Grants… supporting Cornish potential since 1986
Cornwall Heritage Trust exists to protect and promote Cornwall’s heritage. In addition to protecting its own sites and managing some on behalf of English Heritage, the Trust makes grants, awards and loans every year to projects and causes which mesh with our goals.
Grants are considered quarterly at the full Council meeting (March, June, September and December) and applications must be received by the 1st of the preceding month to be considered. Full terms and conditions can be found on the application form.
We can now accept applications for small grants of up to £500 at any time. Our new system will streamline the process so that small grants can be considered quickly, allowing you to get started without delay on your project.
If your organisation would like to apply for a grant an application form can be downloaded here: Grant application form
The following grants were awarded in 2016/17
| Description | Amount |
| CAU – Penwith Survey | £1,000 |
| CRO – Garstin family archive | £1,000 |
| Penlee Museum – Gibson Archive | £1,500 |
| Cornish Wrestling | £276 |
| Fenten’s Cornish Carols | £1,000 |
| Wheal Martyn | £9,000 |
| The Rhoda Mary Project | £2,980 |
| Perthi Kov | £2,000 |
| Dark Skies | £500 |
| Tough Dough | £2,500 |
| Cornish Quest | £499 |
| Cornwall International Male Choral Festival | £2,500 |
| Porth Residents Association | £1,000 |
| King Edward Mine | £1,500 |
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Who have used our Grants.
The following grants were awarded in 2015/16
- Description
- Tanyard Garden
- Tate St Ives
- Morrab Library
- St Lawrence’s, Bodmin
- Friends of Ponsharden Cemetery
- Cornish Wrestling
- Azook Cornish Memory Project
- Lostwithiel Town Council
- Sensory Trust
- St Buryan Parish Church
- Helston Town Council
- Grant
- £1,000
- £825
- £3,000
- £4,652
- £5,000
- £276
- £5,000
- £3,000
- £1,325
- £1,150
- £1,696
The following grants were awarded in 2014/15:
- Description
- Cornish wrestling youth category trophies
- St Piran’s Oratory
- The Sustainable Trust
- D H Lawrence Centenary
- Fox Family Archive
- King Edward Mine
- Azook Collect Project
- Cornwall Records Office
- Grant
- £288
- £10,000
- £400
- £500
- £5,000
- £5,000
- £5,000
- £335
- Grant
- £1000
- £250
- £3153
- £900
- £336
- £2105
- £500
- £500
- £1000
- £1375
- £2000
The following grants were awarded in 2013/2014:
- Description
- Plen-an-Gwary, St Just
- The Cornish Language Fellowship
- Cornwall Wildlife Trust
- Artists Mark Map Project
- Cornish Wrestling youth trophies
- British Library (Cornish items conservation)
- Cornish architecture conference
- Wayside Museum
- St Erth Parish Church Hall
- Penzance Jewish Cemetery repairs
- Cornwall Historic Churches Trust
The following grants were awarded between 1986 and 2012:
| Recipient | Project | ||
| 1986 | Sept | Liskeard Town Council | Renovation of Clock Tower – important landmark in Liskeard |
| Oct | Restoration of rare medieval wall paintings found at Poldrissick Farm, Landrake | ||
| 1987 | June | Pump House renovation | |
| Nov | The Stuart House Trust | Donation towards the safekeeping of this Grade II listed building in Liskeard | |
| 1988 | Jan | Carnmarth Quarry, Redruth – saved from development | |
| July | National Trust | Assistance to NT to purchase Newton Farm at St Mawes which was in danger of being developed | |
| Oct | Penzance Town Council | Purchase of Stanhope Forbes painting ‘Apprentice in Coppersmith’ (Penlee Art Gallery) | |
| 1989 | May | The Cornish Maritime Trust | Restoration of the lugger ‘Barnabas’ |
| June | Eisteddfod of Cornwall | Trophy for annual presentation | |
| 1990 | April | Royal Institution of Cornwall | Towards the purchase of the J Couch Diaries |
| Sept | Prideaux Place | Restoration of gardens at Prideaux Place | |
| Oct | Committee for the protection of Padstow Daymark | Restoration of Padstow Daymark | |
| 1991 | Mar | Cornwall Record Office Leverhume Trust | Towards the purchase of the Arundel Archives |
| June | Penzance Town Council | Purchase of painting ‘Departure of the Fleet’ by Walter Langley (Penlee Art Gallery) | |
| Oct | Royal Institution of Cornwall | Towards purchase of the Crysede Collection. A large collection of material relating to the highly original textile designer Alec Walker and the Crysede silk printing firm founded in Newlyn in 1920 | |
