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
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