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Arts, Culture & Heritage Grants in the United Kingdom

Tenders and grants across arts, culture and heritage — museum and gallery services, theatre and performing-arts venues, cultural facility construction, heritage building conservation and restoration, exhibitions, festivals and events, and creative-sector and arts-for-change programmes. Curated for cultural institutions, heritage conservators, creative agencies, event producers and arts organisations.

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Arts, Culture & Heritage Opportunities

Tenders and grants across arts, culture and heritage — museum and gallery services, theatre and performing-arts venues, cultural facility construction, heritage building conservation and restoration, exhibitions, festivals and events, and creative-sector and arts-for-change programmes. Curated for cultural institutions, heritage conservators, creative agencies, event producers and arts organisations.

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Open Heritage GB national-lottery-heritage-grants-250k-10m
United Kingdom $250,000 - $10,000,000

National Lottery Heritage Grants is our funding programme for all types of heritage projects in the UK. Use this guidance to apply for grants from £250,000 to £10m. You must first submit an Expression of Interest and, if you are successful, we will invite you to apply. Your application will usually go through two phases: a development phase of up to two years, enabling you work on your project proposal, and a delivery phase of no more than five years. If you think a two phase application is not right for your project, please contact your local office to discuss. Overview Is this the right programme for you? Is your organisation looking to care for and sustain heritage in the UK? Will your heritage project run for no more than five years (excluding the development phase)? Do you require ...

Open Heritage GB national-lottery-heritage-grants-10k-250k-0
United Kingdom $10,000 - $250,000

Page last updated: 17 September 2026 National Lottery Heritage Grants is our funding programme for all types of heritage projects in the UK. Use this guidance to apply for grants from £10,000 to £250,000. Overview Is this the right programme for you? Is your organisation looking to care for and sustain heritage in the UK? Will your heritage project run for no more than five years? Do you require a grant of between £10,000 and £250,000? Are you a not-for-profit organisation, a private owner of a heritage asset or a partnership? Does your project take into account our four investment principles? If you answered yes to these questions, then National Lottery Heritage Grants could be for you. Our investment principles Four investment principles guide all our grant decision making under our 1...

Open Heritage GB nature-networks-fund-round-six

Is this the right programme for you? Are you an organisation working with natural heritage in Wales? Do you need funding for planning or delivering a nature-based project? Does your project focus on improving wildlife and biodiversity in Wales in and around the network of protected sites? Do you require a grant of between £250,000 and £1million? If you answered yes to these questions, then the Nature Networks Fund is for you. Overview We’re delivering the Nature Networks Fund on behalf of the Welsh Government, in partnership with Natural Resources Wales. The aim of the Nature Networks Fund is to improve the resilience of Wales’ network of protected land, freshwater and marine sites. It is a key element of the delivery of the Welsh Government’s wider Nature Networks Programme, supporting...

Open GB heritage-revival-fund-1
United Kingdom $5,000 - $500,000

The Heritage Revival Fund will help communities across England rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings. It will do this by supporting community organisations to take ownership of, adapt and reuse the local heritage assets that matter to them, transforming them into thriving spaces that meet their needs. This programme is being delivered by the Architectural Heritage Fund in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Historic England, and forms part of the government’s wider £1.5 billion investment in arts and culture. The Heritage Revival Fund is open to charities and social enterprises in England seeking to take ownership of and/or adapt historic buildings for community uses. The programme will focus on regenerating historic buildings in town cent...

Open GB heritage-at-risk-capital-fund-1
United Kingdom $100,000 - $1,000,000

The Heritage at Risk Capital Fund is four year, £60 million fund to support the repair and conservation of historic buildings and sites at risk across England. It follows on from the successful £15 million of funding awarded through the Heritage at Risk Capital Fund in 2025/26. Under this fund, we can give grants for the conservation, repair and conversion of listed buildings of all grades, historic buildings in conservation areas, registered parks and gardens and scheduled monuments. Priority will be given to projects in areas of England with the highest level of deprivation and need for investment, and those that bring most community benefit. The fund is competitive, and not all applications will be successful. The full requirements of the fund are set out on our website, which provid...

Open GB people-and-research-1
United Kingdom $250 - $300,000 1 Apr 2027 (139 days left)

The People and Places scheme provides funding for research and engagement activities and to build skills and capacity in our historic environment at both national and regional levels. The research funding from this scheme helps us to know what our historic environment comprises, which aspects of it are the most signficant, how people value and interact with it, and what innovation in science and approach will help us to look after it for the future. The capacity building is targeted towards helping to reduce or avoid risk to the historic environment by building capacity and commitment of local communities to champion the conservation and enhancement of their own local historic environment. The promotion of best-practice standards and skills for the conservation, documentation, interpret...

Open GB community-hub-bursaries-1
United Kingdom $10 - $1,000 4 Jul 2027 (233 days left)

The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is led by The National Archives in partnership with Leeds Museums & Galleries, the National Library of Wales, and the Community Archives & Heritage Group.The programme aims to respond to the long-standing challenge of how “to make innovation and learning from community-facing projects more sustainable, transferable, and accessible” in the UK’s GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) and heritage sectors. Through a supportive funding structure and wider development programme, it aims to help communities and organisations share their work more widely and contribute to a growing body of knowledge that others can learn from and build upon.Our Bursaries scheme will offer grants of up to £1,000 for individuals seeking to grow their exp...

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