Our Grant Priorities
Our purpose at Historic England is to improve people’s lives by championing and protecting the historic environment.
Our grant priorities are directly informed by our corporate plan, which is the framework for all our work as an organisation.
The grants we give play an important part in the journey towards our vision of an historic environment that everyone can connect with and learn from, and that we are proud to pass on to future generations.
To be eligible to apply for a grant your activity needs to meet one or more of our 4 grant priorities to:
- Help more people to connect with, enjoy and benefit from the historic environment
- Use heritage to improve civic pride, prosperity and wellbeing
- Achieve a positive change and sustainable future for historic places including buildings, landscapes, archaeological sites and marine assets
- Ensure heritage plays an important role in the fight to limit and manage the effects of climate change
We know there will be many worthwhile projects applying for our grants that will meet our priorities. However, our funding is limited, and the application process is competitive. Unfortunately, we cannot support all the applications we receive.
Because our grants use public funds, we carefully ensure those we award have maximum public value and align with our corporate plan. We may also consider the geographical spread of our grants across England.
We particularly invite applications for our places and people funding that address these areas of focus:
- Need: projects to serve the most in need communities, using English indices of deprivation as a tool to identify that
- Partnership: projects which support the resilience, innovation and growth of partners, building skills and confidence in communities
- Growth: projects which support getting vacant sites back into use, securing existing beneficial uses and promoting positive change in places
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