England, Midlands & East: delegated decisions August 2026
4 August
National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000
Dudley Zoo: 90 years of Community Memory
Applicant: Black Country Visual Arts CIC
Decision: Award grant of £99,127 (100%)
5 August
National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000
Repairs to Chancel roof and to brickwork and roof of Clergy Vestry at All Saints Church Rayne
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of Rayne
Decision: Award grant of £105,504 (56%)
20 August
National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000
Connecting Young People with British Heritage Through Evidence-Led Debate
Applicant: Parallel Histories
Decision: Reject
Oxcombe Woodcraft Centre
Applicant: Oxcombe Woodcraft CIC
Decision: Reject
Segelocum Archaeology Project
Applicant: Segelocum Group
Decision: Award grant of £24,168 (96%)
Purfleet Heritage & Military Centre: Foundation & Preservation
Applicant: Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre
Decision: Award grant of £34,812 (100%)
Shodfriars Hall: A Home for Boston’s Heritage, Creativity and Community
Applicant: Scorer Hawkins SSAS
Decision: Reject
Reel Memories: Scala Worcester—From Cinema Heritage to Digital Futures
Applicant: Scala Arts Centre Worcester
Decision: Award grant of £104,118 (95%)
Reviving the Kursaal: Conserving Southend’s Historic Seafront Landmark
Applicant: Remblance Leisure Limited
Decision: Reject
Ely Church Buildings Maintenance Partnership: Wisbech and West Norfolk
Applicant: The Ely Diocesan Board of Finance
Decision: Award grant of £249,540 (85%)
Birmingham Voices: Living Heritage - Community Stories, Memory and Place
Applicant: VIBRANT VOICES CIC
Decision: Reject
Memorial Gardens Heritage Project: Preserving our past, nurturing our future
Applicant: Friends of the ODA (Oakthorpe, Donisthorpe and Acresford) Memorial Gardens
Decision: Reject
The Church of Saints Peter and Thomas, Wormbridge, Hereford
Applicant: Wormbridge & St Devereux Parochial Church Council
Decision: Reject
Upton Baptist Church – Welcome Home
Applicant: Upton Upon Severn Baptist Church
Decision: Reject
The Shoe & The City: The British Shoe Corporation and Leicester’s Footwear Heritage
Applicant: Nottingham Trent University
Decision: Award grant of £147,984 (99%)
Voices from Dawber Garden
Applicant: Taylor Made Arts LTD
Decision: Award grant of £15,680 (84%)
#HP Walk in my Shoes
Applicant: Pedestrian Ltd
Decision: Award grant of £144,760 (100%)
The Basque Children at Ninety - the lives of the twenty nine refugee children who made their lives in England following their exile during the Spanish Civil War.
Applicant: The Basque Children Association37 UK
Decision: Reject
Give Us a "Little" Lift
Applicant: Leicester Drama Society Ltd
Decision: Reject
Being deaf at Lexden Primary School: The first 50 years
Applicant: The Offshoot Foundation
Decision: Award grant of £51,801 (100%)
Bringing our heritage to life and preserving it for the future
Applicant: 1st Albrighton Scout Group
Decision: Reject
Recounted Chronicles
Applicant: Gospel Link 360 C.I.C.
Decision: Reject
Maintenance/repair of St Botolph's and Promotion of the Murals.
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St. Michael’s and St. Luke’s Beccles
Decision: Reject
The Essex Shire Hall
Applicant: Essex Shire Hall Trust
Decision: Award grant of £150,800 (88%)
From Windmill to World Sharing Alford's Heritage Through Digital Storytelling
Applicant: Alford Town Council
Decision: Reject
Essential roof and masonry repairs to All Saints Church, Hawton
Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of All Saints Hawton With Cotham
Decision: Reject
Punk Voices & Threads: Women's Revolution in Suffolk & Norfolk
Applicant: Take a Deep Breath CIC
Decision: Reject