Heritage Lottery Fund Start Up Grants

Grants are available for groups in the UK to help them create a new organisation to look after heritage or engage people with heritage, or for existing groups taking on new responsibilities for heritage.

The funding can pay for activities that:

• Make a difference to people, heritage and communities in the UK.
• Have not yet started.
• Will last no more than one year.

Grants range from £3,000 to £10,000

Not-for-profit organisations and partnerships led by not-for-profit organisations can apply.

This includes:

• Charities or trusts.
• Community, voluntary or friends of groups.
• Companies limited by guarantee.
• Community or parish councils.
• Community Interest Companies.
• Social enterprises.

Organisations that do not have a bank account or constitution and want to use a Start-up grant to help them do that will need to ask an existing not-for-profit organisation to make the application and accept the funding on their behalf.

Projects must contribute to achieving the following three outcomes:

• Heritage will be better managed.
• People will have developed skills.
• The organisation will be more resilient.

Start-up grants can support a range of things that might need to be done to get started as a new group or get a new heritage project off the ground. They can pay for activities that:

• Make a difference to people, heritage and communities in the UK.
• Have not yet started.
• Will last no more than one year.

For more information go to:  https://www.hlf.org.uk/looking-funding/our-grant-programmes/start-grants

(Source: Grantfinder)