Anna Jarvis First World War Programme Manager Heritage Lottery Fund

2. Anna Jarvis
First World War Programme Manager
Heritage Lottery Fund
Buckinghamshire, Berkshire & Oxfordshire WW1
Networking Event
19 September 2013

3. Heritage Lottery Fund
and the First World
War Centenary
•Over £28million
awarded to 119 projects
since April 2010
•Funding available
throughout the
Centenary

4. Key points for our
programmes:
• HLF funds projects;
• All projects must have a
heritage focus;
• All projects must include
plans and costs.

5. ‘A lasting difference for heritage and people’
We will achieve this through our projects delivering a broad range of
Outcomes. These come under 3 headings:
What difference will your project make for -
• heritage
• people
• communities

6. What difference will your project make for heritage?
With HLF investment, heritage will be:
• Better managed
• In better condition
• Better interpreted and explained
• Identified and/or recorded

7. With HLF investment, people will
have:
• Learnt about heritage
• Developed skills
• Changed their attitudes and/or
behaviour
• Had an enjoyable experience
• Volunteered time
What difference will your project make for people?

8. With HLF investment:
• Environmental impacts will be
reduced
• More people and a wider range
of people will have engaged
with heritage
• Organisations will be more
resilient
• Local economies will be
boosted
• Local areas/communities will
be a better place to live, work
or visit
What difference will your project make for
communities?

9. • The outcome we value
the most is that ‘people
will have learnt about
heritage.’
• We describe this as a
‘weighted outcome.’
• This outcome is
weighted for most
programmes

10. Heritage of the First World
War
• Local places
• Objects, photographs, documents and
newspapers
• Individuals and communities affected by
the war
• Buildings and structures – e.g. factories
and hospitals
• War memorials
• Recordings of memories
• Memories of people affected by the war
after it happened
• Art, literature, music, theatre, film and
popular culture
• Anything created during or since the war
that shows its impact on the UK and
people currently living here

11. Funding for First
World War projects
First World War: then
and now
Grants between £3,000 and £10,000
Our Heritage
Grants between £10,000 and
£100,000
Heritage Grants
Grants over £100,000
Young Roots
Grants between £10,000 and
£50,000

12. First World War: then and
now
• Grants of £3,000 - £10,000
• For communities to
explore, conserve and
share their First World War
heritage
• No application deadline
• Decision in 8 weeks
• Short application form
• Must achieve one outcome
for people

13. Our Heritage
• Grants of £10,000 - £100,000
• For any project that relates to
heritage
• No application deadline
• Decision in 8 weeks
• Must achieve 2 outcomes
(one for heritage and one for
people)

14. • Grants of £10,000 to £50,000, for up
to 2 years
• Delivered through partnerships of
heritage and youth organisations
• Young people should learn about
heritage and gain new skills or
opportunities
• Young people should lead activities
and share their learning with others
• Same short process as Our Heritage
Young Roots
Projects delivered by 11–25 year olds

15. Heritage Grants
•Grants of more than £100,000
•For any project that relates to
heritage
•Two-round application process
•3 months assessment at each
round
•Development funding and
mentoring support available

16. The Great War at
Haslemere Museum
• Young Roots project
• Young people
research using
museum’s collections
• Share findings through
an exhibition
• Young people gain
skills
• Grant: £17,900

17. Restoration of war memorials in Spa gardens,
Ripon
• Restored 2 Grade II
memorials
• Volunteers produced a
leaflet
• A photographic report and
maintenance plan was
produced
• Grant: £9,200
A First World War memorial at
Spa Gardens, Ripon

18. Leicester in the First World War
• 20 adults researched the
impact of the First World War
on Leicester
• Stories included those of a
Ghurkha, conscientious
objectors and suffragettes
• Stories were shared through
exhibitions and workshops with
schools
• Grant: £17,800
Participants researching at the
County Record Office

19. Revealing the memorial bells
• The bells were cleaned
and restored, then
rededicated
• Local people learned to
play the bells and
researched the names
• The research findings
are online
• Grant: £40,800
Young people playing the restored bells

20. Huddersfield Rugby League: a lasting legacy
• Volunteers are
researching the
impact of the war
on their rugby club
• The stories will be
shared through an
exhibition, a book, a
heritage trail and
online
• Grant: £114,500
Year 6 pupils interview one of the
Huddersfield Giants Rugby League Football
Club

21. The Accrington Pals
• Young people found
out about the history
of the Lancashire
battalion
• They created a film
about what happened
to the battalion during
the war, and the
impact on their
families
• Grant: £11,200
Young people filming in Accrington

22. Hermitage Hexham: Morant family collection
• Partnership between two
record offices and
museum
• Acquisition of Morant
family papers – personal
and history of Durham
Light Infantry
• Grant: £19,900Young people filming in Accrington

23. Crime on the Home Front
• Made an archive of
material focused on
FWW policing
accessible through
digitisation and
exhibition
• Worked with a range
of people to interpret
material including a
community play and
smartphone app
• Grant: £40,800
Young people filming in Accrington

24. www.hlf.org.uk/FirstWorldWar

25. HLF project enquiry service
• Initial heritage idea
• Read HLF’s guidance
and project examples
• Submit a project enquiry
form online at
www.hlf.org.uk
• Get a response within 10
working days
• Develop idea
• Apply

26. South East Development Team
Sarah Wicks
Graeme McKirdy
Sandra Martin
southeastengland@hlf.org.uk
HLF South East England - 020 7591 6171