Presentation by Megan Combe on Heritage Lottery Fund programmes, priority area and funding for heritage projects.

2. 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

3. What is heritage?

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

5. Priority areas from 2013
What does it mean?
Why Dumfries and
Galloway?
Development work

6. - 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
Examples of projects that we have funded

7. Projects achieving outcomes for:
• Heritage
• People
• Communities
Projects that make a lasting difference

8. Outcomes for Heritage
• Better managed
• In better condition
• Better interpreted and
explained
• Identified and/or
recorded

9. Outcomes for People
• Developed skills
• Learnt about heritage
• Changed their attitudes
or behaviour
• Had an enjoyable
experience
• Volunteered time

10. 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

11. Grant programmes
Small
(£3,000 - £10,000)
Medium
(£10,000 - £100,000)
Large
(over £100,000) two stage process

12. Sharing Heritage
• Celebrating community
heritage
• Grants from £3,000 - £10,000
• Not-for-profit groups
• 8 week assessment
• No application deadline
• Projects have to meet minimum
of one outcome for people

13. Grants up to £10,000
• Catalyst Small grants
• Start up grants
• First World War: then and now
• Celebrate

14. Our Heritage
• Grants from £10,000 - £100,000
• Replaces Your Heritage
programme
• 8 week assessment
• No application deadlines
• Prioritise not-for profit groups
• Projects have to meet minimum
of one outcome for heritage and
one outcome for people

15. Young Roots
• Engaging young people in
heritage
• Led by young people (11 –
25yrs)
• Grants from £10,000 - £50,000
• 8 week assessment
• No application deadlines
• Partnerships between youth
and heritage organisations
• Developing young people‟s
skills

16. Heritage Grants
• Grants over £100,000
• Two round application process with
development funding
• Projects have to achieve at least
one outcome for heritage, people
communities (up to £2million)
• Regular deadlines
• Scotland committee make decision
on requests up to £2million
• UK Board make decision on
requests over £2m

17. Grants over £100,000
• Heritage Enterprise
• Parks for People
• Landscape Partnerships
• Townscape Heritage
• Grants for Places of Worship

18. Making a good application to
HLF
top tips!

19. What we will assess
• Value for money - overall benefits of the project in relation
to the grant request
How your application shows that the project:
• Has a clear heritage focus
• Meets our outcomes for heritage, people and communities
• Is an appropriate response to a need or opportunity
• Is financially realistic and has a clear need for lottery funding
• Is well planned and managed
• Will be delivered by an organisation capable of completing
the project

20. Common pitfalls in projects
• The project has no heritage focus
• Project has already started
• Project delivers what could be considered „everyday work‟ of
an organisation
• Project is too ambitious for the organisation
• High costs of maintaining the project benefits after completion
• Not enough partnership funding
• No activities to engage people/communities

21. The application journey
Idea!
• Read the relevant guidance
• Fill in a project enquiry form online
• Act on advice given by Development Officer
Application
• Describe what you want to do clearly and succinctly
• Assume we have no prior knowledge
• Make sure the project costs add up
• Ask someone who does not know the project to read a draft application form
• Attach any supporting documents and submit online
• Leave enough time for assessment
Project
• If you‟re successful you must apply to HLF for permission to start (don‟t begin
without us!)
• Keep in touch – regular updates and photos are a must

22. How can we help?
Project Enquiry advice – online form
Website www.hlf.org.uk
• Application materials
• Guidance documents
• Case studies – examples of projects we‟ve funded

23. Contact us
Megan Combe, Development Officer
Heritage Lottery Fund
38 Thistle Street
Edinburgh
EH2 1EN
0131 225 9450
MeganC@hlf.org.uk
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