The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is likely to provide match funding for development projects if organisations lose income from other sources and the project is at risk of collapsing.
In light of cuts such as the scrapping of the nine regional development agencies (RDAs), the HLF is also urging applicants to ask for more cash for projects at the outset. The HLF offers funding of up to 75 per cent, but said projects tended to ask it to contribute less than 40 per cent.
The HLF will increase its allocation for major projects from £20m per annum to £30m from 2011. In an aim to offer “greater flexibility”, the second-round submission deadline has been removed with immediate effect, which the HLF said would give recipients the opportunity to secure more financial support.
An HLF spokeswoman said the organisation would do what it could to help projects that lose funding from other sources.
Sources said the HLF had indicated it would even match funding that had been withdrawn from elsewhere, although this would be looked at on a case-by-case basis.
Bill Ferris, chief executive of Historic Dockyard Chatham, said: “I support a more flexible approach. If heritage is as important to the government as it says, then it can’t chop funding from the likes of RDAs and not expect someone else to pick up the damage – and HLF is in the best position to make quick judgements.”
Image: Historic Dockyard Chatham, which received HLF funding to redevelop the No.1 Smithery
In light of cuts such as the scrapping of the nine regional development agencies (RDAs), the HLF is also urging applicants to ask for more cash for projects at the outset. The HLF offers funding of up to 75 per cent, but said projects tended to ask it to contribute less than 40 per cent.
The HLF will increase its allocation for major projects from £20m per annum to £30m from 2011. In an aim to offer “greater flexibility”, the second-round submission deadline has been removed with immediate effect, which the HLF said would give recipients the opportunity to secure more financial support.
An HLF spokeswoman said the organisation would do what it could to help projects that lose funding from other sources.
Sources said the HLF had indicated it would even match funding that had been withdrawn from elsewhere, although this would be looked at on a case-by-case basis.
Bill Ferris, chief executive of Historic Dockyard Chatham, said: “I support a more flexible approach. If heritage is as important to the government as it says, then it can’t chop funding from the likes of RDAs and not expect someone else to pick up the damage – and HLF is in the best position to make quick judgements.”
Image: Historic Dockyard Chatham, which received HLF funding to redevelop the No.1 Smithery