English Heritage has a number of grant schemes designed to help with the protection and promotion of the Historic Environment. These are listed below.
Local Authorities - Area Partnership Funding
English Heritage is currently looking at how best deliver support to Local Planning Authorities for area partnerships. This review is being conducted with our partners and stakeholders within the sector and we hope to be able to publish how we move forward in the near future.
Local Authority Grants to Underwrite Urgent Works Notices
This grant scheme is designed to encourage and support local authorities in the use of their statutory powers to ensure that work urgently necessary for the preservation of a vacant or partly occupied listed building is undertaken.
Acquisition Grants for Local Authorities
This grant scheme focuses on help to local authorities to underwrite the cost of serving a Repairs Notice under sections 47, 48 and 52 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 on historic buildings which have fallen into a serious and dangerous state of decay.
Local Authority Grants for Conservation Staff
English Heritage can consider help to establish permanent specialist conservation posts in local planning authorities currently lacking them, or where provision is greatly inadequate in relation to heritage responsibilities.
Repair Grants for Places of Worship
This scheme is jointly funded by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund and gives grants for urgent repairs to listed buildings which are in regular use as public places of worship.
Cathedral Repairs
This scheme provides funding to Church of England and Roman Catholic cathedrals which are listed grade I or II* and / or are situated within a conservation area.
Historic Buildings, Monuments & Designed Landscapes
This scheme covers grants for the repair and conservation of some of England’s most significant historic buildings, monuments and designed landscapes. Grants are primarily offered for urgent repairs or other work required within two years to prevent loss or damage to important architectural, archaeological or landscape features.
War Memorials
English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation, in association with the War Memorials Trust, are providing grants for the repair and conservation of free-standing war memorials in England. These grants are intended to help those who are responsible for the upkeep of war memorials.
Capacity Building for the Voluntary Sector
The programme provides funding to national and local voluntary organisations for projects which promote the conservation, understanding and enjoyment of the historic environment.
Historic Environment Enabling Programme
The Historic Environment Enabling Programme is the national strategic budget through which English Heritage commissions the research needed for evidence-based policy and funds nationally-important initiatives which underpin its lead role for the Historic Environment in England.
Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund
The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) was introduced by Government in April 2002 to provide funding to tackle the environmental impacts of aggregates extraction. English Heritage distributes funding of behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for projects which aim to reduce the impact of aggregates extraction upon the Historic Environment.
Further information and application packs are avaliable on the English Heritage website under Grants.
Contacts
Most grants are administered by English Heritage regional teams and they should be contacted in the first instance, where appropriate.
They can help you with an initial enquiry, help you to understand whether your project will be a priority for support and guide you through the application process.
London
Covering: Greater London.
English Heritage
1 Waterhouse Square
138-142 Holborn
London
EC1N 2ST
Telephone 020 7973 3000
Fax 020 7973 3001
E-mail: london@english-heritage.org.uk
South East
Covering: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex.
English Heritage
Eastgate Court
195-205 High Street
Guildford
GU1 3EH
Telephone 01483 252000
Fax 01483 252001
E-mail: southeast@english-heritage.org.uk
South West
Covering: Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Isles of Scilly, Somerset, Wiltshire.
English Heritage
29 Queen Square
Bristol
BS1 4ND
Telephone 0117 975 0700
Fax 0117 975 0701
E-mail: southwest@english-heritage.org.uk
East of England
Covering: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk.
English Heritage
Brooklands
24 Brooklands Avenue
Cambridge
CB2 2BU
Telephone 01223 582700
Fax 01223 582701
E-mail: eastofengland@english-heritage.org.uk
East Midlands
Covering: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland.
English Heritage
44 Derngate
Northampton
NN1 1UH
Telephone 01604 735400
Fax 01604 735401
E-mail: eastmidlands@english-heritage.org.uk
West Midlands
Covering: Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire.
English Heritage
112 Colmore Row
Birmingham
B3 3AG
Telephone 0121 625 6820
Fax 0121 625 6821
E-mail: westmidlands@english-heritage.org.uk
North West
Covering: Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside.
English Heritage
Suites 3.3 & 3.4 Canada House
3 Chepstow Street
Manchester
M1 5FW
Telephone 0161 242 1400
Fax 0161 242 1401
E-mail: northwest@english-heritage.org.uk
Yorkshire
Covering: East Riding of Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire.
English Heritage
37 Tanner Row
York
YO1 6WP
Telephone 01904 601 901
Fax 01904 601 999
E-mail: yorkshire@english-heritage.org.uk
North East
Covering: Co. Durham, Northumberland, Tees Valley, Tyne & Wear.
English Heritage
Bessie Surtees House
41–44 Sandhill
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3JF
Telephone 0191 269 1200
Fax 0191 261 1130
E-mail: northeast@english-heritage.org.uk
For general grant enquiries please contact: grants@english-heritage.org.uk
