A reminder of the grants still available from AIM: Tackling Inequalities Hallmarks Grants (grants of up to £10,000 for accredited museums) Express your interest for AIM Biffa Award History Makers (receive up to £75,000 to tell the story of your historical figure – until 14 December) AIM Pilgrim …
‘Steps to Sustainability’ – Open For Applications
This National Lottery Heritage Fund opportunity will provide a pathway for 60 heritage organisations across the UK to be ambitious, forward-thinking and deliver exciting new projects. Participants will bring a business idea to the programme which they will have the opportunity to develop throughout the duration of …
Thriving Communities Fund
Arts Council England (ACE), the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) and partners have teamed up to launch a new £1.4m fund, which is open to heritage organisations. The Fund is designed to increase social connectedness, and help communities cope with the impact of COVID-19. …
National Lottery Grants for Heritage
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has resumed accepting small and medium project funding applications for it’s Grants for Heritage programme and launched an interest-free loans pilot. The project funding – for grants between £3,000 to £100,000 – will provide financial assistance for organisations working with …
Here For Culture
DCMS has brought together a range of innovative arts, culture, heritage and film resources and events that can be experienced from home as part of the #HereForCulture campaign.
Environment
The Prime Minister has unveiled the Government’s 10-point plan for a £12bn ‘green industrial revolution’, which aims to create and support up to 250,000 British jobs. The plan includes an £80 million fund for green jobs and new national parks to ‘kick start’ the nation’s green recovery.
Priorities for the Sector
We recently shared Backing the Bedrock, outlining five fiscal and funding priorities for the heritage sector ahead of the Spending Review. Individual organisations also set out priorities for specific parts of the sector, such as the National Trust [Alliance member] with their Six asks of the Government’s …
New Green Book for 2020
HM Treasury has also published its final report of the 2020 Green Book Review. This follows an action from Budget 2020 to review the Green Book to ensure that “investment spreads across the UK” to align with the Government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda. The document that sets …
National Infrastructure Strategy
HM Treasury has published a new National Infrastructure Strategy, setting out long-term plans to transform the UK infrastructure in line with the Governments wider agendas.
Spending Review
Yesterday, the Chancellor set out details for the Spending Review 2020. His full speech is available here, the full set of documents can be found here. Billions of pounds have been allocated to COVID-19 recovery for next year across different government departments. The Department for Culture, Media …
The H Factor
The Heritage Alliance’s ‘Heritage, Health and Wellbeing’ report was featured in a blog by Heritage Open Days [Alliance member], highlighting the benfits the Heritage can deliver – the H factor! You can read the blog, which also highlights two RSA reports, h