1 July 

National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000

BBAM 2026 Prototype Cultural Villages: African & Caribbean Living Heritage

Applicant: TUVAA CIC

Decision: Reject

GDA Heritage Tea Party (Archive Project)

Applicant: Gloucestershire Deaf Association

Decision: Reject

Shared Intergenerational Roots: Surrey's Living Heritage

Applicant: Intergenerational Music Making

Decision: Reject

Dolemeads at 125 years old – the first council housing in Bath

Applicant: Widcombe Association (Dolemeads)

Decision: Award grant of £30,250 (100%)

Tim & Barry – Digitising the Hidden Archive of UK Underground Culture

Applicant: Don't Watch That CIC

Decision: Award grant of £39,780 (89%) 

Keeping St Meubred’s Bells Ringing

Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of Cardynham

Decision: Award grant of £55,830 (61%)

Wetwheels Solent Maritime Heritage Project

Applicant: Wetwheels Solent CIC

Decision: Reject

Save the Roof of St Peter's, Little Cheverell

Applicant: St Peter's, Little Cheverell PCC

Decision: Award grant of £88,777 (61%)

In Their Own Words: The story of the Child Health profession in the UK

Applicant: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Decision: Reject

Women’s Stories of Migration in Bristol

Applicant: Acta Community Theatre Ltd

Decision: Reject

The People’s Mosquito: Saving Skills, Stories and Living Heritage

Applicant: The People's Mosquito

Decision: Award grant of £102,080 (100%) 

Inherited Strength: Black Women, Survival & Heritage

Applicant: LWS Bakery CIC

Decision: Reject

Clean Steam: Powering the Next Chapter of Industrial Heritage

Applicant: The Kew Bridge Engines Trust & Water Supply Museum

Decision: Award grant of £120,972 (100%)

Restoring the built and natural environment of Bentley Priory Park

Applicant: Harrow Heritage Trust

Decision: Award grant of £124,743 (100%) 

KJH2030 From Crises to Confidence – planning for a sustainable future for King John’s House Museum

Applicant: The King John's House and Tudor Cottage Trust Ltd

Decision: Award grant of £137,500 (74%)

Speaking Our Minds: MindOut 25+ Years and LGBTQ Mental Health

Applicant: MindOut LGB&T Mental Health Project

Decision: Award grant of £139,081 (100%)

Making Spaces: Digitally Performing and Preserving the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Diaspora Faith Communities

Applicant: University of Westminster

Decision: Reject

Bringing wildlife and people back to Van Demans Meadow

Applicant: Swallowfield Parish Council

Decision: Award grant of £153,503 (100%)

Seasons of Migration: Preserving Middle Eastern New Year Traditions in Newham

Applicant: Rosetta Arts CIO

Decision: Award grant of £158,454 (99%)

Nympsfield Village Hall Heritage Restoration

Applicant: Nympsfield Village Hall CIO

Decision: Reject

Resilient Heritage: Securing East Dorset’s Stories

Applicant: The Priest's House Museum Trust

Decision: Award grant of £175,622 (80%)

Preserving Braziers Park and Unlocking our Story

Applicant: Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research

Decision: Reject

Streetwise Opera 25: A Living Archive (2002-27)

Applicant: Streetwise Opera

Decision: Award grant of £189,389 (90%)

Footprints for the Future: Revealing Britain’s Hidden Mammals

Applicant: Wildwood Trust

Decision: Award grant of £225,357 (99%) 

Cornerstone: Race, Housing and Community Power in Britain

Applicant: Olmec

Decision: Award grant of £235,000 (100%)

Acton Access: Signs, Stories and Skills

Applicant: London Transport Museum Limited

Decision: Award grant of £237,067 (96%)

The Joiners: Securing a Community-Owned Music Heritage

Applicant: Music Venue Properties Limited

Decision: Award grant of £238,540 (51%)

The Redesdale Hall – Phase 2, Raising the Roof

Applicant: Redesdale Hall Trust

Decision: Award grant of £238,730 (34%)

The Level Community Gym Project

Applicant: Brighton & Hove City Council

Decision: Reject

Engaging Children and Local Communities in Heritage – through the use of map-based educational resources (“Engagement in Heritage through Maps”)

Applicant: The Historic Towns Trust

Decision: Reject

Helping communities live-well – one hundred years of heritage

Applicant: Kingsley Hall Church and Community Centre

Decision: Award grant of £248,692 (86%)

Bridging the Gap: Making Swanage Railway fit for the future

Applicant: The Swanage Railway Trust

Decision: Award grant of £249,080 (91%) 

The Anniversary Project: 160 years of the Howard League for Penal Reform

Applicant: The Howard League for Penal Reform (Incorporating the Howard Centre for Penology)

