{"id":11429,"date":"2015-11-06T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=11429"},"modified":"2015-11-06T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:00:42","slug":"hlf-supporting-young-people-and-heritage-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11429","title":{"rendered":"HLF supporting young people and heritage skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is planning some changes to their current grant schemes to allow for greater flexibility, and also plan a new programme to support heritage skills among young people.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) writes:<br \/>\n<\/u>HLF&#8217;s Chair Sir Peter Luff has announced a series of measures to boost skills, support organisations through change and give young people a key role in shaping the UK\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Museum\u2019s Association annual conference in Birmingham, Sir Peter announced that the current Transition funding, Start Up grants and Catalyst small grants will be combined in a new programme, with an increased upper limit of more than \u00a3100,000 and more time for the money to be spent.<\/p>\n<p>This will help new projects get off the ground, build the capacity of existing organisations and help others make any structural changes necessary to meet future challenges.\u00a0 To support long-term financial resilience, there will be a new opportunity to apply for funding to build endowments, with enough flexibility to support small and large organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Peter also announced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a third round of the popular Skills for the Future programme. HLF has previously invested \u00a347million creating thousands of paid, practical training opportunities to bring new people into the workforce<\/li>\n<li>a new initiative offering substantial grants for projects that seek to make a real difference for young people<\/li>\n<li>recruitment of young people by HLF to help make decisions on applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These plans are at an early stage, with more details to be announced ahead of expected launch in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>View the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlf.org.uk\/about-us\/news-features\/new-measures-support-heritage-organisations-skills-and-young-people\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is planning some changes to their current grant schemes to allow for greater flexibility, and also plan a new programme to support heritage skills among young people. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) writes: HLF&#8217;s Chair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11430,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions\/11430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}