Anna JarvisFirst World War Programme Manager

Heritage Lottery Fund

Buckinghamshire, Berkshire & Oxfordshire WW1 Networking Event

19 September 2013

Heritage Lottery Fund and the First World War Centenary

•Over £28million awarded to 119 projects since April 2010

•Funding available throughout the Centenary

Key points for our programmes:

• HLF funds projects;

• All projects must have a heritage focus;

• All projects must include plans and costs.

‘A lasting difference for heritage and people’

We will achieve this through our projects delivering a broad range of Outcomes. These come under 3 headings:

What difference will your project make for -

• heritage• people

• communities

What difference will your project make for heritage?

With HLF investment, heritage will be:

• Better managed

• In better condition

• Better interpreted and explained

• Identified and/or recorded

With HLF investment, people will have:

• Learnt about heritage

• Developed skills

• Changed their attitudes and/or behaviour

• Had an enjoyable experience

• Volunteered time

What difference will your project make for people?

With HLF investment:

• Environmental impacts will be reduced

• More people and a wider range of people will have engaged with heritage

• Organisations will be more resilient

• Local economies will be boosted

• Local areas/communities will be a better place to live, work or visit

What difference will your project make for communities?

• The outcome we value the most is that ‘people will have learnt about heritage.’

• We describe this as a ‘weighted outcome.’

• This outcome is weighted for most programmes

Heritage of the First World War

• Local places• Objects, photographs, documents and

newspapers

• Individuals and communities affected by the war

• Buildings and structures – e.g. factories and hospitals

• War memorials• Recordings of memories• Memories of people affected by the war

after it happened• Art, literature, music, theatre, film and

popular culture• Anything created during or since the war

that shows its impact on the UK and people currently living here

Funding for First World War projects

First World War: then and nowGrants between £3,000 and £10,000

Our HeritageGrants between £10,000 and £100,000

Heritage GrantsGrants over £100,000

Young RootsGrants between £10,000 and £50,000

First World War: then and now

• Grants of £3,000 - £10,000

• For communities to explore, conserve and share their First World War heritage

• No application deadline

• Decision in 8 weeks

• Short application form

• Must achieve one outcome for people

Our Heritage

• Grants of £10,000 - £100,000

• For any project that relates to heritage

• No application deadline

• Decision in 8 weeks

• Must achieve 2 outcomes (one for heritage and one for people)

• Grants of £10,000 to £50,000, for up to 2 years

• Delivered through partnerships of heritage and youth organisations

• Young people should learn about heritage and gain new skills or opportunities

• Young people should lead activities and share their learning with others

• Same short process as Our Heritage

Young RootsProjects delivered by 11–25 year olds

Heritage Grants

•Grants of more than £100,000

•For any project that relates to heritage

•Two-round application process

•3 months assessment at each round

•Development funding and mentoring support available

The Great War at Haslemere Museum

• Young Roots project

• Young people research using museum’s collections

• Share findings through an exhibition

• Young people gain skills

• Grant: £17,900

Restoration of war memorials in Spa gardens, Ripon

• Restored 2 Grade II memorials

• Volunteers produced a leaflet

• A photographic report and maintenance plan was produced

• Grant: £9,200

A First World War memorial at Spa Gardens, Ripon

Leicester in the First World War

• 20 adults researched the impact of the First World War on Leicester

• Stories included those of a Ghurkha, conscientious objectors and suffragettes

• Stories were shared through exhibitions and workshops with schools

• Grant: £17,800

Participants researching at the County Record Office

Revealing the memorial bells

• The bells were cleaned and restored, then rededicated

• Local people learned to play the bells and researched the names

• The research findings are online

• Grant: £40,800

Young people playing the restored bells

Huddersfield Rugby League: a lasting legacy

• Volunteers are researching the impact of the war on their rugby club

• The stories will be shared through an exhibition, a book, a heritage trail and online

• Grant: £114,500

Year 6 pupils interview one of the Huddersfield Giants Rugby League Football Club

The Accrington Pals

• Young people found out about the history of the Lancashire battalion

• They created a film about what happened to the battalion during the war, and the impact on their families

• Grant: £11,200

Young people filming in Accrington

Hermitage Hexham: Morant family collection

• Partnership between two record offices and museum

• Acquisition of Morant family papers – personal and history of Durham Light Infantry

• Grant: £19,900Young people filming in Accrington

Crime on the Home Front

• Made an archive of material focused on FWW policing accessible through digitisation and exhibition

• Worked with a range of people to interpret material including a community play and smartphone app

• Grant: £40,800

Young people filming in Accrington

www.hlf.org.uk/FirstWorldWar

HLF project enquiry service

• Initial heritage idea

• Read HLF’s guidance and project examples

• Submit a project enquiry form online at www.hlf.org.uk

• Get a response within 10 working days

• Develop idea

• Apply

South East Development Team

Sarah Wicks Graeme McKirdy

Sandra Martin

southeastengland@hlf.org.uk

HLF South East England - 020 7591 6171