England, London & South: delegated decisions March 2026
National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000
Look Back Go Forward
Applicant: ANDFRIENDS PRODUCTIONS CIC
Decision: Reject
Hidden Women: Outcast Series (Richmond)
Applicant: Made Visible CIC
Decision: Reject
Command & Control: Revealing Portsmouth’s Hidden Cold War Bunker – A project to conserve, interpret and share the hidden story of the Fort Widley Civil Control Centre
Applicant: Peter Ashley Activity Centres
Decision: Award grant of £40,500 (95%)
Acquisition of an 18th Century Painting of The West Prospect of Leeds Castle
Applicant: Leeds Castle Foundation
Decision: Award grant of £45,723 (80%)
Roots and Resilience: The Moroccan Journey in Westminster
Applicant: Central London Youth Development Trust
Decision: Award grant of £49,266 (98%)
#HP Health and happiness in our historic gardens phase 1
Applicant: Torbay Council
Decision: Award grant of £56,650 (100%)
Hyperlocal
Applicant: QueenSpark Books Ltd
Decision: Reject
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park Conservation Management Plan Project
Applicant: Cornwall Council
Decision: Award grant of £65,000 (81%)
Somali Intergenerational Heritage Project
Applicant: Education and Skills Development Group
Decision: Reject
The Caribbean Portobello Mural – celebrating the Caribbean legacy in Notting Hill
Applicant: Urban Eye
Decision: Reject
Connected for Change: Building sustainable EDI practice within museums
Applicant: Bristol City Council
Decision: Award grant of £72,500 (75%)
Together Apart: Voices from East London's COVID-19 Experience
Applicant: Eastside Community Heritage
Decision: Award grant of £73,840 (94%)
St Martin-in-the-Fields at 300
Applicant: St Martin-in-the-Fields Trust
Decision: Award grant of £77,200 (87%)
100 Sparks: Recording the Stories of Modern Portsmouth
Applicant: SEEKERS SOCIAL ENTERPRIZE CIC
Decision: Reject
Tides and Tales
Applicant: Take A Part CIO
Decision: Award grant of £85,000 (50%)
Constellations: stories and connections revealed in Fuel’s archive
Applicant: Fuel Productions Ltd
Decision: Reject
History of Rewilding
Applicant: Clapham Film Unit
Decision: Award grant of £88,634 (100%)
REST
Applicant: City of London Sinfonia Ltd
Decision: Award grant of £90,000 (64%)
Beating the Drum for Heritage Music
Applicant: Gallipoli Music Memorial 2015 (GMM2015)
Decision: Award grant of £107,798 (96%)
Arundel Museum, Three Villages Project
Applicant: Arundel Museum Society
Decision: Award grant of £114,500 (91%)
Devon Grows Flax
Applicant: Transition Town Totnes Ltd
Decision: Award grant of £116,448 (100%)
600 Years on Strings: Safeguarding the Art of Marionettes at Little Angel Theatre on our 65th Anniversary
Applicant: Little Angel Theatre
Decision: Award grant of £136,412 (94%)
We Carry History in our Bodies – protecting and activating the archive of Akram Khan
Applicant: Akram Khan Company
Decision: Reject
St Levan Church: Raise the Roof Appeal
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of St Levan
Decision: Award grant of £162,685 (44%)
St Mary’s Church Cowley, Roof Repair
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of Coberley and Cowley
Decision: Award grant of £170,919 (45%)
Bringing New Perspectives: North Korean Oral History and Storytelling Project
Applicant: Connect: North Korea
Decision: Award grant of £187,143 (100%)
Pathways to the Future: Building Sustainability onto Our Foundations – Resubmission
Applicant: Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery Limited
Decision: Award grant of £193,000 (100%)
The House of Words; Preserving History and Enriching Futures
Applicant: Dr Johnson's House Trust Limited
Decision: Award grant of £196,698 (77%)
Somerset Blue Heritage: A Climate Resilience Blueprint for Nature and People
Applicant: The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Decision: Award grant of £226,644 (94%)
Llanthony Secunda Priory: Resilient and Sustainable
Applicant: Llanthony Secunda Priory Trust
Decision: Award Grant of £235,384 (95%)
A New Roof: To protect, preserve and celebrate storytelling
Applicant: The Story Museum
Decision: Award grant of £238,213 (58%)
From Roots to Records: Empowering communities to create, preserve and celebrate South-West Plant Heritage via the RHS Herbarium
Applicant: Royal Horticultural Society
Decision: Award grant of £246,762 (99%)
#HP Paignton Picture House – Audience Development, Outreach and Inclusion
Applicant: Paignton Picture House Trust
