The Heritage Lottery Fund

Making a positive and lasting difference for heritage and people

Ian MorrisonHead of Historic Environment Conservation

• Conserve the UK’s diverse heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy

• Help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about their heritage

• Help people to learn about their own and other people’s heritage

Our strategic aims are:

Lottery funding context for heritage

• Strong Lottery ticket sales

• HLF receives 20% ‘good causes’ income from 2012

• HLF grants budget of £300m p.a. from 2012-2013 onwards

Over £543 million to more than 4,500 projects supporting around 3,700 faith-related sites

St Martin in the Fields, London

HLF Grant of £14 million

Church of St Andrew, South Wanborough in Hampshire

HLF grant of £45,000 (42%)

Burnett’s Hill Chapel, PembrokeshireHLF grant of £52,000 (63%)

St Peter’s Church, EalingGrant awarded £8,750 (99%)

Caring for God’s Acre

HLF grant of £23,000

Volunteer Training: Maintenance of Places of Worship -Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

Repair grants for Places of Worship

• 1st joint scheme introduced in 1996

• Current RPOW scheme launched in 2002

• 2,300 places of worship have benefitted from £189m

• 2011/12 budget:– £25m for England– £3m for rest of UK

Achievements

• Closures of Anglican churches have fallen by two-thirds

• EH survey of 100 recipients– 30% building would

have closed– 76% repairs would not

have been undertaken– 85% building used more

effectively

St Chad's Farndon, Chester

• Grade II* with parts of the tower dating from the 1340s; largely rebuilt following destruction in the Civil War

• Grant of £35,000 towards total costs of £62,448

• Grant mainly for repairs to the tower but also includes works to drains and to the 17th century 'Civil War' window

Administration of RPOW• Handled by HLF in Wales, NI and Scotland,

with expert advice from:– Cadw – Historic Scotland

• English Heritage administers the scheme in England

• As of 2010, HLF is sole funder of RPOW in Wales, Northern Ireland and England

• Historic Scotland continue to co-fund the scheme

Grant applications and awards

• c.500 applications each year

• 40 – 50% success rate

• 2010/11: 487 applications (£58.5m)

– England, 418 (£55.3m)– Wales, 39 (£2.4m)– Scotland, 16 (£1.7m)– Northern Ireland, 14 (£1m)

Shaping the future

Agreement with priorities for targeted programmes

Q21a To what extent do you agree or disagree that the following continue to be the right priorities for our targeted programmes? (base=932)

35%

32%

28%

25%

31% 25%

37%

35%

35%

35% 14%

17%

16%

20%

18% 10%

6%

8%

6%

7%

3%

5%

3%

2%

2%

3%

3%

4%

3%

5%

5%

5%

7%

6%

6%

Places of Worship

Parks for People

Townscape HeritageInitiative

Landscape Partnerships

Young People

Strongly agree Tend to agreeNeither agree or disagree Tend to disagreeStrongly disagree No opinionDon't know

Views on the proposals for the Places of Worship programme

Q25: What are your thoughts on our proposals for supporting places of worship? How could they be improved? (all mentioned by more than 5%) (base=587)

6%

9%

11%

15%

15%

45%

Encourage more participation and learning

Funding is needed for educating and allowing access to history / funding focus elsewhere

A bigger priority (because of repairs need)

Support proposals / appropriate church preservation vital / important

Preserve heritage / target most noteworthy places / focus effort

A bigger priority (because of community use benefits) / partnerships / sustainability /

maintainance

“Although repair, restoration and conservation of the historic fabric and fittings of places of worship must be a priority, there should be a requirement that greater community use is explored and therefore provision made to increase facilities. As mentioned above if this section was renamed something such as 'historic religious buildings' it may get greater public support.”

(Trustee, Historic Buildings and Monuments, Community/ Voluntary)

“Preserving significant buildings while increasing their community use and involvement is an excellent idea. Applications should be able to demonstrate that buildings are not just used once a week, but provide a resource for the local community.”

(Head of Heritage Services, Local Authority)

Next steps

• New strategy for 2013-2019 published April 2012

• Customer information on changes to policies and programmes available from April 2012

• Autumn and winter 2012 – new programmes open to applications

• April 2013 – first awards under the new programmes

Repair Grants for Places of Worship 2013-19

Conservation focused

Allowance for modest new works/facilities

Demonstrate broadening of community use OR engagement

Greater focus on financial sustainability

Heritage Lottery Fund7 Holbein PlaceLondon SW1W 8NR

Telephone: 020 7591 6000Textphone: 020 7591 6255

www.hlf.org.uk