Heritage Lottery Fund increase in funding from April 2012
6 February 2012
The heritage share of good cause income will increase to 20% in April 2012. This and an increase in National Lottery ticket sales means that the Heritage Lottery Fund grant budget for new awards 2012-2013 has been increased to £375m. This is an increase of £120m from the 2011-2012 budget.
More detail and finalised budgets for 2012-2013 will be announced "in the spring".
Is applying to Your Heritage or Young Roots part of your group's fundraising plan? The maximum grant available for both programmes is increasing from April 2012 and Young Roots projects will be able to run for up to 2 years. Details from Heritage Lottery Fund:
"Other changes
Further detail about our new strategic plan from 2013 onwards will be announced in May 2012. However, HLF will be introducing a number of changes to programmes which respond to customer feedback and help manage our business even more effectively, from April 2012:
- Committees will take local decisions on more Heritage Grants applications – up to the value of £2m (currently £1m).
- The upper limit for Your Heritage grants will be increased to £100,000 (from £50,000).
- The upper limit for Young Roots grants will be increased to £50,000 (from £25,000). It will also support projects engaging a wider age range of young people (from 11 – 25 years old) and the maximum length of a project will be increased to two years.
- We will introduce single stage Heritage Grants applications by exception when there is an urgent external deadline, for example on partnership funding."
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