Decision: Award grant of £249,127 (96%)
A Space for us Re-focus
Applicant: Somers Town Space Community Interest Company
Decision: Reject
Nature South West: collaborative action for landscape-scale nature recovery
Applicant: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Decision: Award grant of £250,000 (77%)
Preserving Our Parish Pipe Organ: Conservation and Cleaning. Safeguarding Our Parish Pipe Organ for Future Generations
Applicant: Catholic Church Walthamstow Our Lady and St George
Decision: Reject
PSJ War Memorial Trust
Applicant: PSJ War Memorial Trust
Decision: Reject
Brixham Methodist Church – Boiler Replacement Project
Applicant: Brixham Fore Street Methodist Church
Decision: Reject
Oaklore: folk heritage, communal gathering and intergenerational stewardship of our precious historic oaks; growing community connection and ownership to natural heritage at a time of local change and climate uncertainty
Applicant: Richard Chappell Dance CIC
Decision: Reject
Before the Regeneration: A Cultural Archive of Haringey’s Creative Legacy
Applicant: The London DJ & MC Academy CIC
Decision: Reject
Carried Forward: Shared Heritage in Contemporary Britain
Applicant: Yanarai CIC
Decision: Reject
All Saints Church: Heritage and Community Project
Applicant: Parochial Church Council of Maiden Bradley
Decision: Reject
Land and Community
Applicant: Common Flora Ltd
Decision: Reject
Making Moves – A Cultural Taste of our World
Applicant: Kore Development Charity
Decision: Reject
Motorvation: Justice
Applicant: Scary Little Girls Association CIC
Decision: Reject
The Alabaster Lab: The Upper Room & The Aesthetics of Resilience in the Southwark Diaspora
Applicant: Creative Adult Play Time
Decision: Reject
St Mary's Pipedream Project
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish Of St Mary, Thatcham
Decision: Reject
Heritage in Port
Applicant: Vigilance of Brixham
Decision: Reject
Wootton Fitzpaine Village Hall and Social Club – Powering Our Heritage
Applicant: Wootton Fitzpaine Village Hall
Decision: Reject
Harbour Lives: Reviving Charlestown’s Maritime Heritage
Applicant: Charlestown Harbour Ltd
Decision: Reject
Restoration of the Mary Stanford Lifeboat House
Applicant: Friends of Mary Stanford Lifeboat House
Decision: Reject
Living Heritage
Applicant: Union Street Consulting
Decision: Reject
Living and Learning on The Mead
Applicant: Southmead Development Trust Limited
Decision: Reject
Restoring Beckford’s Historic Gardens: Heritage Conservation, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Eco-Tourism
Applicant: THE SECRET GARDEN OF BECKFORD LTD
Decision: Reject
Grant increases
Napper Cottage, Revival of The First Cottage Hospital in England – The Beginning of the NHS
Applicant: Cranleigh Heritage Trust
Decision: Award grant increase of £87,535 to make a total grant of £873,880 (84%)
Survive and Thrive
Applicant: Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Decision: Award grant increase of £157,040 to make a total grant of £408,040. Agree change in grant percentage from 74% to 84%
St Martin’s Church Centre renovation project
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Martin, Liskeard
Decision: Award grant increase of £21,255 to make a total grant of £251,255 (45% of revised costs)
Grant reductions
Hastings Traditional Jack In The Green
Applicant: Hastings Traditional Jack in the Green
Decision: Reduce the grant award from £97,951 (88%) to £78,511 (41%)
Bideford – Retold
Applicant: Libraries Unlimited South West
Decision: Reduce the grant award from £203,195 (93%) to £176,351 (92%)
Grant percentage and approved purposes changes
St Andrew’s Church Spire Conservation
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of the Barnsbury Ministry
Decision: Agree change in grant percentage from 27% to 23%
Revealing Dorset’s Hidden Treasure
Applicant: The Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Decision: Agree change in grant percentage from 56% to 81%
Holy Sepulchre, London: rekindling the past to build our future
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St. Sepulchre Without Newgate
Decision: Agree change in grant percentage to 100% and change to approved purposes
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery roof replacement and reimagining of Victorian Hall
Applicant: The Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Decision: Agree change in grant percentage from 21% to 93% and change to approved purposes