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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Building maintenance guidance
The best way to tackle the long term care of historic buildings is to concentrate on regular preventative maintenance.
Business plan template and guidance
A guide to developing a business plan for your organisation, to apply for funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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Community Grants guidance
Community Grant Schemes are a ring-fenced pot of money that you can use to fund other groups/organisations to deliver small, separate projects.
Conservation planning guidance
Conservation planning is a process that will help you look after your heritage the best way you can.
Creating digital resources: GDPR, copyright and using open licences
A new toolkit to help heritage projects openly licence digital materials, in line with copyright and privacy rules.
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Digital guidance for projects
The National Lottery Heritage Fund's digital requirements apply to all projects.
Digital guide: an introduction to online accessibility
This digital guide is designed to help heritage organisations make their online content accessible to all.
Digital guide: getting started with online learning
This guide covers a range of free, easily accessible tools and resources that you can use to create innovative and engaging online learning experiences.
Digital guide: online privacy and security
Advice and resources to help heritage organisations keep information secure and safeguard people's privacy when working online.
Digital guide: working safely online with children and young people
This online safety guide has been produced by Childnet International for The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Digitisation project planner, handbook and examples
Use this project planner and handbook to help you develop your digitisation project idea into a comprehensive plan.
Doing digitisation on a budget: a guide to low-cost digital projects
This guide provides an overview of low-cost heritage digitisation and shares inspiring examples.
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Environmental sustainability guidance
What we expect from our projects – advice and ideas on how your project can help tackle the climate and ecological emergencies.
Evaluation guidance
How to carry out an evaluation of your National Lottery-funded project.
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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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Management and maintenance plan guidance for landscapes, parks and gardens
If you are applying for over £250,000 under the National Lottery Grants for Heritage Programme, we will ask you to prepare a management and maintenance plan during your development phase.
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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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Oral history guidance
Oral history is the recording and archiving of people’s memories, feelings and attitudes.
Organisational resilience guidance
This guidance is designed to help you meet our outcome: with our investment your organisation will be more resilient.
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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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Racial equity in nature toolkit
The Heritage Fund's guide to recruiting and nurturing diverse early career talent.
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Skills and training guidance
This guidance is designed to help you meet our outcome: people will develop skills through your project.
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Understanding your heritage guidance
This document provides summary guidance about understanding the heritage of your object, place or site.
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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.