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Heritage Enterprise (HE) - UK

Heritage Enterprise is a grant of £250,000 to £5,000,000 for not-for-profit organisations and partnerships working on heritage projects that bring neglected historic buildings back into use across the UK. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by National Lottery Heritage Fund · funded by National Lottery

Checked against the official page (heritagefund.org.uk) on 20 Oct 2026.

Heritage funding for heritage projects, from £10,000 up to £10 million, across programmes including National Lottery Heritage Grants. Page lists several funding programmes and strategic initiatives.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

Not confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Not confirmed on the official page

How much

£250,000 to £5,000,000

Confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Not-for-profit organisations, and partnerships between commercial and not-for-profit organisations, working on heritage projects in the UK that drive economic growth by bringing neglected historic buildings back into viable use. Applicants must first submit an Expression of Interest.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff), Large businesses, Start-ups

Not confirmed on the official page

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How to apply

Check what we fund on the What we fund page before applying, starting with the first-time guidance.

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Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

Things we could not confirm

  • Eligibility for businesses not stated
  • Deadlines not stated
  • Nature Networks Fund is listed for Wales but its own page is not part of this text
  • Programme details are on linked pages not included in this text

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (heritagefund.org.uk) on 20 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 20 Oct 2026. A person last checked it on 9 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with National Lottery Heritage Fund before you apply.

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