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Enfield – Our Stories: heritage grant programme

EVA is launching a £118,000 grants programme for Enfield community and voluntary organisations to run heritage projects that record, share and celebrate Enfield’s diverse heritage, cultures and spaces. 

Your project could cover anything from cultural traditions and community histories to nature and industrial or transport heritage.

Grants of between £1,000 and £15,000 are available. We want to encourage a wide variety of applications – it doesn’t matter if you have not previously run a heritage project.

How to apply

Organisations that would like to apply for a grant from the Enfield – Our Stories should book a place at our grants programme launch event to find out more. The event will take place on Tuesday 17 June 2025 and will include a presentation on running heritage projects and a session to help you apply for the grants.

We are also running a series of four additional heritage workshops across summer and autumn 2025. Each workshop will cover a different heritage project theme – you can come to as many as you like. These workshops will also include a session to help you with the grant application process.

All applications must be made through our online application form below. You should read the grant guidelines carefully before applying and ensure you have the relevant documents for your organisation.

>> Read the Enfield – Our Stories grants guidelines (pdf)

>> Getting support and advice on your application – you can find contact details and useful resources on this page.

The final grant application deadline is 5pm on Tuesday 18 November 2025.

Grant application form – Enfield Our Stories
Please read the Enfield – Our Stories grant guidelines before completing this form. If you are unable to complete the form in one go, you can save it and return to complete it later. Click SAVE at the bottom of the form and a link to go back to the form will be sent to your email address.
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I would like to apply for a grant from the Enfield – Our Stories heritage grants programme on behalf of my organisation

A. About your organisation

A3. Please confirm that at least 80% of your services are delivered to Enfield residents
A4. Please confirm that your organisation has at least two years' experience of delivering services or activities
A5. The organisation is a…
Please tick all that apply. We will only accept applications from not-for-profit organisations
A6. Your organisation's postal address, including full postcode
Max 100 words
A8. The name of the lead or main contact person for your organisation
A15. Please confirm that your organisation has three or more trustees, directors or management committee members in total (including the person whose details you have given in A12 to A14 above)

B. Your organisation's bank account

We need details of your organisation’s bank account. We will only use this information if you are awarded a grant.

C. About your project

Max 100 words
Max 400 words. The project themes are: Cultural traditions, Oral history, Nature, Commemorations and celebrations, Industrial and transport. See the grant guidelines for more details
Max 200 words
Max 200 words. If your project is about memories or cultural and oral traditions, you should set out information about the subject and the historic time period the project will cover. If this heritage is at risk of being lost in some way, you should highlight this risk and how your project will help. If your project is about physical heritage (such as a building, historic object or collection, or nature reserve), you should provide factual information about it, such as its size, when it dates from, the surviving features, its condition and why it is important to Enfield and local people. The project must demonstrate a clear link to the UK’s heritage, even if the project itself has an international element. Examples that have previously been funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (our main funder for Enfield – Our Stories) include: • Heritage of the Chinese community in London’s Chinatown from the 1960s. • Culinary heritage of Somali families living in the Granby area of Liverpool. • Blackburn’s South Asian heritage: past, present, and future
Max 50 words. Examples: at a named venue, online, in people’s homes. Please specify the geographical area or postcodes where possible
Max 200 words. For example, if your project includes oral history, let us know that you have attended or plan to attend relevant training. Or, if your project includes work with schools, please outline your previous links with schools or explain how you plan to engage local schools in your work.
If funded, projects can start on 1 February 2026
If funded, projects must finish by 31 January 2027

D. Project budget

D4. Please submit your budget, using the document upload box below. 

Your budget should be submitted as an Excel file or OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) file or as a .pdf document.

You can download a budget template here, fill it in and then upload it in the box below.

Your budget should include the total cost of the project and the amounts under each budget heading for different types of expenditure (eg. venue costs, staff costs, printing, refreshments, equipment costs etc)

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.
You can upload Excel documents, Open Document equivalents or PDF files

E. Your organisation's key documents – we must have all the documents below by the application deadline

Your grant application must include these documents:

a) Your most recent annual accounts covering a full year’s activity

b) Your organisation’s governing document (eg constitution or memorandum and articles)

c) Your organisation’s safeguarding policy

d) Your organisation’s health and safety policy

e) Your organisation’s data protection policy

f) Your organisation’s equal opportunities policy

If your organisation is an EVA member and has renewed its EVA membership since November 2019, we will already hold these documents for you.

You should check with Jenny Budden at EVA – on admin@enfieldva.org.uk – whether we already have these documents. ​

If you would like templates of the required policies, please contact admin@enfieldva.org.uk

E1. Please choose one option below to explain how you will provide your documents

Final declaration

F1. Please read the terms and conditions for grant applicants

I have read and understood the terms and conditions for grant applicants

What is 7+4?

If you are ready to submit your application, please click Submit.

If you want to save your part-completed form and finish it later, please click SAVE.

Please note: if you save your form, all the answers you supplied will be saved, but you will need to upload any supporting documents again when you go back to the form.

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