| 1992 | April | The Woodland Trust | Woods at Looe |
| Sept | Tim Parr | Protection of Gun Point at Padstow | |
| Sept | Cornwall Family History Society | Purchase of documents from the Penrose Estate | |
| Oct | Committee for then Protection of Padstow’s Environment | Restoration of the Padstow Daymark at Stepper Point | |
| Nov | St Gerrans & Porthscatho Old Cornwall Society | Funding to plant an Avenue of trees at Trewince | |
| Nov | Cornwall County Council – County Record Office | Purchase of the Vyvyan of Trelowarren archives | |
| 1993 | July | The Trevithick Society & The National Trust | The Levant Beam Engine Steam Appeal |
| 1994 | Jan | Royal Institution of Cornwall | Refurbishment of the Williams family Victorian Carriage |
| June | The Cornish Maritime Trust | Towards the restoration of ‘Ellen’ a Cornish Crabber | |
| July | Royal Cornwall Geological Museum | Restoration Project for the Museum Grant of £2500 plus interest free loan of £2500 for 5 years |
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| July | The Stuart House Trust | To purchase, restore and open to the public the Grade II listed Stuart House in Liskeard | |
| Sept | Royal Institution of Cornwall | Opie painting ‘A Gentleman and a Miner’ | |
| Dec | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit |
Scheduled Monument Management Programme (1) | |
| Dec | East Cornwall Mining History Group | A bid to restore the Luckett Miners Cottages Interest free loan repaid in 1999 |
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| 1995 | June | Royal Institution of Cornwall | Crosses |
| 1996 | Feb | DCLI | Towards the purchase of a portrait of Alex Stanhope by Stanhope Forbes |
| March | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Archaeological research at Castle-an-Dinas | |
| May | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (2) | |
| June | Keskerdeth Kernow | donation | |
| July | Polperro Heritage Museum | Restoration of the ten oared ‘Ryder’ lifeboat | |
| Oct | St Petroc’s Parochial Church Council | To restore & increase security of St Petroc’s Reliquary (Casket) | |
| Nov | Newquay Rowing Club | The refurbishment of the gig ‘Treffry’ | |
| 1997 | Feb | Pengersick Castle Historic & Educational Trust | Archaeological & Historic Assessment of Pengersick Castle |
| Feb | Trewortha Bronze Age Settlement | Thatching for a Round House | |
| Mar | Nine Maidens School | Funding to put on an opera by the school in conjunction with Mr Benjamin Luxon (Patron) | |
| April | The Cornish Maritime Trust | An engine for the lugger ‘Barnabas’ | |
| April | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (3) | |
| May | Falmouth Art Gallery | Painting by Henry Scott Tuke ‘The Message’ | |
| June | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (4) | |
| June | Newquay Rowing Club | Providing trophies for Junior Gig Championships | |
| Oct | Donation towards mounting a concert at Bodmin | ||
| Dec | Royal Cornwall Museum | Portrait of Sir Jonathan Trelawny | |
| 1998 | March | Pengersick Historic & Educational Trust | Geophysical Survey of grounds with a view to establishing a Physic & Apothecary Garden |
| April | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (5) | |
| May | English Heritage | Conservation/renovation & restoration of Sir Bevil Grenville’s Monument, Lansdown, Bath | |
| Aug | Pengersick Historic & Educational Trust | Further Geophysical survey costs | |
| Dec | Cornwall Gardens Trust | Historical archive for access by the general public | |
| Dec | Exeter University | Annual bursaries for Masters’ degrees relating to the Heritage of Cornwall (1) | |
| 1999 | Jan | Millennium Book for Cornwall Steering Group | Millennium Book for Cornwall |
| Feb | Royal Institute of Cornwall The Courtney Library | Conservation of the ancient Tonkin Manuscript | |
| March | Dockacre House, Launceston | Interest free loan for emergency roof repairs to Dockacre House – Elizabethan Grade II* listed house at Launceston. | |
| April | Camborne Wesley Methodist Church | Towards admin. costs only for this community based centre. | |
| June | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (6) | |
| June | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation to be used on work meeting CHT’s remit (1) | |
