Welcome to the Heritage Funding Directory

The Heritage Funding Directory is a comprehensive guide to sources of financial support (and more) for anyone seeking to undertake creative projects connected with the UK’s heritage.

It includes details of the majority of substantive sources of funding from central and local government, non-governmental agencies and grant-making trusts which specialise in supporting heritage projects, as well as many which provide such funding within a wider remit.

As well as detailing sources of grants, the Directory also lists bodies offering loans, awards, scholarships, training, funding advice, education, interpretation and publication, and other “in kind” resources.
Categories of heritage include the countryside, historic landscapes, parks, gardens, churchyards and cemeteries; industrial, transport and maritime heritage; archives, collections, spoken history; historic churches and other buildings; museums and gallery collections; land and maritime archaeology; environmental; heritage skills and conservation.
Each entry includes a detailed descriptions of the type of project which the funding source is willing to support, together with contact details for where you can go to seek further information. Where appropriate, a direct link is provided to the source’s own website.

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To avoid unnecessary duplication, Heritage Link’s Heritage Funding Directory includes details of funding sources which cover historic buildings if they are part of a wider heritage project/context. If you are specifically searching for funding for work on historic buildings, you are recommended to go directly to the Architectural Heritage Fund’s dedicated Funds for Historic Buildings (FFHB) website.

If you spot any errors or omissions, we would be grateful if you would please bring them to the attention of the webmaster at: mail@heritagelink.org.uk. Thank you.

Heritage Link gratefully acknowledges the support of the Leche Trust towards the maintenance of the Heritage Funding Directory website.