2. HLF Funding Opportunities
Drew Bennellick
Head of Landscape & Natural Heritage UK
Presentation to cover what HLF is, some examples of the things we fund and an outline of our new strategic framework which comes in to force this April.

3. What is HLF? Set-up in 1994 £1 ticket – 28p to Good Causes
HLF gets 5p per £1 ticket
To date distributed £5 billion to 33,000 projects across UK
£1 billion awarded to landscape and natural heritage projects
Around £640m to public parks,
Around £400m to countryside/nature
£405 million to invest in heritage projects in 2013/14.
HLF is a lottery distributer
Award grants from pot of ‘good causes’ – of £1 ticket, 28p goes to this – HLF 5p each
Good causes funding shared between HLF (20%), Big Lottery Fund (40%), Arts Council (20%) & Sport (20%)
£405m this year to invest this year across the UK.
Majority of landscape and environment funding is through Parks for People and Landscape Partnership programmes and the open Heritage Grants programme.

4. Our definition of heritage is…
“….everything tangible and intangible that we have inherited from the past, and value enough to want to share and sustain for the future.”
Natural, semi-natural and designed landscapes;
Natural heritage including habitats, species and geodiversity;
historic buildings and archaeological sites;
people’s memories and experiences
languages and dialects;
cultural traditions such as stories, festivals and crafts;
histories of places and events;
collections of objects or documents in museums or archives;
industrial, maritime and transport history.
The list of what heritage could be should give you confidence that just about anything could be a heritage project. The key is how the project is balanced to ensure that it is fundamentally a heritage rather than an arts or social welfare project, that it offers good value for money, and that the heritage theme of the project is clear and suitably focused.
Geodiversity added to the list. We’ve always funded it but never said so so explicitly before.

5. Nevis Landscape Partnership – A Place of Contrast – first round pass awarded but £1.9m earmarked for this project.
One of 80 Landscape Partnerships across the UK. HLF’s landscape scale programme which has seen over £100m invested to date. Programme will continue to 2018 investing around £20m per year providing strong supportable schemes come forward.
This project includes work on training volunteers, building and restoring hiking paths, some of which are historic pony tracks, habitat recording and conservation, recording people’s stories and the trial excavations of som of the mountains scheduled ancient monuments..

8. Cornwall’s marine heritage project
Cornwall’s marine heritage project. A Heritage Grant of £103,000 awarded to Cornwall Wildlife Trust.
A three year project to help people access and explore the coast and seascape of Cornwall. Includes cliffs, rockpools, tidal mudflats, dunes and beaches.
150 events are planned over the three years to engage all people and especially schools.
Also includes volunteers being trained in marine ecology and survey to help record and study vulnerable habitats and species.
Cornwall’s tourism industry brings in 4 million tourists per year and coastal recreation is key component of this.

9. Scotland’s Rural Past project.
5 year project to survey the hundreds of deserted rural settlements across the highlands.
Project is about training volunteers to identify, record, survey and interpret rural settlements.
Despite HLF’s part of the project now being complete the survey work is continuing and data is being archived and made accessible.

10. Small Your Heritage (now Our Heritage) project to celebrate the 50 year birthday of the South Devon AONB – 1960 to 2010.
20,000 people became involved.
Included a community web based project to record ideas, thoughts and views.
Fantastic website which is a good model.

11. Not only does the website encourage people to get out and see things but other webpages include:-
Eat local
Name an AONB hero
What stories or ides might you want to pass on
Where are the traditional skills in the AONB

12. A lasting difference for heritage and people
Heritage Lottery Fund
Strategic Framework
Picture of Giants Causeway where HLF worked with the National Trust to part fund a new visitor centre.
In April this year we start to deliver our new Strategic Framework for the years
We believe that the impact of heritage projects on individuals, communities and on the sector as a whole can be transformational – and this is reflected in the title of this, our fourth strategy – A lasting difference for heritage and people.
In this presentation I will give an overview of the new programmes you will see being introduced over the coming months. However, we still have a lot of money to give out this financial year, so if you have a pressing project that is very nearly ready for submission, please contact us as soon as possible. Information on all our current programmes is available on our website at
Key new themes for 2013:-
Digital – new guidance called Thinking About Digital is available on our website
Greater support and interest in ensuring the resilience and future of the projects and organisations we fund.
New carbon footprinter tool introduced for all Heritage Grant applications over £1m.
Encouragement and support to encourage private and corporate giving through new programmes focussed on fundraising skills called Catalyst. 12

