{"id":26701,"date":"2020-06-21T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=26701"},"modified":"2020-06-21T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T15:36:43","slug":"ihbcs-covid-19-signpost-108-second-historic-england-covid-19-grant-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=26701","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s COVID-19 signpost 108: Second Historic England COVID-19 grant scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"text-col content\">\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26702\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HE_Covid_Fund_200620.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/>Historic England has launched a second emergency fund to support the heritage sector recovery from the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->Historic England writes:<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"Covid-19 Emergency Heritage at Risk Response Fund\" href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/coronavirus\/covid-19-har-fund\/\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/document\/0163ab489d5945de819ea7dc68f428a9\" data-anchor=\"#\">fund<\/a>, which will be up to \u00a33 million, will award grants to those who care for some of England\u2019s most significant historic sites to help fund urgent maintenance, repairs and investigations where our support is most needed. The business generated will help heritage specialists, whose livelihoods have been severely affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"text-col content\">\n<p>Grants of up to \u00a325,000 will be offered to fix urgent problems at locally-cherished historic buildings and sites which are normally visited by the public, so that they can re-open as quickly as possible, subject to Covid-19 restrictions, and thrive once again. The funding can be used to address problems such as damaged roofs, masonry and windows, to hire scaffolding to prevent structural collapse, or commission surveys necessary to inform urgent repairs&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.This is the second emergency fund from Historic England in response to Covid-19 and comes soon after a \u00a31.8 million fund that is supporting 70 organisations to weather the crisis and aid recovery. Both funds are designed to complement the measures already put in place by the Government, as well as the National Lottery Heritage Fund\u2019s recently announced \u00a350 million emergency fund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/whats-new\/news\/announcement-covid-19-heritage-at-risk-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic England has launched a second emergency fund to support the heritage sector recovery from the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701","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=26701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26703,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701\/revisions\/26703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}