Heritage Grants is our main grants programme offering grants of more than £100,000 for projects that relate to the national, regional or local heritage of the UK (except the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man).
To receive a grant your project must:
- help people to learn about their own and other people’s heritage
Your project must also do either or both of the following:
- conserve the UK’s diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy;
- help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about heritage.
Timescale
We assess all applications in two rounds. Heritage Grant is a rolling programme and there are no deadlines for applications under £5million. It will take us three months from the date we receive your first and/or second-round application to assess it. We will decide on your application at the next available meeting after the three-month assessment process has passed.
Your grant request is the combined total of your development grant (if applicable) and delivery grant.
Grants of over £100,000 and under £2million
Our Country and Regional Committees meet four times a year to make decisions on Heritage Grants of over £100,000 and under £2million – June, September, December and March.
Grants of £2million and under £5million
Our Board meets six times a year to make decisions on Heritage Grants of £2million and under £5million. So, if you want to receive a decision on your first-round application at a specific meeting, you should discuss submission dates with your local team. Application forms and all supporting materials will need to have been received by HLF no later than the following dates:
- 15 February 2012 for the Board meeting on 22 May 2012
- 5 April 2012 for the Board meeting on 16/17 July 2012
- 25 June 2012 for the Board meeting on 1/2 October 2012
- 6 August 2012 for the Board meeting on 13 November 2012
- 22 October 2012 for the Board meeting on 29 January 2013
- 19 December 2012 for the Board meeting on 26 March 2013
Grants of £5million or more
Applications for grants of £5million or more are assessed, in a competitive batch, once a year by our Board. The deadline for first-round applications is 30 November for each year with a decision by April the following year. If you are successful at first-round, then the second-round applications may be submitted at any time within two years of the original decision and it will be considered by the Board at the next available decision meeting. You should discuss submission dates with your local team. If you are submitting an application the deadlines are as follows:
- First-round applications: 30 November 2012, with a decision in April 2013. Applicants will have until March 2015 to work up and submit their second-round application for decision.
We strongly recommend you contact us for advice before making an application. You should complete the pre-application enquiry form and full application form online. To do this register and apply.