We give grants towards the repair and conservation of listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered parks and gardens. This includes project development actions which enable repair or improved future management.
Our grants under this scheme are intended to reduce the risk faced by some of the most significant historic sites in England, as shown on the Heritage at Risk Register. We focus our grants on those sites which are most in need of repair and where, without our grant, a project would not be able to go ahead.
This scheme was formerly called Grants for Historic Buildings, Monuments and Designed Landscapes.
Location England
Funding organisation Historic England
Who can apply Personal / Individual, Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £5,000 to £500,000
Total size of grant scheme £9 million
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The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) has been awarding grants to safeguard the UK’s most important heritage since 1980. As a fund of last resort, NHMF has helped save thousands of our most-loved treasures from being lost forever. Taken together, these treasures form a UK-wide memorial in honour of those who have given their lives to the country. NHMF can help buy anything which is of outstanding importance to the national heritage and either at risk or of memorial character. For example, works of fine or decorative art, museum collections, archives, manuscripts, items of transport and industrial history or historic buildings and land.
Location National
Funding organisation National Heritage Memorial Fund
Who can apply Public Sector, Non-profit
How much you can get From N/A to N/A
Total size of grant scheme N/A
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The Heritage Protection Commissions provides funding for strategic research and to build skills and capacity in our historic environment. The research funding from this scheme helps us to know what our historic environment comprises, which aspects of it are the most significant, how people value and interact with it, and what innovations in science and approach will help us to look after it for the future. The capacity building is targeted towards helping to reduce or avoid risk to the historic environment by building the capacity and commitment of local communities to champion the conservation and enhancement of their own local historic environment.
Location England
Funding organisation Historic England
Who can apply Personal / Individual, Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £100 to £300,000
Total size of grant scheme £4.5 million
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The National Archives Skills Bursaries provide grants of up to £1000 per person, to archivists and heritage professionals, to support access to training and development opportunities.
In particular, we want to provide funding that will confront the challenges of today: preserving and sharing the digital record, reducing our environmental impact and adapting to climate change, and helping the archives sector become more diverse, equitable and inclusive.
To support archivists in building the skills needed for the future, The National Archives is delighted to be offering bursaries for the first time, for archivists seeking to access training, career professional development or mentoring that would not usually be available in their own organisational development programmes.
Location England, Wales
Funding organisation The National Archives
Who can apply Personal / Individual, Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £1 to £1,000
Total size of grant scheme £20,000
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The Waking Watch Replacement Fund 2023, launched in May 2023, is a new £18.6 million fund to install alarms and replace costly Waking Watch measures in all residential buildings in England where a Waking Watch is currently in place.
The new fund builds on the progress made by the initial Waking Watch Relief Fund and the Waking Watch Replacement Fund 2022. The additional funding will incentivise the installation of alarms and protect more residents in more buildings pending their full remediation or the provision of long-term mitigation measures.
Location England
Funding organisation Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Who can apply Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £1 to £18.6 million
Total size of grant scheme £18.6 million
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The HS2 Woodland Fund re-opened on Tuesday 30 May 2023 for applications supporting projects that create and restore woodland along the High Speed Two (HS2) Phase One route.
£3.25m is available to support woodland creation and the restoration of plantations of ancient woodland sites (PAWS). First launched in November 2017 and managed by the Forestry Commission on behalf of HS2 Ltd, the fund is available for sites located up to 25 miles from phase one of the route from London to the West Midlands.
The Woodland Creation aspect of the fund will now be available under the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO).
Location England, South East England, Midlands
Funding organisation High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd / Forestry Commission
Who can apply Personal / Individual, Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £1 to £300,000
Total size of grant scheme £3.25 million
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This round will trial replacement engines and the modification of engines in commercial fishing vessels, to support the modernisation of the UK fleet.
Location National
Funding organisation Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Who can apply Personal / Individual, Private Sector
How much you can get From £1 to £160,000
Total size of grant scheme £2 million
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Quick-response funds of up to £10000 for timely projects on:
- unexpected or important recent discoveries
- significantly heightened awareness of the social cultural or economic impacts
- responding to changing national curricula or government policy related to STFC science technology or facilities duration up to six months.
Location National
Funding organisation Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Who can apply Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £1 to £10,000
Total size of grant scheme £10,000
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Apply for funding to develop effective strategies to tackle overweight and obesity.
‘Tackling obesity’ is open to applications submitted to the Population and Systems Medicine Board.
You should apply through the existing funding opportunity most relevant to your science area and career stage.
Location National
Funding organisation Medical Research Council (MRC)
Who can apply Public Sector, Non-profit, Private Sector
How much you can get From £1 to £1 million
Total size of grant scheme £1 million
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