England, London & South: delegated decisions May 2026

England, London & South: delegated decisions May 2026

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Schedule of decisions under delegated powers for England, London & South at The National Lottery Heritage Fund on 6 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

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