Heritage Legacy Fund
The Heritage Legacy Fund (HLF) was established in 2003 by an agreement of the provincial government of British Columbia. With the termination of the BC Heritage Trust at the time, HLF was designed to take over the community support function, specifically to provide grants for the heritage sector of British Columbia. The province endowed the project with an initial gift of $5 million, which is held by the Vancouver Foundation. Today, Heritage BC is the administrator of the grants fund.
Applications to the Heritage Planning funding stream can be submitted year-round. Please see the guidelines and worksheet for more information. All applicants must contact Laura Saretsky to verify eligibility and receive application instructions.
Intake for other funding streams will open in the spring of 2020.
For more information about the program, please see the following. Note: these documents are subject to change for 2020.
- 2019 Guidelines
- Heritage Conservation Worksheet
- Heritage Awareness Worksheet
- Heritage Planning Worksheet
- Indigenous Partnership Worksheet
To learn more about the Heritage Legacy Fund, please contact Laura Saretsky.
Funding is offered in four streams:
- Heritage Conservation Program for the preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of heritage resources.
- Heritage Awareness Program for the research, documentation, presentation, and publication of information about specific community heritage resources.
- Heritage Planning Programm for the creation of planning documents to assist with heritage conservation and awareness.
- Indigenous Partnership Program for initiatives to further reconciliation with Indigenous peoples through collaboration.
