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ENGLISH HERITAGE and HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND
Joint Repair Grants Scheme for Listed Places of Worship


It was announced in the 2006 Budget that this Grant Scheme, which began in 2002, will continue until 2011. So far, £89.8 million has been awarded to over 1,000 historic places of worship throughout England. Historic synagogues, as well as churches, are eligible to apply.

HOW TO APPLY
The application pack is available from the Joint Listed Places of Worship Scheme website
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See also the English Heritage website and the Heritage Lottery Fund website.


WORLD MONUMENTS FUND
Jewish Heritage Grants Program


For further information, see the World Monuments Fund website.


THE ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION EUROPE

Jewish Heritage Grants Programme


The Rothschild Foundation Europe issues a Call for Applications twice a year, in the spring and autumn. Grant categories include "Jewish Heritage".
For further information, see the Rothschild Foundation website.

SUCCESSFUL BIDS

The Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage in the UK & Ireland
May 2004: the Survey was awarded £315,876
by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the University of Manchester

The following historic Jewish buildings and sites have received public grant aid for repairs and restoration:

Belfast, Jaffe Memorial Fountain
November 2003: Restoration as part of a major redevelopment of the Belfast Botanic Gardens.

Brighton, Middle Street Synagogue (Grade II*)
January 2004: £25,000 Stage 1 grant under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme, with a conditional offer of a further £168,000 at Stage 2.  

Edinburgh, Salisbury Road Synagogue (Scottish B List)
February 2003: £300,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Liverpool, Deane Road Cemetery
December 2010: £494,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant.

Liverpool, Princes Road Synagogue (Grade II*)
February 2001: £166,300 for Phase I under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme.
In June 2003 this grant was increased by £98,700 to a total of £265,000.
December 2004: £84,000 for Phase II under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme.
February 2010: £71,000 under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme.
September 2001: $15,000 from the World Monuments Fund Jewish Heritage Grants Program

London, Congregation of Jacob Synagogue
December 2003: $15,000 from the World Monuments Fund Jewish Heritage Grants Program for repairs to gallery and floor.

London, Golders Green Synagogue (Grade II)
April 2011: £111,000 under the Repair Grant Scheme for Places of Worship.

London, Hampstead Synagogue (Grade II*)
2003: £175,000 under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme.

London, New Synagogue (Grade II)
June 2005: £62,000 under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme.

London, New West End Synagogue (Grade I)
January 2009: £108,000 under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme.

London, Sandys Row Synagogue (Grade II)
May 2009: £254,000 under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme.

Manchester, Higher Crumpsall Synagogue (Grade II)
March 2004: £19,000 Stage 1 grant under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme, with a conditional offer of a further £111,000 at Stage 2.
May 2006: An additional £151,000 under the same scheme.

Plymouth, Plymouth Synagogue (Grade II*)
December 2003: The oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in the country, dating from 1762, was awarded funding under the English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund Joint Repair Grants Scheme: £10,000 for Stage 1 and a further £18,000 in principle for Stage 2.

Stoke-on-Trent Hebrew Congregation

May 2006: This community has been awarded £43,700 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to salvage fixtures and fittings, including the Ark, Bimah, stained glass and Minton mosaic Star of David, from the only synagogue in The Potteries. Situated at Birch Terrace, Handley, Stoke Synagogue (William Campbell 1922-3) closed in March 2006 and is slated for demolition as part of a city centre redevelopment scheme. The rescued artefacts will be reused in a small synagogue being constructed at the edge of the town’s Jewish cemetery. Funding as part of a wider project to record and celebrate the history of the Jewish community in North Staffordshire in the context of the HLF’s Your Heritage programme.

If you would like your Restoration Grant to be announced on the Jewish Heritage UK website,
please inform the Director at
director@jewish-heritage-uk.org

Remember that publicity and (managed) public access to
historic buildings and sites can help efforts to achieve Match Funding.

 

Contact us: director@jewish-heritage-uk.org

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