| Sept | Exeter University | Annual Heritage Bursaries (2) | |
| Oct | Cornwall Oral History Forum | Donation towards setting up the project | |
| Nov | Trewortha Bronze Age Settlement | Thatching for second round house | |
| Nov | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Archaeological survey of Tintagel Church | |
| Nov | Defence of Britain Project | National project using local volunteers recording, cataloguing and photographing installations within Cornwall built to defend Britain | |
| Dec | DCLI Museum Bodmin | Project to restore, preserve and maintain archive records | |
| 2000 | Jan | Gorseth Kernow | Archival Survey |
| Jan | Royal Cornwall Museum | Exhibition of Christianity in Cornwall – donation towards cost of staging | |
| Feb | Royal Cornwall Museum | Bronze bust of Bishop Benson – first Bishop of Truro | |
| March | Isles of Scilly Environmental Trust | Mount & display original hand painted drawings of the ‘Woolpack Battery’ to be hung in the restored Grade II listed building and Ancient Monument | |
| March | National Maritime Museum | Purchase of naval sword for display in new museum. | |
| March | St Just Submarine Mines |
Exhibition | |
| June | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (7) | |
| June | Eisteddfod of Cornwall | Annual donation | |
| July | Gorseth Kernow | Archival Survey – further funding | |
| Aug | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (2) | |
| Aug | Lawrence House Museum Launceston | Donation towards purchase of coins & tokens minted for the Town in 978-1154 | |
| Sept | Trevail Volunteers Archive | Donation to volunteers to research & establish archive regarding the work of Silvanus Trevail | |
| Oct | Murdoch House Management Committee | Cornish Global Migration Programme archive | |
| Oct | Royal Cornwall Museum | Conservation & photographic prints of Medieval calendar of 1462 | |
| Oct | The Cornish Maritime Trust | Restoration of the Oyster Dedger ‘Softwing’ | |
| Dec | Exeter University | Annual Heritage bursaries (3) | |
| 2001 | Feb | Sacred Sites Network | Donation towards running costs |
| April | Royal Cornwall Museum | Towards purchase of painting by Harold Harvey ‘The Lady’ at Wheal Reeth Tin Mine | |
| April | Arts Centre Trust | Second Ordinalia play at St Just ‘The Passion’ | |
| June | Royal Cornwall Museum | Towards purchase of Ethy Barton Roman coin hoard | |
| June | DCLI Museum Bodmin | Additional funding towards archive project | |
| July | Friends of Glasney College | Towards cost of archaeological survey of Glasney College | |
| Aug | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (3) | |
| Sept | St Agnes Museum Trust | Towards cost of purchase of original figurehead – The Lady Agnes | |
| Sept | Cornwall Federation of Women’s Institutes | Colour copying and presentation of WI Millennium Diaries | |
| Dec | Exeter University | Annual Heritage Bursaries (4) | |
| 2002 | Jan | Royal Cornwall Institution (Courtney Library) |
Purchase of Pennington Cocks Caricature drawings |
| Jan | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit |
Scheduled Monument Management Programme (8) | |
| April | Arts Centre Trust | Third Ordinalia play – ‘The Resurrection’ | |
| April | St Piran Project | Donation towards early stage set up | |
| May | Friends of Luxulyan Valley | Towards purchase of Trethevey Woods | |
| Oct | Dehwelans 2002 | Towards costs (loan converted to a grant) |
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| Oct | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (4) | |
| Oct | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (9) | |
| Nov | Institute of Cornish Studies | Cornish Braids Project – 1000 mini disks | |
| Dec | St Ives Trust | Donation towards St Ives Study Centre | |
| Dec | Exeter University | Annual Heritage Bursaries (5) | |
| 2003 | Feb | Mr Andy Jones – bursary winner | Radio Carbon dating – Watch Hill Barrow |
| Feb | Penwith District Council | On behalf of Harvey Foundry Trust for Archive | |
| March | Madron Church Bell ringers | Refurbish bells and tower for Battle of Trafalgar celebrations | |
| May | Cornish Literary Guild | Towards staging play ‘Hawker of Morwenstow’ | |
| May | Lostwithiel Town Forum | Towards cost of Heritage Trail brochure | |
| Aug | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (5) | |
