Sorry I don't really need financial advice thanks, I am quite capable of that and have done plenty of applications in the past
You still fail to realise how grant funding works - it is a multi-million pound project to get something of the scale of the Western Heights off of the ground. 'We' would need to provide a huge amount of match funding (can vary 15-25% of the grant) to get any chance of getting such a grant so we could need to find in the region of £500k-£1m for starters and prove that you can create a future funding stream to safeguard the heritage on an ongoing basis.
And the money comes from.... ???