Who we are

• One of four lottery funders in Scotland

• Team of staff based in Edinburgh

• Funding projects that make a lasting difference to heritage and people

What is heritage?

• Historic buildings and sites

• Natural heritage e.g. historic parks, wetlands, red kites, bumblebees

• Museums, archives and collections

• Cultural heritage e.g. oral history, place names, skills and traditions

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

Outcomes for Heritage, People and Communities

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

Sharing Heritage

•Grants from £3,000 - £10,000•Exploring, sharing, and celebrating community heritage•For not-for-profit groups•8 week assessment•Can fund up to 100%•No application deadline

•Projects have to engage people with heritage

Our Heritage

• Grants from £10,000 - £100,000• Prioritise not-for profit groups• 8 week assessment• Can fund up to 100%• No application deadlines

• Projects have to engage people in heritage and achieve outcomes for heritage

• For young people aged 11 – 25 years

• Grants from £10,000 - £50,000 • Can fund up to 100%• Assessment within 8 weeks• Must have heritage and youth

partner

Young Roots

Outcomes

Young People:• Developing skills & challenging

attitudes• Learning and exploring heritage• Celebrating achievements with the

wider community• Having fun!

• Helping young people to explore heritage

• Partnership of youth and heritage organisations

First World War: then & now

• Exploring legacy of the Great War

• Grants from £3,000 - £10,000• Not-for-profit groups• 8 week assessment• Can pay up to 100%• No application deadline• Projects have to meet at

least one outcome for people

Gordon Highlanders Museum

• Grant of £8,300• ‘Oh What a Lovely War –

The fact, The fiction’• Young people

researching the war to understand more about the impact using collections at the museum

• Aberdeen Amateur Opera Society performance

Golden Times Stories

• Merkinch Community Centre, Inverness

• Grant of £30,500• Training in oral history for

volunteers• Produced films on work, school,

play, transport etc.• Celebration showing artefacts• goldenstories.co.uk

Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership

• Grant of £1.3m• Led by Orkney Islands Council• 5 year project focused on

landscape• Important marine heritage,

wildlife, wartime, cultural heritage

• Sharing skills – boatbuilding, nature conservation, traditions and stories

What next?

Next steps

Look at the website

www.hlf.org.uk

Make sure your project has a heritage focus Send in a project enquiry form Act on our advice!

Contact us

Heritage Lottery Fund38 Thistle StreetEdinburghEH2 1EN0131 225 9450

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