The Memorial Grant Scheme (MGS) is closed.
The Memorial Grant Scheme (MGS) is no longer accepting applications.
The Memorial Grant Scheme (MGS) is no longer accepting applications. All award decisions within the £150,000 budget for the 2025 to 2026 financial year have now been finalised. If you’re still waiting for a decision on your application, you should receive the outcome by Wednesday 15 April 2026. There will be no further funding rounds.
Other sources of funding for memorials
Although MGS has now closed, other sources of funding are available which you may be eligible for, subject to meeting the criteria:
- grants available from War Memorials Trust
- grants available from Historic England
- grants available from the National Lottery Heritage Fund
- On 9 November 2025, the government announced a funding boost to protect war memorials across the country for future generations: further detail.
Contact us
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will retain data and information about past applications to MGS in line with departmental records policy. These information retention periods begin from the date that a grant application was submitted and last for:
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2 years for grant applications that were not successful
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7 years for grant applications that were successful, payment records and other records related to expenditure of public money
For information about a past grant application that you submitted or about the closure of the scheme, contact:
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
100 Parliament Street
London
SW1A 2BQ
Email: enquiries@dcms.gov.uk
Data privacy notice
Purpose of this privacy notice
This notice is provided to meet our legal obligations as set out in Articles 13 and 14 of UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport’s personal information charter explains how we deal with your information. It also explains how you can ask to view, change or remove your information from our records.
What personal data is
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural living person, otherwise known as a ‘data subject’.
Who your data will be shared with
Your information may be shared internally, including with project staff and managers and IT staff if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles.
We will let you know if we are going to share your personal data with other organisations – and whether you can say no. You can ask us for details of agreements we have with other organisations for sharing your information.
How long your data will be held for
We will retain your personal data for 7 years in line with DCMS retention policy if:
- it is needed for the purposes set out in this document
- the law requires us to
Your data protection rights
You have rights over your personal data under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the supervisory authority for data protection legislation, and maintains a full explanation of these rights on their website
DCMS will ensure that we uphold your rights when processing your personal data.
Complaints
If you’re unhappy with the way we have handled your personal data and want to make a complaint, please write to the department’s Data Protection Officer or the Data Protection Manager at the relevant agency. You can contact the department’s Data Protection Officer using the details below.
The contact details for the data controller’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) are:
Data Protection Officer
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
100 Parliament Street
London
SW1A 2BQ
Email: dpo@dcms.gov.uk
How to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office
If you believe that your personal data has been misused or mishandled, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner, who is an independent regulator. You may also contact them to seek independent advice about data protection, privacy and data sharing.
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Website: ico.org.uk
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Any complaint to the Information Commissioner is without prejudice to your right to seek redress through the courts.
Changes to our privacy notice
We may make changes to this privacy policy. In that case, the ‘last updated’ date at the bottom of this page will also change. Any changes to this privacy policy will apply to you and your data immediately.
If these changes affect how your personal data is processed, DCMS will take reasonable steps to let you know.
This notice was last updated on 31/3/2026.
Updates to this page
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Added information on the closure of the Memorial Grant Scheme (MGS).
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Added notice that all awards within this year’s £150,000 budget have now been allocated to applicants, and the Memorial Grant Scheme for 2025/26 has now closed to new applications.
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Information about funding beyond March 2026 updated
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Updated the deadline for applications to be reviewed in this round of funding to 23:55 on Wednesday 31 December 2025.
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Funding in each financial year total adjusted.
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Application deadline updated to 30 September 2025.
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Deadline for current funding round updated (30 June 2025)
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Updated with deadline for current round of funding (31 March 2025).
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Updated with deadline for current round of funding (31 March 2025).
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Updated deadline for applications in current round of funding (Tuesday 31st December 2024)
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Closing date for applications updated to reflect current funding round (Monday 30 September 2024)
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Added link to online application form.
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Minor change to 'how the funding works' section to reflect change in level of funding available each year.
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Deadline for applications updated to reflect current funding round.
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Updated to reflect change of funding round. The deadline for the current funding round is Friday 29 March 2024.
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First published.