| SMMP | Sept | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeological Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (10) |
| Sept | Camborne School of Mines | A History of Mining Education (Pledge) | |
| Oct | Leach Pottery Restoration Project | Pledge of support only to date | |
| Oct | Royal Cornwall Museum | Towards purchase of the Holman Art Collection | |
| 2004 | Jan | Exeter University | Annual Heritage Bursaries (6) |
| March | Institute of Cornish Studies CAVA | Cornish Accents Project | |
| March | Falmouth Art Gallery | John Opie painting ‘A Cornish Beggar’ (+ interest free loan if required – not taken up) |
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| April | Dehwelans 2004 | Donation | |
| June | Arts Centre Trust | The third Ordinalia production ‘The Full Cycle’ |
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| July | The Cornish Maritime Trust | Towards restoration of ‘Barnabas’ (subject to Lottery funding) |
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| July | Newquay Rowing Club | Supply and engrave Glass Goblet trophies for Junior Gig Racing (7 yrs) | |
| Nov | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (6) | |
| Dec | Penwith District Council | Towards purchase and restoration of Lescudjack Hill Fort at Penzance | |
| 2005 | Feb | Cornwall County Council Cornwall Archaeology Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (11) |
| Feb | Exeter University | Annual Heritage bursaries (7) | |
| March | Cornwall Family History Soc | Letter of support – new building | |
| May | Bude – Stratton Heritage Trust Ltd | Limelight Project – refurbish Sir Goldsworthy Gurney’s Castle into a heritage centre and Museum with educational facilities and outreach workers for schools and others 2/3 yrs – donation |
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| August | Royal Polytechnic Society | Refurbish, restore and display the Henry Scott Tuke Collection 2/3 years donation (2007/8) |
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| Sept | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation – increased this year for their 50th anniversary (7) | |
| Oct | St Agnes Museum Trust | Towards the purchase of a portrait of Edward Opie Snr | |
| Oct | Trevithick Society | Towards the cost of a survey of Redruth Brewery and Holman Bros Factory Camborne. To be available to the public through CRO and other public reference outlets | |
| Nov | Exeter University | Annual Heritage bursaries (8) | |
| Dec | Cornwall County Council Archaeological Unit | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (12) | |
| 2006 | Jan | PK Trust (Porthcurno) | Towards conservation & mounting materials for historic photographs and documents for the ‘Communications, Crabs, Croust and All’ project |
| March | Cornwall County Council Record Office | Towards the purchase of the Argal Manor Collection | |
| March | Cornwall Ancient Sites Protection Network (CASPN) | Letters of Support for HLF bid – outreach officer | |
| July | St Piran Trust | Towards the staging of a fundraising event for St Piran Trust | |
| August | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (8) | |
| August | Exeter University | Annual Heritage Bursaries (9) | |
| Nov | The Celtic Congress – Cornwall 2007 | Donation towards the staging of the Congress | |
| Nov | Cornwall County Council Environment & Heritage Service | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (13) | |
| 2007 | Feb | Eisteddfod | Annual Donation |
| March | Callington Heritage Centre | Towards the restoration of the heritage collection including specialist repairs to books, documents, papers | |
| March | Dr Andy Jones | Bosiliack Entrance Grave: post-excavation project | |
| June | Victoria County History of Cornwall | Letter of support, help with advertising and funding towards the next phase – The China Clay Country Project | |
| July | Exeter University | Annual Heritage Bursaries (10) | |
| 2008 | Feb | Cornwall Buildings Preservation Trust | Towards cost of feasibility study for the future of Old Duchy Palace, Lostwithiel |
| Feb | Cornwall County Council Historic Environment Service | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (2007/8) (14) | |
| March | Royal Institution of Cornwall Royal Cornwall Museum | Towards the purchase of Bronze Age treasure – ceramic vessel + 33 socketed axes | |
