England, London & South: delegated decisions May 2026
National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000
Clock refurbishment and maintenance
Applicant: Bartley Village Hall Charitable Trust
Decision: Reject
Virtual Visits to Hoar Oak Cottage
Applicant: Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage
Decision: Award grant of £17,441 (100%)
How We Lost America
Applicant: Aurora Metro Arts & Media Ltd
Decision: Award grant of £22,300 (100%)
“Urban Forest” as part of the Urban Tree Festival
Applicant: Urban Tree Festival
Decision: Reject
Whitchurch School Heritage Programme
Applicant: Whitchurch Conservation Group
Decision: Award grant of £31,838 (100%)
Archives of a Crescent
Applicant: Cut Moose
Decision: Award grant of £40,472 (99%)
Notting Hill Carnival 60: Remember and Connect
Applicant: More Curricular CIC
Decision: Reject
Breaking Boundaries: Hidden Histories of Women’s Rugby in the South & South West
Applicant: Ignite Your Power CIC
Decision: Award grant of £52,550 (100%)
The Burundian, Rwandan, and Ugandan Traditional Marriage Culture
Applicant: Fort-4-Youth Foundation
Decision: Reject
Legacy of Notting Hill Carnival
Applicant: Junto Projects CIC
Decision: Award grant of £85,800 (93%)
Preparing to Launch
Applicant: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Decision: Award grant of £94,930 (98%)
Bubbles and Squeaks
Applicant: Emerald Ant CIC
Decision: Award grant of £99,918 (85%)
Securing the Future of Sandys Row Synagogue
Applicant: Foundation for Jewish Heritage
Decision: Award grant of £145,092 (78%)
Lymington Sea Water Baths restoration project
Applicant: Lymington and Pennington Town Council
Decision: Award grant of £154,800 (78%)
Eco-Genetic Fingerprinting for Living Sea Walls using Environmental DNA
Applicant: Our Only World
Decision: Reject
Shakespeare’s Globe Research and Collections: London’s only cultural heritage centre for Shakespeare
Applicant: The Shakespeare Globe Trust
Decision: Award grant of £189,416 (100%)
St John of Jerusalem: celebrating 200 years
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John of Jerusalem With Christ Church, South Hackney
Decision: Award grant of £192,647 (97%)
Developing a Place-Led Transformation at Brooklands Museum
Applicant: Brooklands Museum Trust Limited
Decision: Award grant of £194,500 (93%)
Coastal Pasts – Connecting Community with Coastal Heritage at Sandwich Bay
Applicant: Nautical Archaeology Society
Decision: Award grant of £199,060 (90%)
Our Space
Applicant: Torbay Community Development Trust Ltd
Decision: Award grant of £217,339 (100%)
Chisenhale Dance Space – An Evolving Legacy of Independent Dance
Applicant: Chisenhale Dance Space
Decision: Reject
Afghanistan’s Threads of Resilience: Safeguarding Afghan and Central Asian Heritage in the UK
Applicant: Afghanistan & Central Asian Association (ACAA)
Decision: Reject
Saving Lives Together: 150 Years of Community First Aid
Applicant: St John Ambulance
Decision: Award grant of £240,026 (100%)
Safeguarding St Edmund's Church Chingford for the Future: building, people and place
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Saint Edmund, Chingford
Decision: Award grant of £240,844 (50%)
SHAPE@50 – Breaking Barriers for Fifty Years: the five decades and five themes heritage story of how disabled-led Shape reached millions and helped open up society through pioneering disability awareness, visibility, rights, arts and culture for 50 years
Applicant: Shape London
Decision: Reject
#HP Medway Heritage Place: staff resource and sector development
Applicant: Medway Council
Decision: Award grant of £249,997 (100%)
Prospect Cottage Lived Histories
Applicant: Creative Folkestone
Decision: Reject
The Restore Project, St John the Baptist, Old Malden
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Baptist, Malden
Decision: Award grant of £250,000 (68%)
Generations at Play: Sharing Kidbrooke Memories, An Intergenerational Oral History Project
Applicant: Kidbrooke Games Club CIC
Decision: Reject
Global Edo Cultural Convergence – Rebuilding Heritage, Empowering Identity
Applicant: Villa5 Lens & Legacy CIC
Decision: Reject
Luckington Church WC project
Applicant: PCC of St Mary with St Ethelbert Luckington
Decision: Reject
Hikes and walks
Applicant: Oxford Women Community CIC
Decision: Reject
Reviving Victorian British Angling Culture through Traditional Fly-Tying
Applicant: Aristocrat Fly Fishing & Heritage Fly Tying CIC
Decision: Reject
St James Chapel
Applicant: Okehampton United Ecclesiastical Charity
Decision: Reject
Restoration of St Gregory's Dawlish
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Dawlish
Decision: Reject
Sterts 40 at 40
Applicant: Sterts Arts and Environmental Centre
Decision: Reject
Roots of the Agĩkũyũ
Applicant: Emmanuel Celebration Centre
Decision: Reject
Harry Edwards Visitor Centre
Applicant: The Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary
Decision: Reject
Creative Voices
Applicant: The Creative Hearts CIC
Decision: Reject
Trethurgy China Clay Valley: Revealing the Original Workings at Ennals Pool
Applicant: Ennals Pool Conservation Initiative
Decision: Reject
Outwood Windmill: Restoring Britain's Oldest Working Mill
Applicant: Charlotte and Alex Rodrigues
Decision: Reject
Barrel Children 2: Echoes of Separation
Applicant: Brixton Heights CIC
Decision: Reject
Phased restoration of Otford Palace Tower
Applicant: Archbishop's Palace Conservation Trust
Decision: Reject
Restoration and Renewal: Equipping Temple Church for the 21st Century
Applicant: Temple Church Trust
Decision: Reject
Behind Closed Doors: The Hidden Domestic Heritage of Muslim Women in East London
Applicant: Zaytunah
Decision: Reject