Heritage Funds and Grants
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Restoration and Repair Grants :
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020 75916042
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We award grants of between £500 and £10,000 for people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.
020 75916042
enquire@hlf.org.uk
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for website and further details
Notes:
This programme offers grants of £50,000 or more. Projects should look after and enhance the UK's heritage; to increase involvement in heritage activities; and to improve accesss to and enjoyment of heritage.
The main switchboard telephone number for our Head Office is 020 7591 6000.
We can normally answer your helpline queries between 9:30am and 5:30pm Mondays to Fridays, or you can leave a message with us outside these hours.
We have a minicom service for people who are hard of hearing: 020 7591 6255. You can use this service if you have access to a minicom textphone.
We have offices in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and regional offices across England:
020 75916042
enquire@hlf.org.uk
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for website and further details
Notes:
Repair Grants for Places of Worship:
£10,000 to £250,000 in England and Scotland
£10,000 to £100,000 in Northern Ireland and Wales
This programme is designed to help sustain and conserve heritage at risk, through urgent repairs to places of worship. The UK-wide scheme is delivered through four separate programmes in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
In all countries, the following key criteria apply:
The place of worship must be listed
The project must be for urgent, high-level repair works
After the project is completed, you will be required to open your place of worship for at least forty days outside of normal worship times.
020 75916042
enquire@hlf.org.uk
Click
for website and further details
Notes:
Through our Townscape Heritage Initiative, we make grants that help communities to regenerate the historic parts of their towns and cities.
The main switchboard telephone number for our Head Office is 020 7591 6000.
We can normally answer your helpline queries between 9:30am and 5:30pm Mondays to Fridays, or you can leave a message with us outside these hours.
We have a minicom service for people who are hard of hearing: 020 7591 6255. You can use this service if you have access to a minicom textphone.
We have offices in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and regional offices across England:
Click
for website and further details
Notes:
Heritage Management Plan grants -
An incentive for landowners to prepare Heritage Management Plans (HMPs) that deliver integrated sustainable management of outstanding land designated or in process of designation as conditionally exempt from inheritance tax.
and
Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund - To reduce the effects of aggregate extraction on local communities and the natural environment.
many others may also be suitable
0131 331 5875
info@scottishconservationstudio.co.uk
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for website and further details
Notes:
The Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust provides funding to Museums Galleries Scotland to distribute to Full members.
The Trust’s priority is to assist development in smaller independent member museums with paper conservation and collections care projects such as collection condition surveys, conservation treatment and related staff coaching/training.
It is a condition set by the Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust that all work is undertaken by the Scottish Conservation Studio and you should contact Helen Creasy at the Scottish Conservation Studio in the first instance to discuss your project or request an estimate:
conservationyork@hotmail.com
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for website and further details
Notes:
Applications are invited by the York Foundation for Conservation and Craftsmanship for bursaries to assist the training of Craftsmen and conservators. Bursaries of up to £1,500 each are available to further the knowledge and skills of craftsmen and conservators at various stages of their careers. This can include CPD courses. Bursaries of up to £3,000 are offered to encourage and assist established craftsmen and conservators to take on a new apprentice/trainee.
The total sum available is £12,000, made up of £8000 from the Foundation’s own Bursary Fund, £2,000 funded by the York Company of Merchant Taylors, and £1,000 each from the Freemasons and from the Historic Houses Association (Yorkshire Region) in association with Coutts Bank. While the Merchant Taylors award is restricted to young people with links to York and its surrounding area, the other awards have no such restriction (though if all other things prove equal, preference will be given to an applicant living, training or employed in the Yorkshire Region).
Applications will be judged on merit and need, and there are no restrictions on who may apply. Employers may apply on behalf of employees. Bursaries will not generally be awarded to assist the funding of a student’s undergraduate degree or equivalent course. In the case of individual applications preference will be given to those seeking advanced skills or training in crafts/specialities in short supply.
The Trustees are particularly keen to facilitate the taking on of new trainees/apprentices. This would include someone starting out or part way through a three year apprenticeship, or a person not yet in the trade/profession but who, having had some basic skills training or relevant experience, needs further skills training to qualify. Applications for such bursaries would normally be expected from the potential employer, and could be used in a variety of ways to reduce the employer’s costs, e.g. those related to the introductory training demanded by legal requirements. That should not preclude applications from employers for other purposes, nor from potential trainees who have identified a committed potential employer.
In 2008 seven awards were made ranging in value from £500 to £2,000. The winners included a self-employed carpenter, a firm of decorative plasterers, and conservators of books and armour. A full list of 2008 and previous year’s winners can be found here.
Application forms can be downloaded here or may be obtained from the Secretary of the Foundation
by email: conservationyork@hotmail.com
or by post: The Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate, York YO1 9XD
The closing date for receipt of applications is Saturday 28 March 2009
Awards for All
Heritage Lottery
United Kingdom
020 75916042 enquire@hlf.org.uk Click
for website and further details
Notes:
We award grants of between £500 and £10,000 for people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.
