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<p>Historic England, funded by DCMS, is the government's statutory advisor on heritage
and tasked with protecting the historical environment of England by preserving and
listing historic buildings, ancient monuments and advising central and local government.
Historic England currently offers c. £11 million per year for capital works to heritage
sites across the country, through their Repair Grants for heritage at risk.</p><p>The
National Lottery Heritage Fund is an arms length body of DCMS and distributes both
Lottery player funding and government funding. The National Lottery Heritage Fund
has a range of grants open to both museum and heritage organisations from £3,000 -
£5M, which includes grants for maintenance and capital projects.</p><p>National Lottery
Heritage Fund and Historic England also offer support by distributing grants via the
government funded Culture Recovery Fund which includes a significant allocation for
capital funding to cultural and heritage sites. In 2021/22 £33.6 million is available
through the Grants for Programmes of Major Works and Additional Repair Grants for
Heritage at Risk schemes.</p><p>Investment is also being made in vital infrastructure,
repair and maintenance work for museums.</p><p>The Museum Estate and Development Fund
(MEND) will provide £18.8m in capital funding grants of between £50k-£5m for infrastructure,
repair and maintenance work in regional accredited museums.</p><p>In addition, over
the past three years, government has distributed £131m capital funding among DCMS-Sponsored
bodies, including the national museums and galleries, to enable them to carry out
essential estates maintenance and improvement works.</p>
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