ALB-Historic England-Historic Assets into Community Ownership (360G-cabinetoffice-G2-GA-2025051624727-24-25)

Historic Assets into Community Ownership will yield important heritage outcomes. The baseline programme envisions resources for only a small number of grants to support projects to test the viability of their ideas roughly 25-30 Project Viability Grants. The programme will, however, also provide important advice and support to a larger number of projects up to 75 projects across England looking to bring historic buildings into community use and ownership. Additionally, we would hope to supplement the small grants budget with additional funding for Project Development Grants from Historic England, to the quantum possible depending on availability. Without certainty on the overall grants budget, it is difficult to predict how many regenerated historic buildings will be delivered as a result of this programme, but our long-term evaluation of our work suggests that this programme could lead to 45 or more historic buildings regenerated within ten years. In this way, the programme will help protect and enhance for the long term the character of places in England and utilise historic assets for town centre renewal (Corporate Plan Strategic Objectives; Future Strategy, Three Areas of Focus; Corporate Plan Strategic Activity 01).