Decision: Reject

Creating a National Migration Collection

Applicant: Migration Museum Project

Decision: Reject

Birnbeck Transition

Applicant: North Somerset Council

Decision: Award grant of £250,000 (93%) 

The Agnes Yewande Savage Archive: Matriarchal Lineage and Diasporic Heritage

Applicant: Zita Savage

Decision: Reject

Ignatius Sancho – Minuets & Dances for 2 Recorders

Applicant: Banbury Early Music Festival 

Decision: Reject

Our Language, Our Heritage, Our Future – this reflects the project’s long-term vision to preserve cultural identity and ensure that heritage languages and traditions remain visible, valued, and actively passed on to future generations

Applicant: Light-Legacy Ltd

Decision: Reject

The Future of Millinery

Applicant: Maxim Collection London CIC

Decision: Reject

Carnival Pioneers: The Notting Hill Big Blue Plaque Project

Applicant: Nubian Jak Trust

Decision: Reject

Rite to Freedom Legacy Archive 2008-2024

Applicant: Creative Pathways - Nature. Arts. Wellbeing.

Decision: Reject

Lynher: A Working Heritage Returns to Plymouth Waters

Applicant: Lynher CIC

Decision: Reject

Heritage Digital Strategy Accelerator (HDSA)

Applicant: Charity Digital Trust

Decision: Reject

Rural Roots: Connecting Young People to Land, Skills and Heritage

Applicant: Made-Well CIC

Decision: Reject

Heritage Square

Applicant: The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy Charitable Trust

Decision: Reject

Handmade Dreams – a heritage programme within The BFG: Giant Dreams

Applicant: Artichoke Trust

Decision: Reject

Securing Blake Cottage’s Future & Celebrating William Blake’s 2027 Bicentenary

Applicant: The Blake Cottage Trust

Decision: Reject

27 July

National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000

Remembering Operation Frankton, The Cockleshell Heroes at 85

Applicant: Pompey Pals Project

Decision: Reject

Winchcombe Pottery: Something of Real Value – A Centenary Scoping Project

Applicant: Winchcombe Pottery Limited

Decision: Reject

Over 100 Years of Bangla Newspaper History in Britain: Preserving the Legacy of Bangla Journalism (1916-2022)

Applicant: Easthands

Decision: Award grant of £64,042 (93%) 

Voices of the Albanian Diaspora: Preserving Migration Stories in Enfield

Applicant: Nene Tereza

Decision: Reject

Migration Tales: Preserving Stories of Identity Through Southwark’s African and Caribbean Fashion and Textile Heritage

Applicant: Parent Skills 2 Go

Decision: Award grant of £142,667 (93%)

Roof and Window Restoration, St John’s Parish Church, Paignton

Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Paignton

Decision: Award grant of £148,600 (91%)

Arundells: Exploring the Past, Building our Future

Applicant: The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation

Decision: Reject

Re-roofing of St Winwaloe’s Church, Tremaine, Cornwall

Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of Tremaine

Decision: Award grant of £160,833 (93%)

Timestretch Reading

Applicant: Readipop

Decision: Award grant of £173,684 (89%)

Discover Islamic Art

Applicant: The Barakat Trust

Decision: Reject

All Saints Isleworth Drawn Together

Applicant: All Saints Isleworth

Decision: Award grant of £201,224 (89%)

130 Years of Service: Safeguarding the Legacy of JLGB

Applicant: Jewish Lads' & Girls' Brigade

Decision: Award grant of £223,050 (75%)

#HP Oldway Collection Review

Applicant: Torbay Council

Decision: Reject

Roots & Resonance: Windrush Heritage and Black British Culture

Applicant: Hidden Me CIC

Decision: Reject

WoodCulture

Applicant: Neroche Woodlanders Limited

Decision: Reject

Dominion Centre Heritage Project: Repair, Reveal and Reconnect

Applicant: Universal Prayer Group Ministry

Decision: Award grant of £248,191 (62%)

Morris Today: Improving Access, Engagement and Sustainability at the William Morris Gallery

Applicant: London Borough of Waltham Forest on Behalf of William Morris Gallery

Decision: Award grant of £248,330 (100%)

Saving the Stables: Acquiring and reconnecting the original stables to our town house heritage centre, to establish a fully sustainable project.

Applicant: The Brunswick Town Charitable Trust

Decision: Reject

Shillingstone Station Canopy Roof Conservation Project

Applicant: North Dorset Railway

Decision: Reject

Paddock Wood In Living Memory

Applicant: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council

Decision: Award grant of £157,458 (100%)

Material Legacies: Counter-Mapping North Kent's Industrial Heritage Through Cement, Rope and Gunpowder

Applicant: Cement Fields

Decision: Reject