Heritage Lottery Fund: Grants for Places of Worship (Northern Ireland)
Overview
The Grants for Places of Worship programme is for projects that involve urgent structural repairs to public places of worship that are listed at A, B+, B, B1 or B2. As part of a repair project. They can also fund work to encourage greater community use and engagement. You can apply for a grant from £10,000 to £250,000.
The programme funds applications from all faith groups and denominations which are responsible for maintaining and repairing their place of worship. In order to apply, you must be a formally constituted organisation (governed by a set of rules, known as a constitution).
What they fund
Under this programme, we fund projects that repair listed places of worship that are currently used for worship at least six times a year. The priority for this programme is to support structural repairs urgently required within the next two years that have been clearly identified and defined in a condition survey such as a Quinquennial Inspection.
When they say a project, they mean work or activity that:
- is defined at the outset;
- has not yet started;
- will take no more than three years to complete;
- will contribute towards achieving the outcomes below.
Expected outcomes
- Outcomes for heritage: With the investment, heritage will be: in better condition
- Outcomes for communities: With the investment: more people and a wider range of people will have engaged with heritage.