The National Heritage Memorial Fund

Saving the UK's most important heritage treasures for you, for 45 years.

As a fund of last resort, the Memorial Fund has helped save 1,444 of our most-loved treasures from being lost forever. Taken together, these treasures form a UK-wide memorial in honour of those who have given their lives to the country.

What we fund

The Memorial Fund can help buy anything which is of outstanding importance to the national heritage and either at risk or of memorial character. For example:

  • works of fine or decorative art
  • museum collections
  • archives
  • manuscripts
  • items of transport and industrial history
  • historic buildings and land

Over the last 45 years we have funded some of the most remarkable heritage for the UK public to enjoy and explore. You can find out more about our heritage and the heritage treasures that the Memorial Fund has helped to save on our news page or our project archive.