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Grants Awarded 2018-19 GRANTS AWARDED BY HES 2018-19 Recipient Project Scheme Grant Date Pamela Gillespie and Robin Morris Thatching - Pam Gillespie HESF £6,500 19/03/2019 SCHARP: 1. Championing Scotland's Heritage Organisational Support SCAPE Trust £27,208 18/03/2019 2. Making Knowledge Accessible Fund South Ayrshire Council Maybole CARS CARS £1,289,000 12/03/2019 Grants for Places of St Saviour's Church, Bridge of Allan St Saviour's Episcopal, Bridge of Allan £138,700 04/03/2019 Worship Grants for Places of Carstairs Parish Church Carstairs Parish Church £66,300 01/03/2019 Worship Citizen Curator Citizen Curator SCIO HESF £10,000 26/02/2019 Duncan Campbell, Colinton Colinton Community Conservation Trust HESF £5,000 26/02/2019 Community Conservation Trust Alvah and Forglen Community Forglen Hall HESF £15,000 26/02/2019 Council, James Bayne Govanhill Baths Community Trust, Govanhill Bath Community Trust HESF £5,000 26/02/2019 Fatima Uygun Renfrewshire Council, Susan Jones Renfrewshire Council HESF £5,000 26/02/2019 North West Mull Community Thatching - North West Mull HESF £10,700 26/02/2019 Woodland Company Ruary Mackenzie Dodds Thatching - Ruary Mackenzie Dodds HESF £6,900 26/02/2019 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Organisational Support Society of Antiquaries of Scotland £488,379 26/02/2019 Dr Simon Gilmour Fund Organisational Support Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1. Dig It Phase 2 2. SCARF £488,379 26/02/2019 Fund - Project GRANTS AWARDED BY HES 2018-19 Recipient Project Scheme Grant Date Publication - A Norse Settlement in the Outer Oxbow Books Ltd - Niall Sharples Archaeology £15,225 25/02/2019 Hebrides (Bornais Vol 3) Grants for Places of St Aloysius Church St Aloysius Church, Glasgow £140,000 22/02/2019 Worship Grants for Places of Cromdale Parish Church Cromdale Parish Church £52,800 22/02/2019 Worship Publication - Excavating a Mid-Iron Age Scottish Archaeological Journal - J. Crouched Inhumations on the Shroes of Loch Archaeology £360 20/02/2019 Mearns Gruinart, Islay, Angus and Bute Society of Antiquaries - Olivia Publication - Knappoch Toll, Balbridie Archaeology £1,400 20/02/2019 Lelong Organisational Support Scottish Civic Trust, Susan O'Connor Scottish Civic Trust £180,600 20/02/2019 Fund 1. Doors Open Day 30 Celebrations 2. Civic Organisational Support Scottish Civic Trust £180,600 20/02/2019 Connections 3. My Place Mentoring Fund - Project Fife Historic Buildings Trust, Lorraine Fife Historic Buildings Trust Resilience Organisational Support £95,300 18/02/2019 Bell Funding Fund Scotland's Churches Trust, Stuart Organisational Support Scotland's Churches Trust £18,000 18/02/2019 Beattie Fund Scotland's Garden and Lanscape Organisational Support Scotland's Garden and Landscape Heritage £5,000 18/02/2019 Heritage, Robert Luther Fund Organisational Support War Memorials Trust War Memorials Trust £91,135 18/02/2019 Fund Grants for Places of All Saints Church All Saints Church, St Andrews £60,100 24/01/2019 Worship Grants for Places of Canongate Kirk Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh £100,000 24/01/2019 Worship GRANTS AWARDED BY HES 2018-19 Recipient Project Scheme Grant Date Grants for Places of St Mary's Eskadale St Mary's Eskadale £131,400 24/01/2019 Worship East Lothain Council Cockenzie CARS £600,290 21/12/2018 Archaeology Scotland - Philip Adopt a Monument Archaeology £325,000 20/12/2018 Richardson Ancrum & District Heritage Society - Ancrum Mantle Walls Archaeology £6,000 20/12/2018 Richard Strathie Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Archaeology Scotland - Dr Archaeological Research in Progress Archaeology £5,000 20/12/2018 Simon Gilmour Loch Lomond & The Trossachs Callander's Cultural Heritage: Skills, Archaeology £64,307 20/12/2018 National Park Authority Engagement &Legacy York Archeological Trust (Northlight Designing Utopia - a Social Archaeology of Archaeology £57,404 20/12/2018 Heritage) - Gavin MacGregor 19th/20th Century Landscapes City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh Lothians & Borders Archaeology Archaeology £1,200 20/12/2018 Archaeology Service - John Lawson Conference Orkney Reserarch Centre for Heart of Neolithic Orkney, World Heritage Site Archaeology £13,811 20/12/2018 Archaeology - Dan Lee Landscpae Project EASE Archaeology - Hazel Langskaill, Westray, Orkney Archaeology £14,000 20/12/2018 Morre/Graeme Wilson University of Glasgow - Tessa Poller SERF Post-excavation Project Archaeology £69,994 20/12/2018 University of Glasgow - Dr Stephen The Galloway Hoard: Its Archaeological Archaeology £31,421 20/12/2018 Harrison Landscape & Historical Context GRANTS AWARDED BY HES 2018-19 Recipient Project Scheme Grant Date Orkney Islands Council, University of the Highlands and Islands - Prof. Tuquoy, Westray, Orkney Archaeology £43,020 