Grants and Funding

This grant scheme provides financial support to voluntary groups who are maintaining their local graveyard or burial grounds. The grant can be used towards the cost of maintenance and upkeep of these sites.

This grant scheme helps community groups to carry out anti-litter and anti-graffiti awareness campaigns in their local area. It has a particular focus on voluntary initiatives, and on involving schools and young people in anti-litter and anti-graffiti activities.

The Built Heritage Investment Scheme can assist with the repair and conservation of structures that are protected under the Record of Protected Structures or are in Architectural Conservation Areas or the amenity of a National Monument. 

The Historic Structures Fund (HSF) is available to help with the cost of for large-scale conservation works on historic structures.

The Domestic Lead Remediation Grant Scheme helps households to replace lead piping in their internal drinking water distribution systems. 

A housing adaptation grant may be provided where changes need to be made to a home to make it suitable for a person with a physical, sensory, or intellectual disability or mental health difficulty.

The Housing Aid for Older people scheme is used to improve the condition of an older person’s home through repair or improvement works. It is aimed at people aged 66+ living in poor housing conditions.

Local authorities can provide grant aid for minor works to address mobility problems in privately owned homes.

As part of the Repair and Leasing Scheme (RLS), the local authority may provide an interest-free loan to owners of vacant residential properties to help them bring them up to private letting standards.

This scheme is helps local authority tenants to carry out improvement works on their home.

This grant is available to property owners who intend to refurbish a vacant property to turn it into their permanent home or to rent it out to tenants.

The Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme (ORIS) provides funding to develop new outdoor recreational facilities in rural locations. It also provides support to repair, maintain and enhance existing outdoor recreational facilities.