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Good practice guidance

Guidance to help you plan and deliver your heritage project.

Take a look at the guidance we've provided to help you along with your project. Whether you need support with meeting our outcomes, grant applications or establishing your own objectives, everything you need to get you started is listed below.

34 good practice publications listed.

Index

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  • Activity plan guidance

    An activity plan sets out everything you will do as part of your National Lottery-supported project to achieve positive outcomes for the people involved.

  • Area-based schemes and area action plans

    We recommend that you read this guidance in full before submitting your project enquiry or expression of interest and before filling in your application form.

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  • Full cost recovery

    If you are an organisation in the voluntary sector, we can cover a proportion of your organisation’s overheads, which must be appropriate to the time or resources used for your project.

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  • Inclusion guidance

    This guidance will help you address our inclusion priority in your project. It is for everyone applying for a grant, regardless of the size or type of organisation you represent or the amount you are requesting.

  • Intangible cultural heritage guidance

    Intangible cultural heritage is the knowledge and traditions inherited from previous generations and passed on to our descendants.

  • Interpretation guidance

    This guidance is designed to help applicants and grantees undertake interpretation in their projects.

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  • Local area guidance

    This guidance is designed to help you meet our priority outcome: the local area will be a better place to live, work or visit.

  • Local economy guidance

    This guidance is designed to help you meet our outcome: how your project can boost your local economy.

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  • Nature and landscapes guidance

    This guidance is to help you design and deliver projects involving work or activity linked to habitats, species, landscapes, geology or the ecosystems of which they are part.

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  • Project plan templates

    We ask you to complete one of these project plan templates so that we can see how you plan to manage your project and link all the tasks and activities together in a logical way.

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  • Volunteering guidance

    Volunteers play important roles in many of the projects we fund, and have contributed to all sorts of activities.

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  • Wellbeing guidance

    This guidance will help you address the outcome ‘People will have greater wellbeing’ in your project. It is for everyone applying for a grant, regardless of the size or type of organisation you represent or the amount you are requesting.

  • Welsh bilingual project guidance

    This guidance is designed for applicants and grantees of Welsh projects – it will help you manage your project bilingually in both Welsh and English.

  • Writing a brief for the procurement of goods or services

    This is a template brief for the procurement of good or services. It shows you what you might want to include when looking for goods and services.