The National Lottery Heritage Fund has published the first three-year delivery plan for its new 10-year strategy, Heritage 2033.
The Heritage Fund writes:
Heritage 2033 delivery plan: 2023–2026 – Heritage 2033 – our 10-year strategy
Purpose of the delivery plan
The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s 10-year strategy, Heritage 2033, sets out our ambitions to make a decisive difference for people, places and communities as we invest an anticipated £3.6billion raised for good causes by National Lottery players over the next decade.
Our long-term strategy is supported by three-year delivery plans, setting out how the aims of the strategy will be delivered. They will allow us to take a flexible approach, adapting to heritage sector needs and responding to external events or opportunities over the 10 years.
Our 2023–2026 delivery plan sets out the key milestones and how we will deliver National Lottery investment for the first three years, as well as how we are transitioning to our new strategy in 2023–2024. This plan will be updated annually as part of our business planning processes.
Our vision
Our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.
Our investment principles
Our four investment principles guide all our decision making:
- Saving heritage: conserving and valuing heritage, for now and the future.
- Protecting the environment: supporting nature recovery and environmental sustainability.
- Inclusion, access and participation: supporting greater inclusion, diversity, access and participation in heritage.
- Organisational sustainability: strengthening heritage to be adaptive and financially resilient, contributing to communities and economies.
We will ask projects we fund to take all four investment principles into account in their applications. Further details for applicants will follow in updated guidance, communications and announcements during the transition year of 2023–2024.
Our values
Our values and behaviours are fundamental to the way we work. They are embedded across our strategic and business planning and our leadership and management. Our four values are:
- Inclusive?of all aspects of heritage, people and communities.
- Ambitious? for our people, communities and heritage.
- Collaborative by working and learning together.
- Trusted? for our integrity, expertise and judgement.
The role of The National Lottery Heritage Fund
As the largest funder of UK heritage, The National Lottery Heritage Fund (Heritage Fund) invests money raised by National Lottery players across the UK, in collaboration with a wide range of statutory bodies, as well as other National Lottery distributors. Our work is made possible thanks to the support of National Lottery players. We award 20% of the good causes income raised by National Lottery players and deliver grant programmes on behalf of the UK and devolved governments.
We are a non-departmental public body accountable to Parliament via the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Our decisions about individual applications and policies are entirely independent of the government. The Trustees of the National Heritage Memorial Fund is our legal body for the administration and supervision of all funds vested in us. It was set up by the National Heritage Act 1980 to administer the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
The role of the National Heritage Memorial Fund
The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) was set up in 1980 to save the most outstanding parts of our national heritage, in memory of those who have given their lives for the UK.
As a fund of last resort, NHMF provides financial assistance towards the acquisition, preservation and maintenance of some of the UK’s finest objects and landscapes. These range from historic houses and works of art, to trains, boats and ancient landscapes. NHMF has helped create a world-class collection that belongs to the people of the United Kingdom, forever.
This delivery plan details how we will deliver National Lottery investment.
