Twelve projects were approved for funding by the board of the Heritage Legacy Fund society when it met in Victoria on May 13, 2011.  The funding is going to many parts of the province, from Atlin in the extreme northwest to Fernie in the southeast. The board was faced with the largest single number of applications to date since the grant program began six years ago.  The requests totaled twice the funds available for the entire year, so...
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Architect Eric Pattison will join the board of the Heritage Legacy Fund of B.C. Society at the next meeting on November 19.  The HLF board has six voting directors, appointed by Heritage BC and The Land Conservancy. Don Tonsaker, a founding member of the board first appointed by Heritage BC in 2004, finishes his final term as of the AGM this fall and Eric will replace him.  The HLF board, among other things, adjudicates applications for...
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This year HLF celebrates it's fifth anniversary. As of the latest meeting in May 2010, the Heritage Legacy Fund has approved 97 grants, spread over 59 communities throughout B.C., for a total of $1.35 million, an average of just under $14,000 per grant. In 2008-09 another $851,000 in grants was made available to 58 projects under the BC150-Heritage Legacy Fund program.On June 29, 2005, the board of directors of the Heritage Legacy Fund of B.C. Society...
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At a meeting on January 29 the board of the Heritage Legacy Fund society (HLF) resolved to continue grant programs in the coming fiscal year, beginning April 1.  Maintenance of the grants programs, which over the past five years have provided $2 million in funding for over 140 projects, will continue despite the fact that the HLF last fall took over financial support of Heritage BC when the provincial government dropped out of the picture. ...
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In September, the Heritage Legacy Fund of BC Society provided emergency funding to Heritage BC which had shut down after the provincial government denied operational funding for the first time in 20 years.  On November 26 the HLF board considered and approved a further application from Heritage BC for operational support, this time for the whole of 2010.Without the support of the Heritage Legacy Fund, Heritage BC would be out of business. ...
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