Board meeting: March 2024

Board meeting: March 2024

Schedule of decisions from the Board of Trustees meeting in March 2024.

National Heritage Memorial Fund

CAF: Emergency Repairs to Save Torre Abbey

Applicant: Torbay Council

Decision: Award grant increase of £120,000 to make a total grant of £483,748 (73.4%)

Saving Mavisbank House

Applicant: The Landmark Trust

Decision: Award grant of £5,300,000 (67.95%)

National Lottery Heritage Fund – over £5m development round cases

Transforming Heritage: Community, Creativity & Skills 

Applicant: Rother District Council

Decision: Award a development grant of £229,258 (29%) and a potential delivery grant of £7,646,425 (29%)

The Abbey of St Edmund: A Millennium of English History in West Suffolk

Applicant: The Cathedral Church of Saint James and Saint Edmund, Bury St Edmunds

Decision: Award a development grant of £729,553 (90%) and potential delivery grant of £6,651,313 (74%)

Project Safe Haven

Applicant: The Unicorn Preservation Society

Decision: Reject

Building capacity to save Scotland’s rainforest 

Applicant: The Woodland Trust

Decision: Award a development grant of £686,768 (84%) and potential delivery grant of £5,980,530 (74%)

The Redevelopment of Amgueddfa Lechi Cymru, Llanberis 

Applicant: National Museum of Wales

Decision: Award a development grant of £412,565 (44%) and potential delivery grant of £9,440,414 (90%)

Wisdom begins with Wonder at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium: Where the past meets the future

Applicant: Armagh Observatory and Planetarium

Decision: Award a development grant of £1,323,381 (25%) and potential delivery grant of £4,941,166 (12%)

Creative Archives / Archifau Creadigol 

Applicant: Flintshire County Council

Decision: Award a development grant of £177,000 (26%) and potential delivery grant of £7,194,397 (59%)

National Lottery Heritage Fund – Heritage Horizons (development grant increase)

HHA2019 International Slavery Museum: Igniting Ideas and Actions 

Applicant: National Museums Liverpool

Decision: Award grant increase of £288,352 to make a total development phase grant of £3,247,252

National Lottery Heritage Fund – grant increases

Remaking Beamish 

Applicant: Beamish Museum

Decision: Award grant increase of £1,000,000 to make a total grant of £12,866,700

Orkney Native Wildlife Project 

Applicant: RSPB Scotland

Decision: Award grant increase of £2,518,766 to make a total grant of £6,750,166

Exeter Cathedral – the 2020s Vision. Phase 1 – Investing in our Welcome 

Applicant: Dean & Chapter Exeter Cathedral

Decision: Award grant increase of £2,920,100 to make a total grant of £7,210,600

Ipswich Museum – inspiring a new generation 

Applicant: Ipswich Borough Council

Decision: Award grant increase of £1,362,496.40 to make a total grant of £5,687,296.40

Stori Brymbo: A 300 Million Year Journey

Applicant: Brymbo Heritage Trust

Decision: Award grant increase of £3,388,616 to make a total grant of £7,535,816

National Lottery Heritage Fund – Strategic Initiatives (Heritage Places)

Sauchiehall Street: Culture and Heritage District 

Applicant: Glasgow Life

Decision: Award grant of £350,000 (70%)

Three items yet to be announced.

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