Community Heritage Grants: Uncovering Sauchiehall Street

We are inviting community and heritage organisations, social businesses, and community groups working around Sauchiehall Street to come together to explore the street’s heritage and future with their communities through a Small Community Grants programme.

We want to bring residents, businesses, and visitors into the conversation about Sauchiehall Street’s intangible heritage, which lives in people’s collective memories of the street as a place of vibrancy and cultural activity, as well as the heritage of the built environment. By uncovering the past together, we hope this will lead to conversations about the street’s future renewal as a Culture and Heritage District, as shaped by the community.

This fund is intended to give community groups the opportunity to pilot new ideas, or create new activity for existing programmes focus on celebrating the heritage of Sauchiehall Street and bringing your community into conversations about how this should shape its future.

For this grants programme, we will be using a participatory budgeting format to involve the Sauchiehall Street community in the decision-making process for how resources should be shared in the community.

Activities will form part of a wider programme of activity designed to uncover, animate and renew the street for the people who live, work and visit the area. The successful ideas and pilot projects from this phase will also inform a 10-year framework that will set out how culture and heritage will contribute to and inform the regeneration of Sauchiehall Street.

This funding scheme is designed to provide small, one-off grants of up to £3,000. The total pot of funding for this scheme is £25,000.

This scheme is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

This opportunity will only be open to community and heritage organisations, businesses with social aims, and community groups working in the geographical areas of Sauchiehall Street, Bath Street, Renfrew Street and Garnethill.

We will not be accepting applications from organisations, social businesses or groups who do not deliver activity outside of the geographical area stated above.

Please read the "Eligibility" section in the guidance document to ensure you are eligible for this fund. 

Applicant's should complete an application form and returned by email to amcv@glasgowlife.org.uk with the title “Community Heritage Grant: Uncovering Sauchiehall Street” – GROUP/ORGANISATION NAME”.

Deadline: Monday 7th October 2024 – mid-day (12:00pm).

Application Forms and Guidelines are available to download below. Please read the Guidelines carefully before applying. 

We will accept applications as video files or voice recording, which will later be transcribed, if this is more accessible for you.

If you plan on submitting your application as a video or voice recording, would like your application translated, or have access needs you would like to discuss, please email: amcv@glasgowlife.org.uk.