# HLF to provide £8 million to help build heritage organisations’ resilience

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/08/05/hlf-provide-8m-help-build-heritage-organisations-resilience/
- Published: 2016-08-05T13:02:15+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Heritage organisations and partnerships can now apply to a new £8 million annual
investment programme from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help them become more resilient.**

They can apply for Resilient Heritage grants of **between £3,000 and £250,000** 
to help them manage heritage for the long term.

The funding will help organisations to:

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 * Acquire new skills or knowledge to help build fundraising capacity or open up
   new income streams
 * Explore new business operating models or introduce new approaches to governance
   and leadership
 * Identify opportunities to reduce negative environmental impacts and make efficiency
   savings
 * Create partnerships between heritage organisations to provide training and capacity
   building
 * Prepare to take on new responsibility for heritage, such as through community
   asset transfer

The Resilient Heritage funding builds on HLF’s Catalyst, Transition and Start Up
Grant programmes. Catalyst, launched in 2012 in partnership with the Department 
for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England, was designed to help heritage
organisations develop fundraising skills to build financial independence as they
faced reduced public funding.

Ros Kerslake, HLF Chief Executive, said:

> “Catalyst showed us there is an appetite from heritage organisations to adapt 
> and grow in order to build a firm financial footing.  Resilient Heritage brings
> together all that we have learnt, providing a tailored package of support that
> responds to the individual needs of organisations so they can not only survive
> in these challenging financial times, but thrive.”

## How resilient is your heritage organisation?

![Resilient Heritage Strength Tracker](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2016/
08/resilient-heritage-strength-checker.jpg)

HLF has introduced a new online [Resilient Heritage strength checker](http://www.resilientheritagechecker.org.uk/)
to help heritage organisations better establish their current resilience. It helps
identify areas of strength and weakness.

There are currently **no application deadlines** for Resilient Heritage. Applications
will be assessed within eight weeks and then discussed at a monthly advisory meeting
at applicants’ local Heritage Lottery Fund office.

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