THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND
NEW FUND TO SAVE HISTORIC BUILDINGS AT RISK
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation is contributing £1million over five years to a new "Challenge Fund for Historic Buildings at Risk". The Foundation's contribution is being matched by English Heritage (www.english-heritage.org.uk) and the total fund of £2million will be managed by The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), an independent charity which has supported the restoration and beneficial new use of historic buildings since 1976.
The Challenge Fund is targeted at the most important buildings at risk in England, those listed at Grade I and Grade II* and which appear on the Heritage at Risk register, and the Fund is open only to registered charities. Support from the Fund will include capital grants, in some cases up to £200,000 per project, plus advice and guidance, and applicants will work with the AHF and English Heritage to develop sustainable and viable plans for buildings. One of the main assessment criteria of the Challenge Fund will be that any project to be supported must include a "viable and sustainable end use for the building, benefiting the wider community". It is expected that funding for projects from the Challenge Fund will act as "pump-priming" money, encouraging financial support from other public and charitable sector funding bodies.
ENGLISH HERITAGE ANNOUNCES THE FIRST GRANTS FROM THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND
The Coker Rope and Sail Trust in Somerset, George Street Chapel in Oldham and Clophill Heritage Trust in Bedfordshire have received a major boost to rescuing their historic buildings in the form of grants from the Challenge Fund, a £2 million fund comprising of £1 million from The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation matched by English Heritage and adminIstered by The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF).
The grants, announced on Monday 3 October 2011, are the first to be awarded from the Challenge Fund, managed by the AHF, an independent charity. The AHF will disburse grants of up to £200,000 each over the next five years to voluntary sector groups such as Building Preservation Trusts (BPTs), Civic Societies, Development and Groundwork Trusts who take on historic building rescues.
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The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation will channel all of its heritage grant giving through The Architectural Heritage Fund. All applications for support must be made to The Architectural Heritage Fund.
You can find guidelines on grant applications to The Architectural Heritage Fund’s Challenge Fund here.
Further details of the Fund and how to apply are available from the AHF website, www.ahfund.org.uk, or by contacting Ian Lush, Chief Executive of the AHF, by email: ian.lush@ahfund.org.uk
www.ahfund.org.uk
Please note that applications for Challenge Fund grants made directly to The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation will not be considered.