Acknowledging and celebrating your grant
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What is acknowledgement?
If you are awarded a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, you must acknowledge our support publicly.
Acknowledging your grant is a way to thank National Lottery players and recognise the funding that made your project possible. It also helps show the impact of National Lottery funding, so we can continue to support projects like yours in the future.
Received a grant from one of our strategic initiatives or grant-in-aid programmes? Find out how to acknowledge strategic initiative and non-National Lottery funding.
Download our acknowledgement toolkit
Our acknowledgement toolkit contains everything you will need to plan your acknowledgement.
How to acknowledge your grant
Our acknowledgement stamp and logos
You must use our acknowledgement stamp prominently throughout your project.
The stamp must be used clearly where people can see it along with the message ‘Thanks to National Lottery players’.
Download our acknowledgement stamps.
How to use our name
Use The National Lottery Heritage Fund in full in titles, headlines and in the first mention in speeches or interviews. Always use an uppercase 'T' on 'The'.
If you need to mention us again you can use Heritage Fund or the Heritage Fund. When writing our name this way, use a lowercase 't' on 'the'.
Do not use abbreviations like NLHF.
Where to acknowledge your grant
You should acknowledge your grant anywhere the public will see or hear about your project.
Every project is different so not everything in the toolkit will be relevant to you. Places we normally expect you to acknowledge your grant include:
- On websites, blogs and in videos
- On social media
- In press releases and media interviews
- At launch, opening and milestone events
- On signage for buildings, structures and outdoor spaces
- In exhibitions
- In staff recruitment materials
- On banners, flags and printed promotional materials
How prominently you acknowledge your grant should reflect how much funding you have received. For example, a large project receiving £1million will need a higher level of acknowledgement than a smaller one receiving £10,000.
Read our acknowledgement toolkit for full guidance on how and where to acknowledge your grant.
Get inspired
An acknowledgement plaque at St Mary's, Shrewsbury.
An acknowledgement stamp on a lawn at Croxteth Hall and Walled Gardens.
Acknowledgement stamp on display at Chelsea Physic Garden.
Dockside Stories interpretation boards featuring acknowledgement stamps.
An acknowledgement plaque at Barts North Wing.
A plaque featuring an acknowledgement stamp on a Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways train.
An acknowledgement stamp at Bowring Park.
An embroidered acknowledgement stamp at Norwich Castle Keep.
Templates and materials
You can download templates and materials below. See the acknowledgement toolkit for guidance on how to use them.
Press release templates
Ready-to-print banners and flags
Social media assets
Our strategic initiatives and grant-in-aid programmes have their own acknowledgement requirements.
Select the relevant programme below to find the acknowledgement guidance and logos you need.
Strategic initiatives
Grant-in-aid
Get in touch
If you have questions about acknowledgement, email brand@heritagefund.org.uk.
Guidance updates
We will regularly review this guidance and respond to user feedback. We reserve the right to make changes as required. We will communicate any changes as quickly as possible via this webpage.