Acknowledging Your Historic England Grant and Communicating Your Project

You should plan how to communicate your project from the start and speak to us before making any announcements.

The Public Engagement Manager in your local office can advise, guide and support you to achieve effective communications throughout your project. It's a good idea to draw up a communication plan with us at the outset and keep it updated as the project progresses. We can provide a communications toolkit for you to use.

If your project covers England or more than 1 region, our Media Managers will work with you on your communications.

You should acknowledge your Historic England funding in all press, television and radio interviews and press releases.

You should work with your Public Engagement Manager or Media Manager if you plan to issue a press release, hold a press call, or conduct television or radio interviews. Press releases must be agreed with us in advance, and we should be offered an opportunity to give a quote and participate in interviews.

We can offer tailored support to help you engage with the media, including preparing and issuing press releases in partnership with you.

Where possible, you should acknowledge your Historic England funding in online coverage such as local community websites or blogs and social media posts. You can find more details about how to do this in our communications toolkit.

Please make sure we have agreed on the timing and wording of social media announcements, especially confirmation of your grant.

Let your Public Engagement Manager or Media Manager know if you plan any significant Twitter, Instagram or Facebook activity so that we can support you via our social media channels.

a) On-site signage during site work

Where the project involves on-site work such as repairs or excavation you may wish to acknowledge our support while work is in progress. Signage should be displayed alongside the signboard that carries the contractors' and/or professional adviser's signs, or on the site hoarding.

You can produce site signage yourself using our logos and brand guidance. Where the site signage is being designed from scratch please include a Historic England logo in the design. You should follow our brand guidelines. All artwork should be approved by us in advance.

b) On-site explanatory material during site work

Site work can attract considerable interest. This is a good opportunity to display publicity, educational material or an information board about the project. If you do, you should include a Historic England logo in the design. Again, you should follow our brand guidelines and agree on the text and artwork with us in advance.

c) Permanent on-site signage

We may ask you to install a permanent sign as a condition of the grant. You will be advised early on in the project if this is required. Permanent signage may simply record Historic England's role in the project or could provide information about the significance and interest of the site.

We will work with you to produce permanent signage. You may need to commission specialist input to research and prepare any text and we will need to approve artwork and branding in advance. We will also be able to advise whether permanent signage will require listed building consent or scheduled monument consent.

All published reports should include appropriate acknowledgement of Historic England funding. A logo should be placed on the back cover of all publications except journal articles. Journal articles should acknowledge our funding in the text as follows: "This project has been supported by Historic England." This includes electronically published reports and articles.

A logo should also be used on any other form of printed or electronic material, including but not limited to leaflets, newsletters, educational materials and guidebooks.

You should acknowledge Historic England funding at any event funded by us or related to a project supported by us. Please use a logo on invitations and publicity material and mention our support in speeches or presentations. You should let us know when all events are taking place well in advance as we may wish to send representatives or suggest guests.

You should state Historic England's involvement if you are advertising for a post which will be directly supported by our funding. This applies to print and online media.