| March | The Charles Causley Trust | Towards the refurbishment of ‘Cyprus Well’ and the understanding of poetry | |
| May | Dehwelans 2008 | Towards cost of festival – publicity from literature | |
| May | Digital Archaeology Virtual Environment Project (DAVE) | Virtual landscape photography of mining archaeology and landscapes | |
| May | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (9) | |
| June | Cornwall County Council Historic Environment Service | Scheduled Monument Management Programme (15) | |
| July | Victoria County History of Cornwall. | The Clay Country project | |
| July | The Sustainable Trust | Restoration of Carwynnen Quoit and surrounding land | |
| July | Exeter University | Annual Heritage Bursaries (11) | |
| July | Hilary Orange | Direct bursary | |
| Sept | Helston Museum | Towards the recovery of the anchor of HMS Anson | |
| Sept | Cornwall Buildings Preservation Trust | Stage 1 first round application to HLF for Old Duchy Palace | |
| Sept | Poltair School | Towards the competition ‘Restoration Cornwall’ for gifted & talented pupils | |
| 2009 | April | Mrs Jane Stanley (through Cornwall Council Printing Dept) |
Towards the cost of printing/publishing a book reconstructing ancient landscapes |
| June | The Board of Deputies of British Jews | Towards the restoration of the Grade II listed walls of the Jewish Cemetery, Penzance | |
| June | Azook Community Interest Company | Towards the cost of digitalisation, online archive and curriculum materials of the Holman Archive | |
| June | Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service |
Scheduled Monument Management Programme (16) |
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| June | Mr Dean Evans | Support in principle for the John Passmore Edwards 100 project | |
| July | Exeter University | Annual Heritage Bursaries (12) | |
| Oct | St Austell Discovery Trail | Donation towards the production and printing of a heritage trail for St Austell brochure | |
| Nov | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (10) | |
| Nov | Mrs Jane Stanley | Interim payment for set of 6 sketches for Castle-an-Dinas through the centuries | |
| 2010 | Jan | Falmouth Art Gallery | Donation towards the purchase of internationally important portrait of Charles Napier Hemy RA |
| June | Truro Cathedral | Save Our Spire appeal to restore the central spire of Truro Cathedral | |
| July | Exeter University | Annual Heritage Bursaries (13) | |
| Sept | Poltair School | Seven Wonders of Cornwall – competition for talented and gifted pupils | |
| Sept | Royal Institution of Cornwall | Towards the purchase of the Carn Brea Gold Coin | |
| Sept | Gorsedd Kernow | Sponsorship of 2011 the Holyer an Gof awards (1) | |
| Oct | Sustainable Trust | Towards educational outreach and restoration of Carwynnen Quoit | |
| Oct | Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service |
Scheduled Monument Management Programme (17) | |
| Oct | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (11) | |
| Dec | Truro Cathedral | Save Our Spire Appeal. Additional grant to help raise balance of Phase 1 | |
| Dec | The Passmore Edwards Centenary | Towards staging events for the Passmore Edwards Centenary celebrations | |
| 2011 | Jan | Mounts Bay Pilot Gig Club Heritage Project | Towards the education of school children in the history & heritage of Cornish Gig rowing |
| Feb | The St Ladoca Old Cornwall Society | Towards the refurbishment of Ladock Glebe Holy Well and stock proof fencing to protect | |
| April | Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service |
Scheduled Monument Management Programme + bracken research (18) |
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| May | St Piran Trust | Towards phase one of the project to uncover and restore St Piran’s Oratory | |
| Oct | The Cornish Gorseth | Sponsorship of the Holyer an Gof Awards 2012 (2) | |
| Oct | Cornwall Historic Churches Trust | Annual donation (12) | |
| Nov | The Friends of Luxulyan Valley | Towards restoration of Carmears Tramway | |
| Nov | Sustainable Trust | Evaluation Exercise Carwynnen Quoit | |
| 2012 | Jan | Canoryon Lowen – A Daughters Tale | Towards cost of community project St Neot |
| Mar | Azook – Re:Collect Project | Towards cost of project £15,000 over 3 years | |
| Mar | Cornish Wrestling | Competiton Trophies |