National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000

We are Witham - Witham Past, Present, and Future

Applicant: The Witham Hall Ltd

Project description: To hold community-led heritage events to revitalise engagement with the Witham’s 180-year legacy in County Durham.

Decision: Award grant of £229,800 (90%)

Durham Museum of Archaeology: Connecting Communities with Durham's Archaeological Heritage

Applicant: Durham University

Project Description: To transform the Museum of Archaeology to improve accessibility and reduce environmental impact including working on removing barriers to participation and refreshing displays to share underrepresented stories.

Decision: Award grant of £217,844 (90%)

A Pick, The Pike and A Pear Tree

Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Cuthbert, Dufton, in the Diocese of Carlisle

Project description: To transform St Cuthbert’s Church into a resilient community landmark, safeguarding over a thousand years of worship, craft and memory in one of England’s most remote rural parishes and to hold inclusive engagement sessions.

Decision: Award grant of £202,680 (85%)

Empowerment Skills for Success (ESS)

Applicant: Mountmove CIC

Project description: To reconnect Sheffield’s younger generation with their heritage through a 12-week period of workshops developing skills and recording oral histories from older Sheffield residents to be turned into podcasts, blogs and videos to be shared online and preserved in Sheffield’s archives.

Decision: Award grant of £29,700 (100%)

The Lost Flowers - recovering the stories of the Collinson watercolours

Applicant: Newcastle City Council

Project description: To open access to the Collinson collection ‘Flora of Northumberland and Durham” at Newcastle City Library and use it to inspire and support participants to take practical steps around re-wilding and nature recovery. It will also preserve the collection through documentation and digitisation.

Decision: Award grant of £45,896 (99%)

Roots and Horizons

Applicant: Building Bridges in Burnley

Project description: To explore the 25-year heritage of Building Bridges in Burnley alongside the British Legion Club, including working towards a digital archive to preserve and improve access and to achieve greater organisational sustainability.

Decision: Award grant of £185,454 (71%)

Connecting Fragments: unearthing and sharing global majority heritage in Rotherham

Applicant: Dig Where You Stand CIC

Project description: To preserve and share the hidden heritage of Rotherham’s ethnically diverse communities through combining archival research with decolonial practice and creative interpretation.

Decision: Reject

The History of Leeds and District Amateur Rugby League

Applicant: Looking Back CIC

Project description: To tell the story of amateur rugby in Leeds by collecting and collating a record of the history of amateur clubs building an accessible online museum, with training workshops to upskill volunteers.

Decision: Reject

The Jules Anneessens Organ Restoration, Sacred Heart Church, Redcar

Applicant: Middlesbrough Diocesan Trust (Blessed Nicholas Postgate Parish)

Project description: To restore the 1923 Jules Anneessens organ to share the organ and organ music with the local community.

Decision: Award grant of £30,371 (73%)

The African Root's Project

Applicant: West African Development

Project description: To develop a series of events, activities and workshops to help further the understanding of African culture and heritage to improve community cohesion in Tameside.

Decision: Award grant of £149,000 (100%)

#HP Making the Invisible Visible – Celebrating the global legacy of Rod Temperton, 'The Invisible Man', through music heritage, archives, and community led participation

Applicant: The Culture House CIO

Project description: To celebrate Rod Temperton, ‘The Invisible Man’ in the music industry and his legacy in Cleethorpes by delivering activities and educating the community about his music and his work.

Decision: Reject

Witch! Unpacking hatred and Promoting Tolerance, Inclusion and Sustainability in our Modern World

Applicant: Broadside Creatives

Project description: To preserve and share the history of the North East Witch Trials through research, interactive workshops and community engagement.

Decision: Award grant of £120,960 (95%)

CIRQUE-US

Applicant: Newcastle Circus Arts CIC

Project description: To empower young people to discover and investigate circus heritage through hands-on research, creative interpretation and public sharing, resurfacing circus heritage from the North to connect and reinterpret stories through new works and collections.

Decision: Award grant of £32,670 (84%)

Yiddishkeit, Discovering and Collecting Songs and Stories from a Lost World

Applicant: Another Space Limited

Project description: To deliver an oral history and cultural project based on recollections of Holocaust survivors and their second and third generation families, to discover and identify what Yiddishkeit influences have been handed on.

Decision: Award grant of £60,950 (86%)

Snaith Museum & Archive

Applicant: Snaith Museum and Archive Group

Project description: To preserve, share and celebrate the town of Snaith’s rich heritage and establish a permanent, community-led museum and digital archive that is freely accessible to the public.

Decision: Reject

The Lost Flavours of Igboland

Applicant: Elevators

Project description: To preserve endangered culinary heritage, strengthen intergenerational connections and make heritage accessible to wider audiences through a programme of intergenerational and creative activities based in Oldham.

Decision: Award grant of £28,910 (100%)

Deighton's Heritage - A Carnival Legacy

Applicant: Local Services 2 You Ltd

Project description: To capture and preserve Deighton Carnival’s heritage through documenting the carnival’s oral heritage, organisational background, musical traditions and broader community impact.

Decision: Award grant of £96,923 (100%)

Framing the Future

Applicant: York Conservation Trust Ltd

Project Description: To shape the future of Herbert House, York Conservation Trust and York’s historic timber-framed buildings to enable wide-ranging public engagement ahead of the major refurbishment of Herbert House.

