Grants for Heritage

The National Lottery Grants for Heritage funding programme has been created as part of National Lottery Heritage Fund Strategic Funding Framework 2019 to 2024.

The funding will support a broad range of heritage projects and activities, such as industrial sites, castles and historic places of worship, to the stories and memories of communities, and through to public parks, natural landscapes and native wildlife 

During 2021-22, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, priority will be given to at least one or more of the following outcomes:

Disabled Children's Holiday Grant

The Adamson Trust provides financial help towards the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disabled children between 3 and 17, with physical mental or emotional impairments.

 

For full details please follow the link to the website.The Adamson Trust is a long established Perthshire charity based in Crieff.

We are able to give financial help with the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disabled children aged between 3 and 17 with physical, mental or emotional impairments. We can only give help for this purpose.

 

Who Can Apply?

Open Grants Scheme

The Ragdoll Foundation’s Open Grants Scheme supports the cultural sector’s work with children and young people. Our vision is to support high quality, innovative arts engagement projects where the concerns of childhood can be heard. All applications are expected to contribute to the Ragdoll Foundation’s primary purpose.  There are two strands: Small Grants and Main Grants.

Older People Grant

Barchester's Charitable Foundation is a grant giving charity that helps older people and other adults with a disability across England, Scotland & Wales to lead more fulfilled lives and reach their full potential.

The Foundation’s focus is on connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community, helping combat isolation and loneliness and enabling people to be active and engaged.

Our Space Your Place Grants

Provided by housebuilding company David Wilson Homes North West, which currently has developments in Warrington, Wigan, Sandbach, Nantwich, Silverdale, Rochdale and Liverpool, the Our Space Your Place grant scheme is an initiative that offers a small amount of funding each year to help improve and enhance local communities in the North West of England.

General Grants

The Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust was founded in 1951. The Trust's General Grants supports small to medium-sized UK registered charities working in specific areas of the North West of England for the benefit of older people and assisting people who have fallen on hard times.

The funding is intended to support the following:

Grant Funding

The Zochonis Charitable Trust offers funding to local charitable institutions based and working within Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Lancashire, Manchester City and Trafford, with a particular emphasis on education and the welfare of children.Although the Trust places a particular emphasis on funding education and the welfare of children, it also provides grants to local charities in the following areas:

Small Grants Programme

The Westminster Foundation is an independent organisation representing the charitable activity of The Duke of Westminster, Grosvenor Family and Grosvenor businesses.

Grants are available towards projects that create opportunities for young people (up to 25 years old) and their families to have the resilience, skills and capacity to lead happy and healthy lives.

NVCO Trusted Charity Mark Level 1