Heritage Applications

The Vinehill Trust provides funding for historic building restoration projects that offer employment and training opportunities in traditional building crafts. Eligible projects include restoration work requiring skills in stonemasonry, joinery, ornamental plasterwork, carving, graining, stucco and scagliola work, mural and fresco restoration, leadwork, thatching, gilding, stained glass conservation, and encaustic tiling. The program covers historic buildings including twentieth century buildings of architectural distinction, as well as historic fixtures and fittings, curtilage structures, and structures in designed landscapes. The Trust particularly encourages applications for projects in less affluent areas that can serve as catalysts for socio-economic improvement. Before funding is confirmed, applicants must provide information on proposed restoration methodology and evidence that necessary permissions such as planning and listed building consents have been obtained. Applications are not considered for movable heritage, heritage crafts unconnected to physical building fabric, buildings in private ownership without public access, new buildings or extensions, or routine repair and maintenance work.