Cultures and Memories
Funding Programmes
Sharing Heritage
Grant requests of £3,000 to £10,000
First World War: then and now
Grant requests of £3,000 to £10,000
Our Heritage
Grant requests of £10,000 to £100,000
Young Roots
Grant requests of £10,000 to £50,000
Heritage Grants
Grant requests of £100,000 +
Other HLF programmes:
Parks for People
Landscape Partnership Scheme
Townscape Heritage
Heritage Enterprise
Grants for Places of Worship
Catalyst
Start-up Grants
Transition Funding
Key points for our
programmes:
• HLF funds projects;
• All projects must have a
heritage focus;
• All projects must include
plans and costs.
Sharing Heritage
Grants of £3,000 to £10,000
• New small grants programme
• No application deadline
• Decision in 8 weeks
• Short application form
• For not-for-profit groups wishing
to explore, share and celebrate
their heritage
• Must meet one outcome for
people
The Cultural Heritage of
North Paddington
• All Our Stories project example
• Young people and over 50s
exploring Queen’s Park area
• Looking particularly at food and
architecture
• Creating a video and an exhibition
• Working in conjunction with
University College London and
Westminster Archives
First World War: then and now
Grants of £3,000 to £10,000
• For communities to explore,
conserve and share their First
World War heritage;
• No application deadline
• Decision in 8 weeks
• Short application form
• For projects which benefit all
ages
• Must meet one outcome for
people
Our Heritage
Grants of £10,000 to £100,000
• No application deadline
• Decision in 8 weeks
• One short application
• Applications meet 2 outcomes
(one for heritage and one for
people)
Healing Histories
Grant Programme: Your Heritage
We Are What We Wear
Grant Programme: Your Heritage
Our Heritage – Capital project
Applicant: Canal Museum
Awarded: £99,300
• Preserve and improve interpretation of the 2 ice wells
• Volunteers trained in oral history recording, research and
delivering talks to the public
• New smartphone guide developed
• Series of public events including ice well descent, ice cream
making workshops and ice activity workshops
Young Roots
Projects delivered by 11–25 year olds
 Grants of £10,000 to £50,000, for up to
2 years
 Delivered through partnerships of
heritage and youth organisations
 Young people should learn about
heritage and gain new skills or
opportunituies
 Young people should lead activities
and share their learning with others
 Same short process as Our Heritage
Tribal
Grant Programme: Young Roots
Heritage Grants
• Grants of over £100,000
• For heritage of regional
or national importance
• Two round application
process
• 3 months assessment at
each round
• Development funding
and mentoring support
available
Our Mission Statement:
‘A lasting difference for heritage and people’
We will achieve this through our projects delivering a
broad range of ‘Outcomes’. These come under 3
headings:
• What difference will your project make for heritage?
• What difference will your project make for people?
• What difference will your project make for
communities?
Question 3d. What outcomes will your project achieve?
What difference will your project make for heritage?
With HLF investment, heritage will be:
• Better managed
• In better condition
• Better interpreted and explained
• Identified and/or recorded
What difference will your project make for people?
With HLF investment, people will
have:
• Learnt about heritage*
• Developed skills
• Changed their attitudes and/or
behaviour
• Had an enjoyable experience
• Volunteered time
*weighted outcome
What difference will your project make for
communities?
With HLF investment:
• Environmental impacts will be
reduced
• More people and a wider range
of people will have engaged
with heritage
• Organisations will be more
resilient
• Local economies will be
boosted
• Local areas/communities will
be a better place to live, work
or visit
Young Roots programme outcomes
Outcomes for people
With our investment, people will have:
• Developed skills
• Learnt about heritage
• Changed their attitudes and/or behaviour
• Had an enjoyable experience
Outcomes for communities
With our investment:
• More people and a wider range of people will have engaged
with heritage
Outcomes for heritage
With our investment, heritage will be:
• In better condition
• Better interpreted and explained
• Identified and recorded
Digital guidance
• Anything that you create as part of your project in a digital
format is considered a digital output. This includes:
• Oral history recordings
• Website
• Apps
• All digital outputs must be useable and available for five years
from the end of your project.
• Must be free of charge for non-commercial uses
• Whenever possible we would encourage you to contribute
anything you create digitally to relevant heritage collections.
• More information available online or speak to your development
officer.
Here are 3 examples of projects to be
assessed.
You need to make a quick decision on which applications
you will look at in more detail.
From reading the project summary:
 Which applications do you think have potential?
 Why?
Applicant 1
Project Summary:
A local theatre group wants to explore
journeys. They will involve members of
the community in recording oral histories
and young people will write the script for
the performance.
Is this a heritage project?
Applicant 2
Project Summary:
Our organisation wants to work with a
number of local communities to
research and develop an exhibition
depicting the history of the borough
during the First World War. The
exhibition can be viewed by the public
at the library during June 2013.
Is this a heritage project?
What is the focus?
Applicant 3
The project will give students the
opportunity to learn about the history of
urban music and the links between
music and youth rebellion. 25 young
people will participate in workshops
and seminars, and conduct archival
research and oral history interviews.
A documentary DVD will be produced,
and distributed to schools along with
learning packs, in conjunction with
workshops delivered by the college
students.
Is this a heritage project?
Our Heritage or Young Roots?