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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?
“Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today
and what we pass on to future generations.”
UNESCO
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Historic buildings and sites
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Natural heritage e.g. historic parks, wetlands, red kites, bumblebees
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Museums, archives and collections
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Cultural heritage e.g. oral history, place names, skills and traditions
Outcomes for Heritage, People and Communities
Outcomes for Heritage
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Better managed
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In better condition
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Better interpreted and
explained
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Identified and/or recorded
Outcomes for People
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Developed skills
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Learnt about heritage
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Changed their attitudes or
behaviour
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Had an enjoyable experience
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Volunteered time
Outcomes for Communities
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Environmental impacts will be reduced
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More people will have engaged with heritage
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Organisations will be more resilient
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Local economies will be boosted
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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
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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
Young Roots
• 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
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 Fund
38 Thistle Street
Edinburgh
EH2 1EN
0131 225 9450
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