Heritage Lottery Fund: Our Heritage

Archived Archives and artefacts Arts, culture and heritage Buildings and built environment Built heritage Craft and design Cultural heritage Cultural, events and festivals environment Natural environment and climate organisational development social enterprise Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Medium (up to £60,000)

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Overview

Under this rolling programme, they fund applications from:

Not-for-profit organisations
Private owners of heritage, including individuals and for-profit organisations
Partnerships of the above

If you are applying as a partnership, you will need to nominate a lead applicant. The lead applicant should provide a signed partnership agreement showing the involvement of each partner and how the project will be managed.

If private individuals or for-proit organisations are involved in a project, either as a partner or as the lead applicant, public benefit must outweigh private gain.

Here are some examples of the types of organisations they fund:

Community or voluntary groups
Community Interest Companies
Charities or trusts
Social enterprises
Community/parish councils
Local authorities
Other public sector organisations, such as nationally funded museums
private owners of heritage, including individuals and for-proit organisations.

Heritage includes many diferent things from the past that they value and want to pass on to future generations, for example:

Archaeological sites
Collections of objects, books or documents in museums, libraries or archives
Cultural traditions such as stories, festivals, crats, music, dance and costumes
Historic buildings
Histories of people and communities
Histories of places and events
The heritage of languages and dialects
Natural and designed landscapes and gardens
People’s memories and experiences (oten recorded as ‘oral history’);
Places and objects linked to our industrial, maritime and transport history
Natural heritage including habitats, species and geology.