Heritage Lottery Fund: Kick the Dust

Overview

Kick the Dust is intended to:

make heritage relevant to more, and a greater diversity of, young people, building on their needs and interests;
increase the ambition, scale and quality of youth engagement with heritage;
develop sustainable, ongoing work with young people within heritage organisations; and
show the value of youth engagement with heritage.

Who can apply?

Kick the Dust funds applications from consortiums of three or more organisations.

Consortiums should include heritage and youth organisations, and may include other types of organisations. Overall, a consortium must include at least one partner that can demonstrate a credible track record in working with young people. You will also need to consider how your consortium can develop the youth focused work of a number of heritage sites or services.

A consortium could, for example, be based around a type of heritage, a local area, particular groups of young people or a type of activity. A consortium or project, could cover one local authority, region or country, or they could cover multiple places and cross regional or country borders.

You will need to choose a lead applicant, who will send in the application and receive the grant. This must not be a formal education establishment, such as a school or college.

What are the 3 types of outcomes they want to fund?

1) Outcomes for heritage

Heritage will be:

better managed
in better condition
better interpreted and explained
identified/recorded

2) Outcomes for people

People will have:

developed skills
learnt about heritage
changed their attitudes and/or behaviour
had an enjoyable experience
volunteered time

3) Outcomes for communities

For local communities:

environmental impacts will be reduced
more people and a wider range of people will have engaged with heritage
the local area/community will be a better place to live, work or visit
the local economy will be boosted
organisations will be more resilient.

As a minimum, they expect projects to achieve:

one outcome for heritage;
one outcome for people; and
one outcome for communities

For full details on all aspects of the the scheme and more guidance on indvidual aspects see the website

What costs can be funded?

Your application should include all direct project costs, i.e. costs that are directly incurred as a result of the project, including:

activities to engage young people with heritage;
young people’s expenses;
payments and bursaries for trainees;
staff and volunteer training and mentoring;
new staff to deliver the project;
extra hours for existing staff to deliver the project;
the cost of filling a post left empty by moving an existing member of staff into a post created for the project;
professional fees;
support for your consortium, such as a facilitator;
limited capital work, as appropriate;
promotion; and
equipment and materials that you will need to deliver your project.

They also expect you to include costs for evaluating your project, and recommend setting aside between 3% and 7% of your total project budget for the evaluation.

Full cost recovery

For voluntary organisations, they can also accept part of an organisation’s overheads (sometimes called ‘core costs’) as part of the costs of the project. However, they cannot accept applications for full cost recovery from public-sector organisations, such as government-funded museums, local authorities, or universities.For more details on this see the website.

Partnership/Match Funding

They will ask you to make a contribution towards your project. They describe this as ‘partnership funding’ and it can be made up of cash, volunteer time, non-cash contributions, or a combination of all of these. Some of your partnership funding must be from your own organisation’s resources. Under this programme you must contribute at least 5% of the costs of your development phase and 5% of the costs of your delivery phase.

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