The IHBC has welcomed the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) launch of its new funding programme ‘ Resilient Heritage’, which will support organisations as they build their capacity and undertake strategic change.
IHBC Chair James Caird said: ‘I’m delighted to be able to welcome this timely initiative. It recognises just how important infrastructure support is to the heritage sector, not least the smaller specialist bodies such as the IHBC whose members continue to experience huge pressure on the ground as conservation planning, like planning itself, faces challenging times.’
‘With rapid change being the order of the day in all our operating environments, it is especially important that key bodies such as the HLF, as well as national heritage agencies and Trusts, recognise the value of support as well as partnership, as these organisations evolve to respond to current circumstances’.
HLF writes:
Resilient Heritage grants of £3,000-£250,000 can help you to strengthen your organisation, and build the capacity of your staff and volunteers to better manage heritage in the long term.
This programme is available to organisations in the UK who want to build their capacity or achieve strategic change to improve the management of heritage. Grants can fund activities to help you acquire new skills or knowledge, or new models of governance, leadership and business to put your organisation in a better position for the future. Organisations in the early stages of planning their activities may also apply.
Whether you’re facing challenges around income and fundraising, or preparing to take on new forms of investment, such as social investment, Resilient Heritage can support these processes.
Join the HLF on Thursday 4 August for a live chat in our Online Community where we’ll answer all the resilience application and assessment questions we can fit in an hour.
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