England, London & South: delegated decisions March 2026

England, London & South: delegated decisions March 2026

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Schedule of decisions under delegated powers for England, London & South at The National Lottery Heritage Fund on 11 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 

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