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Inclusive heritage

Heritage has a crucial role to play in contributing to a more equal society – discover how you can open up your heritage to a wider range of people. Photo: We Love Eastbury
Find out more about our inclusion outcome
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Introducing our Dynamic Collections campaign

Throughout 2022-2023 we're supporting museums, libraries, archives and other organisations to become more resilient and open up their collections. Image: International Slavery Museum.
Find out more about Dynamic Collections
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Celebrating two years of Digital Skills for Heritage

We are marking two years of our Digital Skills for Heritage initiative by looking at how far we’ve come, and where we’re going next. Photo: Ripon Cathedral, credit Joe Priestley
Find out how we are helping heritage organisations use digital

Latest news and stories

Exeter Cathedral
Exeter Cathedral has received a £4.3million grant for their 2020s Development Appeal. Credit: Emma Solley

£5.5million awarded to conserve cathedrals and churches across the UK

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Join our Committee for England, Midlands & East

Black Head Cliff Castle
Black Head Cliff Castle, one of the 40 Scheduled Monuments sites

Cornwall’s historic monuments protected thanks to funding partnership

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How to get funding for your idea or project

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How to get funding

We fund projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK.

How to get funding
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How to apply

Our application process is competitive and we cannot fund every good quality application that we receive.

How to apply
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Run your project

Whatever stage you are at, we are here to help along the way.

Run your project
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Promote your project

Getting people to talk about your project is a great way of letting people know what you are doing with your grant. It also shows everyone how National Lottery players' money is being used.

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Our impact
£8.3bn
invested in heritage since 1994
49,000
heritage projects supported since 1994
Created by potrace 1.16, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2019
14,700
volunteers supported through our Heritage Emergency Fund
£3.5m
invested as part of our Digital Skills for Heritage initiative
£4m
invested in business and enterprise development programmes
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Heritage and mental health...

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How the history and landscapes of Burgh Castle in Great Yarmouth have supported people's mental health.

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'A feeling of belonging': heritage and mental health
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Volunteers on the People’s Porpoise Project in Pembrokeshire, Wales got a wellbeing boost from conserving marine life.

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"Worries fade away": volunteering on a wildlife project
Creating a print painting

Director of charity Arts and Minds, Lucy Oliver-Harrison, tells us about the Arts on Prescription project.

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Five ways museums can improve mental health and wellbeing
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Find out how to meet our outcome ‘People will have greater wellbeing’.

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Wellbeing guidance
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