face your funding fears heritage & big lottery funds 220914

Face your Funding Fears

An insiders guide to funding

Megan Braithwaite, Heritage Lottery FundAdele Goodfellow, Big Lottery Fund

• Overview of funding – West Lothian Council

• How to approach funding applications

• Today’s funders & funding available

• Case studies

• Q&A

Hints and Tips

Top tips for apply for funding

1) Have a clear idea

• Work out what you want to do in your project

• Brainstorm

• Research funders – which funder fits you?

(not how do you fit with a funder)

Top tips for apply for funding

2) Get ‘project ready’

• Who will be applying?

(Are they in shape? – constitution & bank account)

• What is your timeframe, and are there deadlines?

• Bring together your team, don’t do it alone!

Top tips for apply for funding

3) Going beyond…

• Who else might you need on board to make the project a success?

• Council? Owners? Local groups?

• Who might be able to help you with the application/project?

• Talk to your community about input & benefits they’d like to see?

Top tips for apply for funding

4) Make the case for funding

• Identify the need or opportunity

(Why is the project needed? What opportunities are there?)

• How will your project make a difference?

• Remember - you know your project best

Top tips for apply for funding

5) The ‘what’

• What activities or events will you do in your project?

• Break the project down into manageable chunks

• Think about beginning, middle & end

• Make it fun & imaginative

Top tips for apply for funding

6) Money money money

• How much will the project cost?

• Get some quotes for work but

• Don’t sign anything yet!

(projects can look like they’ve started if you have)

• Double check – do you need partnership funding?

(Where might you get that from?)

Heritage Lottery Fund

• Wholly lottery funded, supporting all types of heritage projects

• Award grants over £3,000

• Over £600m for Scotland’s heritage since 1994

• West Lothian is currently a priority area

What is heritage?

• Historic buildings and sites

• Natural heritage (e.g. historic parks, biodiversity etc)

• Museums, archives and collections

• Industrial, transport & maritime heritage

• ‘Intangible’ heritage (e.g. oral history, language and dialect, place names, cultural traditions etc)

“Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today

and what we pass on to future generations.” UNESCO

Grant programmes

•Small

•£3,000 - £10,000

•Medium

•£10,000 - £100,000

•Large

•over £100,000 (two stage process)

Case study:Papermaking Oral History

• £7,300 Sharing Heritage programme

• Run by Volunteers at Local History Library with Linlithgow Bridge PS

• Research into papermaking history of West Lothian using archives, kite archaeology, visits to working papermills & oral history interviews with ex-mill workers

• Primary 6 created a dramatic interpretation for school assembly and prepared an exhibition, handling box & DVD

Big Lottery Fund

Small grants• £250 to £10,000 for up to 12 months

• One stage application process

• Community benefit

• No match funding required

• No closing dates

• Can have different grants for

different projects

Communities and Families Fund

Affinity TV CIC £8002

How the funders can help you

(we’re not that scary!)

Visit the websites:www.hlf.org.uk

www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

Come and chat to us at our stalls outside!

Get in touch (no question too daft!)megan.braithwaite@hlf.org.uk – 0131 240 1586

adele.goodfellow@biglotteryfund.org.uk

Read the programme guidance

Find us on twitter

@HLFScotland @BIGscotland

Any questions?