20/12/2018 Jane Downes Archaeology Scotland - Eila Understanding Scottish Graveyards & Archaeology £14,300 20/12/2018 Maqueen Gravestone Symbols The Castle Roy Trust Castle Roy HERG £14,627 20/12/2018 AOC Archaeology Group Black Loch of Myrton - Phase 2 Archaeology £119,972 18/12/2018 University of Aberdeen - Gordon Burghead Coastal Erosion Project Archaeology £13,318 18/12/2018 Noble Callander Youth Project Trust - Ross Cultural Heritage Modern Apprenticeship Archaeology £17,983 18/12/2018 Crawford SUERC (Scottish Universities High Precision Palaeoenvironmental Environmental Research Centre)- Dr Reconstruction for the Bronce Age Upland Archaeology £14,735 18/12/2018 Derek Hamilton Expansion around Lairg, Sunderland Orkney Research Centre for Newark Bay Cemetery & Chapel Archaeology £202,891 18/12/2018 Archaeology - Pete Higgins Tarbert Castle Trust Our Castle of Kings Archaeology £5,000 18/12/2018 University of Glasgow - Dr Louise Paints and Pigmentsin the Past: Potdoctoral Archaeology £99,632 18/12/2018 Campbell Fellow in Material Science Chartered Institute for Supporting Scotland's Archaeology Strategy Archaeology £74,495 18/12/2018 Archaeologists - Kate Geary Field Archaeology Specialists Ltd Tarbat Discovery Programme Archaeology £8,688 18/12/2018 (FAS Heritage) - Cecily Spall GRANTS AWARDED BY HES 2018-19 Recipient Project Scheme Grant Date University of Bradford The Knowe of Swandro, Rousay - Phase 2 Archaeology £43,972 18/12/2018 Visualising Drottningen af Sverige: A virtual Douglas McElvogue website tour of the Historic Wreck Queen of Archaeology £18,500 18/12/2018 Sweden Publication - Early Medieval Settlement in Archaeopress Publishing Ltd - David Upland Perthshire: Excavation at Lair, Archaeology £5,386 12/12/2018 Strachan Glenshee 2012-2017 Duart Castle Partnership Duart Castle phases 5-7 HERG £401,724 07/12/2018 Publication - Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - Changing Ideologies in North-east Scotland, Archaeology £5,076 06/12/2018 C. Aitken Sixth to Sixteenth Century AD Publication - Beside the Ocean. Coastal Oxbow Books Ltd. - J. Gardiner Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Archaeology £1,015 03/12/2018 Birsay Bay, Orkney Publication - Interpretation of Mesolithic Prehistoric Society - J. Gardiner Archaeology £645 03/12/2018 Structures in Britain Publication - Neolithic Deforestation and Prehistoric Society - J. Gardiner Archaeology £1,130 03/12/2018 Human Agency University of Bradford Dating in Neolithic Scotland Archaeology £9,860 03/10/2018 Grants for Places of Clark Memorial Church Clark Memorial Church, Largs £81,100 03/10/2018 Worship Donald Macaulay Struan Cottage - Thatching HESF £6,500 31/09/2018 GRANTS AWARDED BY HES 2018-19 Recipient Project Scheme Grant Date The Auchindrain Trust Bell a' Phuill's House HESF £946 28/09/2018 Strathearn Archaeological and Strathearn Archaeology Trail HESF £3,923 28/09/2018 Historical Society Rachel Barrowman Publication - Lewis Chapels Survey Archaeology £400 21/09/2018 Dundee Historic Environment Trust (2018- Dundee Historic Environment Trust City Heritage Trusts £715,000 05/09/2018 2021) Christina and Francis Stuart Moncrieff House - Thatching HESF £12,972 05/09/2018 Orkney Islands Council North Isles CARS CARS £654,328 31/08/2018 Glasgow City Heritage Trust Glasgow City Heritage Trust (2018-2021) City Heritage Trusts £2,500,000 29/08/2018 Penicuik Conservation Area Regeneration Midlothian Council CARS £980,000 21/08/2018 Scheme 2018-2023 Scotland’s Underwater Archaeology Conference will bring together academic, Scottish Universities Environmental commercial and governmental archaeologists Archaeology £2,000 09/08/2018 Research Centre (SUERC) at the forefront of maritime archaeology in Scotland. Venue hire, catering and conf materials Aberdeen City Heritage Trust Aberdeen City Heritage Trust (2018-2021) City Heritage Trusts £866,100 09/08/2018 Stirling City Heritage Trust Stirling City Heritage Trust (2018-2021) City Heritage Trusts £935,000 09/08/2018 Grants for Places of Archdiocese of Glasgow Holy Family and St Ninian's Church, Glasgow £137,000 09/08/2018 Worship Grants for Places of Cadzow Parish Church Cadzow Parish Church, Hamilton £145,900 09/08/2018 Worship GRANTS AWARDED BY HES 2018-19 Recipient Project Scheme Grant Date Grants for Places of Beith Parish Church Beith Parish Church £115,200 09/08/2018 Worship Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust (2018-2021) City Heritage Trusts £715,000 27/07/2018 Edinburgh World Heritage Edinburgh World Heritage (2018-2021) City Heritage Trusts £2,558,000 26/07/2018 Scottish National Museum David Livingstone Centre HERG £629,438 24/07/2018 Built Environment Forum Scotland Scottish Traditional Building Forum HESF £30,000 18/07/2018 Shona Johnson Presenting at 4 day Festival of Ironwork HESF £1,865 18/07/2018
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