Strategic initiatives
We want to create the greatest impact and benefit from our funding for the UK’s heritage.
Our strategic initiatives are a way for us to address long-standing heritage issues at scale, support coordinated cross-territory approaches and accelerate new ideas and innovations.
Over the life of our 10-year strategy, Heritage 2033, we expect to deliver various initiatives. The ones we’re working on right now include:
Heritage in need and other opportunities and emergencies
We remain committed to flexibility and responding swiftly when required. This could mean supporting acquisitions of exceptional heritage, marking significant events or supporting heritage areas and organisations dealing with an unforeseen emergency.
We’re also exploring opportunities for targeted funding for heritage that is at risk and in need of conservation. Alongside funding discrete projects, we want to support organisations to build capacity, develop approaches to project planning and diversify income streams.
Decision-making
Our approach to making decisions on strategic initiatives is the same as our processes under the National Lottery Heritage Grants programme.
For grants of less than £250,000, decisions are made on a monthly basis by the senior investment or engagement staff of your nation or area. For grants above £250,000, decisions are made on a quarterly basis by the committee of your nation or area or by our Board of Trustees.
We may vary our decision-making process for specific initiatives, but we will update our website when this happens.
More to come
Our teams are working hard to develop these initiatives and opportunities and we’ll share further details as we have them.
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