13. Open programmes Sharing Heritage – grants £3000 - £10,000
Our Heritage –
grants £10,000 - £100,000
Heritage Grants -
grants £100,000 +
These are our general programmes that roll on continuously all year and will continue until 2018.
Sharing heritage – new small grants programme for community, voluntary and first time applicants. Up to 100% funding.
Our Heritage (used to be called Your Heritage and used to only be to £50,000). 100% funding although we are keen people do try to find match funding as it creates better value for our money. One round application process decided by Heads of our countries and Regions at regular batch meetings.
Heritage Grants grants of £100,000 upwards. Our main grant programme through which 75% of our funding is awarded. Up to £1m you need to find at least 5%, over £1m you need to find at least 10%. We can match other lottery money, eg Big but you still need to contribute the minimum match sums from your own resources which can also include voluntary contributions.

14. Targeted programmes Parks for People – grants of £100,000 - £5m
Landscape Partnerships –
grants of £100,000 - £3m
Skills for the Future –
grants of £100,000 - £1m
Young Roots –
Grants of £10,000 - £50,000
Targeted programmes have been introduced to satisfy particular demands or to support sectors that have done less well through Heritage Grants.
Parks for People – began in 1996 and still huge demand. £640m awarded to over 700 projects to date. In England HLF also runs the programme with Big Lottery. Per year HLF has £20m to award to parks in England, and £4m to parks in NI, Wales and Scotland. Big will add £10m per year to the England budget. Two batches per year.
Landscape Partnerships – annual budget of around £20m. One batch per year. Deadline in May each year with decisions in October.
Skills for the Future. £17m awarded to 54 projects last year. New round this year – although deadline for registering applications is 31st Jan 2013.
Young Roots – for partnerships involving young people and heritage conservation organisations working in partnership. All countries and regions have targets for this programme many of which are often not met. Apply!”

15. New application materials and forms
October 2012
Heritage Grants
Parks for People
Skills for the Future
February 2013
Sharing Heritage
Our Heritage
Young Roots
Landscape Partnerships
We aim to introduce new application materials and forms in two tranches, dependent on the timetable for the first deadlines for each programme. All decisions from April 2013 will be made under the new framework.
If you have any questions about the new materials and guidance, do look at our website or ask your local HLF team for advice. 15

16. HLF Outcomes Heritage outcomes. Heritage will be: Better managed
In better condition
Better interpreted and explained
Identified/recorded
Outcomes for individuals. People will have:
Learnt about heritage
Developed skills
Changed their attitudes and/or behaviour
Had an enjoyable experience
Volunteered time
We are also moving to a more transparent outcomes approach.
We now have 14 outcomes divided in to 3 key groups, heritage, people and communities.
You don’t have to deliver every outcome with project.

17. HLF Outcomes Outcomes for communities/society
Environmental impacts will be reduced
More people and a wider range of people will have engaged with heritage
Organisations will be more resilient
Local economies will be boosted
Local areas/communities will be a better place to live, work, or visit.
£3,000 - £10,000 minimum one outcome
£10,000 - £100,000 minimum one heritage and one people outcome
£100, a range of outcomes
At the bottom of this slide you can see howmany outcomes you actually need to deliver with any one project.
For the targeted programmes, each programme has its own set of these outcomes which you must deliver – for example in Landscape Partnerships we have identified nine of the above outcomes that every project must deliver. This is all based on our experience of what projects are able to deliver and what makes a good project.

18. How we assess applications
What is the heritage focus of the project?
What is the need or opportunity that the project is responding to?
Why now and why is Lottery funding required?
What outcomes will the project achieve?
Does your project offer value for money?
Is the project well planned?
Is the project financially realistic?
Will the project outcomes be sustained after the project has ended?
All self explanatory.
Second bullet – increased interest and emphasis on addressing heritage considered at risk of loss or opportunities not to be missed.
Why now – it is important you tell us if your project must be delivered now to take advantage of time-limited funding sources, things an imminent danger of being lost or any other factors that make now essential.

19. HLF project enquiry service
Initial heritage idea (discuss with local partners and communities),
Read HLF’s guidance notes,
Submit a project enquiry form,
HLF response in 10 working days
Attend a grant surgery
Develop your idea
Submit draft budget
Apply!
You are urged to complete a project enquiry form for any project. Projects that don’t submit them lose out on valuable free advice fro HLF development teams and are less likely to be successful.
The forms can be downloaded from our website –

20. wwww.hlf.org.uk/inyourarea