1.  About the HLF/ LPS
 LPs for AONB
funding - benefits
(& limitations)
 Good practice in
bids/ delivery & the
LP future
 Evaluation?

2. HLF funding programmes
General programmes
• Heritage Grants – £50k to £5m
& upwards
• Your Heritage – £3k to £50k
Targeted programmes
• Young Roots - £3k to £25k
• Townscape Heritage Initiative – £500k to £2m
• Landscape Partnerships - £250k to £2m
• Parks for People - £250k to £5m (in Eng with BIG)
Plus:
Skills for the Future (£100k to £1m); Repair grants for Places of Worship
(£10k to £250k); Catalyst Endowments (£30m match with DCMS)

3. Landscape Partnerships - features:
Aims
• £250k to £2m • Conserve & restore built and
• Area 20 km² to 200 natural features
km² • ^ community participation in
• ‘Distinctive’ lscp local heritage
character • ^ access to and learning
• Partnerships – LA, about lscp & heritage
NGO, NDPB &c • ^ training opportunities in local
• Multi project heritage skills
• Match funding ≥ 5%
(was 10%) ≤ £1m;
≥ 10% (was 25%) for
> £1m grant

4. Landscape Partnerships – process
• Pre-application form
• First-round applications in by 28th February
• Case Officer assessment;
Annual decision at July Trustees Board
• Up to £100k in development funding
• Development phase up to 12-18 months
• To produce a Landscape Conservation Action Plan
• 2nd round submission non–competitive, to
Cntry/Reg C’tees,
• HLF mentor/ monitor
• Mid-term and final reports
• Qualitative and quantitative
evaluation

5. Lead bodies of landscape
partnership and area scheme
by number of schemes and
percentage of total
Numbers (left) and area covered
(right) by landscape partnership and
area schemes in protected
landscapes

6. • Sperrins
• Lagan Valley
AONBs with LPs (or ASs) &
•
(August 2011) 7/11
Nortumberland Coast
• Arnside and Silverdale
20/ 59; 14/45 (Lindisfarne)
• Blackdown Hills (Neroche) • Arnside & Silverdale
• Chichester Harbour (Rhythms of Tide) (Morecambe Bay)
• Clwydian Range (Heather and Hillforts) • Gower
• Caring for the Cotswolds • Dorset (S Dorset Ridgeway)
• Dedham Vale/ Stour Valley • Shropshire Hills (Stiperstones
and Corndon Hill )
• Dorset (Carving a Foundation/ Purbeck Keystone Project) • Suffolk Coast and Heaths
• High Weald (Weald Forest Ridge) (Suffolk Heritage Coast)
• Isle of Wight (West Wight/ Eyes of the Needles) • North Pennines (Lower
• Kent Downs x 2 (Medway Gap 'Valley of Vision‘ & White Derwent Valley)
Cliffs)
• Llyn Peninsula (Partneriaeth Tirlun Llyn/ Living on the View)
• Malvern Hills
• Mourne (Mountain Kingdom)
• North Pennines x 2 (Unique/ Living NP & Heart of Teesdale/
Barnard Castle Vision
• Shropshire Hills (Blue Remembered Hills)
• Solway Coast (Sule Way/ Solway Wetlands)
• South Devon (Life into Landscape)
• Wye Valley

7. DHH STO
MED WFR
£1,813,000

8. HLF LPS as AONB funding?
Congruent with AONB purposes & challenges
• Natural and cultural heritage
• Landscape ‘character’
(NB not nec’y ‘eminent’ & care about LCA)
• For and with people
• Social and economic well-being
(training/ community plans?)
• Partnerships (NB LP ≠ JAC)
• NB HLF not just LPs – Heritage Grants may
be more appropriate if specific biodiversity/
artefact project to deliver

9. Heritage Grants programme…
• Conserve heritage, engage people
• £50k to £5m & up
• Rolling programme, < £5m apply anytime
• 3 month assessment period
• Two round competitive process
• Development funding available
• £50k - £1m Cntry/Reg C’tees (Jun, Sep, Dec, Mar)
• £1m - £5m Trustees – 6x p.a. (>£5m via C/R team)
• ≥ 5% match funding (was 10%) ≤ £1m grant
• ≥ 10% (was 25%) match funding for > £1m grant

10. S, 0 & LP future W&T
• Landscape ‘in’ – ELC (& • Up-front investment –
failure on biodiversity • Partnership (arms length?)
targets) and proposal development
• ‘Big Society’ & localism • Financial uncertainty &
• Lawton, NEWP, IBDAs, match funding
NIAs and LNPs • Scale of funding/ ‘balance’
• Multi-project ‘fill the gaps’ & ‘flaky’ projects?
in AONB activity? • Exit strategies – what
• Landscape character – after?
beyond NEWP • M & E a pain?
• Success rate > 50% • Need a good project
• LPs to continue 2013 – manager – who stays to
2019 SP4 strategy May 2012 the end!

11. What makes a good application?
• Clear, concise & well written – follows guidance
• Clearly defined boundary/ies to area(s)
• Clear vision and proven need for scheme
• Strong partnership reflecting all interests
• Robust project management structure
• ‘Offers good vfm - no CDs/ DVDs! Need ‘value
added’ not just delivery of AONB MP objectives
• Outreach’ – new heritage categories/ audiences/
local engagement
• Likelihood of sustained benefits
- what happens after?

12. 3 points ?
• ‘Synergy’ - LPs are HLF’s ‘flagship’ programme -
multi-purpose, multi-project, multi-partner, just like
AONBs. AONBs important to HLF as a
dependable delivery base.
• ‘Outreach’ - beyond the AONB MP. LPs mean new
heritage categories/ audiences/ local engagement.
How could a Landscape Partnership and Scheme
(re) invigorate the AONB?
• ‘Sharing’ - lots of experience amongst AONBs –
need to identify and share best practice!
( PS & get a good project team, early, & keep them)

13. Links – HLF LP Guidance:
• Guidance
• Pre-application and Application forms
• 1st & 2nd round Help Notes
All at:
http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/programmes/
Pages/landscapepartnerships.aspx

14. Links – CEPAR HLF LP Evaluation:
• Summary and Full reports plus appendices:
At
http://www.hlf.org.uk/aboutus/howwework/Pages/
LandscapePartnershipsevaluation.aspx
And together with Appendices
• Lists of LP and Area Schemes
• Supplementary Guidance on LP Evaluation
• Basic & Output Data from LP Schemes
on the CEPAR webpages at
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/environment/lps
Username: HLF123, Password: LPS123

15. Downsides of Landscape and Partnership working

16. Evaluation tips
• Start early – work out the story of your project
• Take ownership of your evaluation
• Define objectives, outputs and expected outcomes
• Select indicators that will show progress towards
outcomes – not just easiest measures or counting for
counting’s sake
• Involve people
• Collect quantitative and qualitative evidence
• Monitor continuously and consistently throughout the
project
• Collect final data

17. Participative M & E
Output monitoring
• Integrate with scheme
delivery (LCAP, mid-delivery, Final Report)
• Standard data categories/ Outcome evaluation
codes – across HLF programme/ integrate • Workshops – regional, as well as new
with national datasets?
schemes?
• Baseline data? When, who, from • M & E need to be embedded in
where?
project planning & delivery
• GIS – shape files and spatial • Incorporated in LCAP – a guide to
analysis
action and delivery
• Actioned with partners
• Final Report to address legacy
as well as achievement