Heritage Grants
Heritage Lottery
United Kingdom
020 75916042 enquire@hlf.org.uk Click
for website and further details
Notes:
This programme offers grants of £50,000 or more. Projects should look after and enhance the UK's heritage; to increase involvement in heritage activities; and to improve accesss to and enjoyment of heritage.
The main switchboard telephone number for our Head Office is 020 7591 6000.
We can normally answer your helpline queries between 9:30am and 5:30pm Mondays to Fridays, or you can leave a message with us outside these hours.
We have a minicom service for people who are hard of hearing: 020 7591 6255. You can use this service if you have access to a minicom textphone.
We have offices in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and regional offices across England:
Repairs for places of worship
Heritage Lottery
United Kingdom
020 75916042 enquire@hlf.org.uk Click
for website and further details
Notes:
Repair Grants for Places of Worship:
£10,000 to £250,000 in England and Scotland
£10,000 to £100,000 in Northern Ireland and Wales
This programme is designed to help sustain and conserve heritage at risk, through urgent repairs to places of worship. The UK-wide scheme is delivered through four separate programmes in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
In all countries, the following key criteria apply:
The place of worship must be listed
The project must be for urgent, high-level repair works
After the project is completed, you will be required to open your place of worship for at least forty days outside of normal worship times.
Townscape Heritage Initiative
Heritage Lottery
United Kingdom
020 75916042 enquire@hlf.org.uk Click
for website and further details
Notes:
Through our Townscape Heritage Initiative, we make grants that help communities to regenerate the historic parts of their towns and cities.
The main switchboard telephone number for our Head Office is 020 7591 6000.
We can normally answer your helpline queries between 9:30am and 5:30pm Mondays to Fridays, or you can leave a message with us outside these hours.
We have a minicom service for people who are hard of hearing: 020 7591 6255. You can use this service if you have access to a minicom textphone.
We have offices in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and regional offices across England:
Natural England Grants
Natural England
England
Click
for website and further details
Notes:
Heritage Management Plan grants -
An incentive for landowners to prepare Heritage Management Plans (HMPs) that deliver integrated sustainable management of outstanding land designated or in process of designation as conditionally exempt from inheritance tax.
and
Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund - To reduce the effects of aggregate extraction on local communities and the natural environment.
many others may also be suitable
Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust fund
Scottish Museums Council
Scotland
0131 331 5875 info@scottishconservationstudio.co.uk Click
for website and further details
Notes:
The Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust provides funding to Museums Galleries Scotland to distribute to Full members.
The Trust’s priority is to assist development in smaller independent member museums with paper conservation and collections care projects such as collection condition surveys, conservation treatment and related staff coaching/training.
It is a condition set by the Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust that all work is undertaken by the Scottish Conservation Studio and you should contact Helen Creasy at the Scottish Conservation Studio in the first instance to discuss your project or request an estimate:
Grants and Bursaries for the Training of Craftsmen and Craftsmanship
York Foundation for Conservation and Craftsmanship
United Kingdom
conservationyork@hotmail.com Click
for website and further details
Notes:
Applications are invited by the York Foundation for Conservation and Craftsmanship for bursaries to assist the training of Craftsmen and conservators. Bursaries of up to £1,500 each are available to further the knowledge and skills of craftsmen and conservators at various stages of their careers. This can include CPD courses. Bursaries of up to £3,000 are offered to encourage and assist established craftsmen and conservators to take on a new apprentice/trainee.
The total sum available is £12,000, made up of £8000 from the Foundation’s own Bursary Fund, £2,000 funded by the York Company of Merchant Taylors, and £1,000 each from the Freemasons and from the Historic Houses Association (Yorkshire Region) in association with Coutts Bank. While the Merchant Taylors award is restricted to young people with links to York and its surrounding area, the other awards have no such restriction (though if all other things prove equal, preference will be given to an applicant living, training or employed in the Yorkshire Region).
Applications will be judged on merit and need, and there are no restrictions on who may apply. Employers may apply on behalf of employees. Bursaries will not generally be awarded to assist the funding of a student’s undergraduate degree or equivalent course. In the case of individual applications preference will be given to those seeking advanced skills or training in crafts/specialities in short supply.
The Trustees are particularly keen to facilitate the taking on of new trainees/apprentices. This would include someone starting out or part way through a three year apprenticeship, or a person not yet in the trade/profession but who, having had some basic skills training or relevant experience, needs further skills training to qualify. Applications for such bursaries would normally be expected from the potential employer, and could be used in a variety of ways to reduce the employer’s costs, e.g. those related to the introductory training demanded by legal requirements. That should not preclude applications from employers for other purposes, nor from potential trainees who have identified a committed potential employer.
In 2008 seven awards were made ranging in value from £500 to £2,000. The winners included a self-employed carpenter, a firm of decorative plasterers, and conservators of books and armour. A full list of 2008 and previous year’s winners can be found here.
Application forms can be downloaded here or may be obtained from the Secretary of the Foundation
by email: conservationyork@hotmail.com
or by post: The Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate, York YO1 9XD
The closing date for receipt of applications is Saturday 28 March 2009