create a strategy for managing their heritage. (Could then apply for funding for heritage focussed project) First World War Centenary- focussing on helping young people to understand the impact of WW1 in their local area- Running through until 2019 Celebrate- this programme is being run with all 4 lottery distributers. Want to help communities celebrate the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and help people learn about the games and the commonwealth countries. Grants start from £500
Also transition funding- for heritage organisations that want to achieve a significant strategic change in order to become more resilient. We MUST have funded them before.
Grants of £15,500 and £19,900 – making discoveries, adding to our knowledge of the landscapes and communities around us, involving volunteers with help from professional archaeologists
Grant of £50,000 to fit out museum with display cases and etc for their singer sewing machine and fine art collection.- allowing them to meet Government Indemnity requirement so then can loan important collections. Series of talks, events and childrens activities.
Only programme of its kind in the UK, encouraging young people to engage with heritage. £10,000 - £50,000 (slight change) Often the most creative projects, and all projects have to be led by young people (with young people rather than to) Not just heritage – can help them to develop key skills and change their attitudes or behaviour, particularly around heritage. Also encourage them to work with the local community to share their heritage Key aspect is a partnership between a youth organisation and a heritage organisation, building on strengths of both to make a strong project with lasting benefits. One of the key focuses in the office so always happy to help, or chat about it. As per OH – 8 week assessment, 100%. Image- Montrose Air Station
Place of worship/ listed/ urgent repairs 2 round process- as with HG- will discuss later 15% for new costs- could be improvements to access/ kitchen/ toilets Outcomes- HERITAGE in better condition and more PEOPLE and a wider range of people will have learnt about the heritage
95% & 90% Quarterly deadlines Image- Royal Mus Ed
Grant of under £1m B listed building- Museum dates from 1934 To re-do dated displays and to introduce a full learning programme. Learning post included in grant. Opened last week.
PfP: grants up to £5m for historic parks and cemeteries – easily accessed and well used green spaces in our communities – often neglected/ fall into decline – restore key features such as bandstands, railings, pavilions, original planting and design LP: grants up to £3m to conserve areas of distinctive landscape character examples in Scotland are Tweed River, Isle of Bute, Argyll (Dalriada), more recently Scapa Flow in Orkney, Clyde and Avon valley. Projects improving various heritage assets in area that are important to the landscape character e.g. natural heritage assets, built structures/ archaeology, cultural heritage, involving people, developing skills. Led by wide ranging partnership TH: grants up to £2m to improve built historic environment of conservation areas in need of investment in villages, towns or cities. Regenerate economically disadvantaged historic areas for the benefit of local residents, workers and visitors. This can include repair and re-use of vacant buildings, reinstate original architectural features on buildings e.g. shopfronts, improve public realm (footpaths, street furniture) HE: grants up to £5m to support the conservation and adaptation of an individual historic building or coherent group of buildings for an end use which actively contributes to sustainable development in areas experiencing economic disadvantage. Help to create more resilient model for the heritage with less dependency on public sector support. The key and common factor in all projects will be plans for a sustainable end use, most likely involving the generation of a commercial income. Focus of investment will be in areas of economic disadvantage, building/s should be of heritage value to the local community, private sector organisations will only be eligible as minority partners in a partnership led by not-for-profit org.