Decision: Reject

The National Centre for Folk and Fable - Connecting Cultural Chronicles - the stories that bring us together in a world that often sets us apart

Applicant: Grimm and Co. Limited

Project description: To place heritage stories at the core of the Festival of Stories, as well as spotlight Rotherham's intangible heritage and celebrate cultural tales playing a prominent role in Rotherham’s legacy as the first Children’s Capital of Culture. It will also support making Grimm & Co’s Emporium of Stories the National Centre for Folk and Fable.

Decision: Award grant of £247,505 (96%)

By George....the Railway 200 series

Applicant: Northern & Southern Reaches Restoration CIC

Project description: To publish a series of chapter books with the purpose of inspiring young people to connect with the heritage and historical significance of the railways.

Decision: Reject

Safeguarding Crook's Heart: Community Centre for the Next Century

Applicant: Crook Community Association

Project description: To transform Crook Community Centre into a hub, including completing repairs to the building and improving accessibility, therefore safeguarding its heritage, boosting community engagement and strengthening resilience.

Decision: Reject

Community Heritage Programme

Applicant: Two Ridings Community Foundation

Project description: To support a variety of grassroots heritage projects in North and East Yorkshire through a community heritage grants programme to develop the cultural and environmental heritage in the region.

Decision: Reject

AMEN SAM ROMA/ WE ARE ROMA

Applicant: European Drom C.I.C.

Project description: To run a campaign showcasing the resilience, achievements and contributions of Roma individuals throughout history and showcasing an exhibition in schools in various cities across the UK as well as, to hold celebration events and run a digital campaign.

Decision: Reject

Slow the Flow – the next chapter

Applicant: Slow the Flow

Project description: To educate people about the Upper Calder Valley’s distinctive flood-prone landscape including a heritage flood trail to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2015 Boxing Day floods.

Decision: Reject

Heritage and Harmony: Life Skills across Cultures

Applicant: Audley Centre CIC

Project description: To hold a 15-week programme to deliver targeted workshops on financial literacy, debt management, fraud prevention, mental wellbeing and drug awareness.

Decision: Reject

Leyland Royal Tiger Doyens

Applicant: Julie Aylward

Project description: To move two Leyland Buses, which are some of the last of their kind, to an alternative restorer and restart work on securing and repairing these.

Decision: Reject

The Old Changing Rooms at Carr Lodge Park

Applicant: Friends of Horbury's Parks

Project description: To revitalise the old changing rooms building at Carr Lodge Park to offer secure and low-cost storage for local groups as well as host a pop-up café.

Decision: Reject

New Beginnings

Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Christleton

Project description: To complete work on the church including internal alterations to make the meeting space larger and an extension to provide kitchen and toilet facilities to improve engagement.

Decision: Reject

Heritage Without Barriers: Sensory Access, Stories, and Inclusion at Castlegate Quay

Applicant: Anchoreach C.I.C

Project description: To co-design and deliver a multi-sensory walking trail, creative workshops and heritage experiences that are accessible and showcase the industrial, maritime and working-class heritage of Castlegate Quay.

Decision: Reject

West Africa Heritage Voices and Legacies

Applicant: The Widows Empowerment Trust

Project description: To turn the ten recorded oral histories on grief, mourning and widowhood traditions from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cameroon and Senegal into permanent public resources and to hold lively community engagement.

Decision: Reject

The Hidden Heritage Project

Applicant: Climb4 Limited

Project description: To work alongside children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to gather lived experiences and personal stories to reflect their place in local history in North East Lincolnshire and to uncover and share hidden heritage of the local SEND community.

Decision: Reject

Priceless! Connecting Intangible Cultural Heritage of the people with their local Natural Landscape Heritage

Applicant: Harwes Farm CIC

Project description: To deliver a variety of events and to conduct environmental research that focuses on intangible cultural heritage, and natural landscape heritage in Pendle that work towards long-term care for the land as well as to improve relationships in the local community.

Decision: Reject

A Proud Legacy: Resisting Erasure by Preserving and Celebrating Manchester's LGBTQ+ Histories. Empowering LGBTQ+ young people through heritage, workshops and resources.

Applicant: The Proud Trust Ltd

Project description: To strengthen social connections, improve access to safe spaces and remove barriers that prevent LGBTQ+ individuals from fully accessing their community’s heritage through interactive workshops, resources and heritage activities.

Decision: Reject

Tatton Park Heritage Playground Project

Applicant: Cheshire East Council

Project description: To revitalise Tatton’s ageing playground by embedding heritage themes inspired by the Japanese Garden, co-created with local schools to enhance visitor experience, celebrate the site's legacy and support long-term sustainability through increased engagement and access to heritage.

Decision: Reject 

Grant increases

Forging a Future

Applicant: Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum

Project description: To build on capital investment, helping the organisation to achieve future stability, economic sustainability and aid their transition into a centre for national and international research.

Decision: Award grant increase of £33,305 to make a total grant of £277,623 (100%)

Stricklandgate House for Sustainable Heritage (SGH4SH): Where heritage meets the day-to-day

Applicant: Stricklandgate House Trust Ltd.

Project description: To conserve the currently decaying Grade II listed Stricklandgate House as a heritage and community hub for Kendal's communities.

Decision: Award grant increase of £66,813 to make a total grant of £334,275 and agree change in grant percentage from 84% to 85%