Coastal Communities Fund - round two applictaions open

Communities around Britain's coastline have a second chance to bid for part of a special fund to support rejuvenating seaside towns.

The £27million Coastal Communities Fund - which is derived from income from the Crown Maritime Estate - will be delivered by the Big Lottery Fund on behalf of the Government.

Past winners include the Clevedon Pier and Heritage Trust in Somerset and the North York Moors Historical Railway Trust.

Deadline for first-round applications is the 13 May. For more information and to apply, please click here.

Changes to HLF Our Heritage Programme

The Heritage Lottery Fund will now accept applications for grants from private individuals and commercial ‘for profit’ organisations of up to £100,000 for capital projects under its Our Heritage Programme.   

Private owners will need to show that their project will achieve a step change in public access and engagement with heritage, that there is public enthusiasm for it and a clear need for Lottery investment. 

East Devon HEAP Project launched to local parishes

The East Devon HEAP project is well underway and has been launched to the two parishes in East Devon who will be involved with the community work - Branscombe and Woodbury. We look forward to working with these communities over the next two years

New Heritage Help Advice Portal from the JCNAS

Source: The heritage Alliance Heritage Update 250

 

With funding from English Heritage, the Joint Committee of the National Amenity Societies’ (JCNAS) - which includes several Alliance members - has today launched a new Heritage Help advice portal, bringing together for the first time the expertise offered by heritage organisations and offering support on saving and caring for historic assets.

The free information service is aimed at local history groups and town and parish councils facing new responsibilities for the care of their historic environment under the recent Localism Act 2011, as well as individual owners of historic properties. The site will include advice on everything from the designation of historic structures or sites to working with listed buildings and conservation areas, applying for grants and forming local groups.

Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and the Creative Industries, welcomed the news, saying "Heritage Help is good news. It brings together all that [specialised] knowledge, making it more accessible to local groups caring for their local historic environment and I wish it every success in the future."

For more information, please click here

East Devon AONB HEAP Project Launched

The East Devon AONB Partnership is taking an innovative approach to explore how the traditional top down model of creating strategic landscape wide Historic Environment Action Plans can be effectively combined with a community led bottom up approach. Funded by English Heritage and led by Wyvern Heritage the project consists of two interrelated strands:

• A top down Historic Environment Action Plan will be created for the Areas within the existing Landscape Character Assessment building on and enhancing the Landscape Character Assessment Management Guidelines for the AONB.
• The bottom up approach will be developed for two parishes within the East Devon AONB encouraging the proactive and effective engagement of communities in the active management of historic and archaeological aspects of the AONB.

Working closely with community contacts, the project will complement existing heritage action in the AONB as well as help guide future policy delivery in East Devon. Visit the East Devon AONB website for more information.

Advice to AONB on Heritage Content of Management Plan

Wyvern Heritage is giving a local AONB input into their management plan review process updating heritage evidence bases, reviwing heritage strategies and reflecting changes introduced by the new NPPF.

Support for local Historic Gardens Trust

We are helping a local historic gardens trust review their computer systems and introducing a new membership database.