Who we are

• One of four lottery funders in Scotland• Support all types of heritage projects• Award grants over £3,000• £600m for Scotland’s heritage since 1994

What are we looking for?

Heritage focus

What is heritage?

“Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today and what we pass on to future generations.” UNESCO

• Historic buildings and sites

• Natural heritage (e.g. historic parks, biodiversity etc)

• Museums, archives and collections

• Industrial, transport & maritime heritage

• ‘Intangible’ heritage (e.g. oral history, language and dialect, place names, cultural traditions etc)

Projects achieving outcomes for:

• Heritage

• People

• Communities

Projects that make a lasting difference

Outcomes for Heritage

• Better managed

• In better condition

• Better interpreted and explained

• Identified and/or recorded

Outcomes for People

• Developed skills

• Learnt about heritage

• Changed their attitudes or behaviour

• Had an enjoyable experience

• Volunteered time

Outcomes for Communities

• Environmental impacts will be reduced

• More people will have engaged with heritage

• Organisations will be more resilient

• Local economies will be boosted

• Local communities will be a better place to live

Grant programmes

Sharing Heritage

(£3,000 - £10,000)

Your Heritage

(£10,000 - £100,000)

Heritage Grants

(over £100,000) two stage process

Heritage Grants

• Grants over £100,000• Two round application process with

development funding

• Projects have to achieve at least one outcome for heritage, people and communities (requests up to £2million)

• Scotland Committee make decisions on requests up to £2m

• UK Board make decisions on requests over £2m

Area regeneration

• Parks for People• Landscape Partnerships

• Townscape Heritage• Heritage Enterprise

Why Priority Areas?

Trying to achieve more equitable spread of funding

Focus on areas that have:• Lower levels of funding than

other areas• Social and economic

challenges• Potential for HLF projects

What does it mean?

We provide development support to:- Promote heritage- Develop projects- Improve the quality of

applications- Work in partnership

No allocation of funding

What can be achieved?

• More people aware of HLF funding opportunities

• Benefits for heritage, people, and communities through project funding

• More people involved in heritage

• Increased local support for heritage projects and what they can achieve

- Cree Valley Woodland Heritage- Crichton Memorial Church restoration- Gatehouse of Fleet in the Dark Ages- Moffat Museum- Dock Park- Machars Archaeological Project

- Langholm Heritage Trail- Mull of Galloway Lighthouse Project

Going forward….

What we have funded in D&G

How can we help?

• Project Enquiry advice – online form• Local advice surgeries• Funding Fairs and Events • Information on website www.hlf.org.uk