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

White Yet Glen pathway

Applicant: Balfron Pathways

Project Description: This project aims to improve the access to a countryside looped walk which connects two parts of the community along the river and old mill lade, providing an opportunity to better understand the local natural and cultural heritage.

Decision: Reject

The Granny Tree Project

Applicant: Darroch Nurseries Ltd

Project Description: This project seeks to create a thriving, supported and long-lasting Scottish Small Tree Nursery Network; easy access to knowledge and skills for growing and planting native, local provenance trees and a diverse and resilient social enterprise that's rooted in the local community and place.

Decision: Reject

100,000 Stories: History, Herstory, Ourstory

Applicant: Deepness Ltd

Project Description: This project aims to record and share the memories and experiences of people suffering with dementia across Scotland and work with local artists to use their stories as inspiration for a creative response.

Decision: Reject

A walled garden where people and plants grow

Applicant: Cambo Heritage Trust

Project Description: This project aims to carry out necessary capital repairs and replanting activity to Cambo Walled Garden, part of Cambo Estate. This will be a community space where volunteer training programmes can help people to develop skills in the heritage garden.

Decision: Award Grant of £51,474 (28%)

Shame Parade: Exploring Charivari Heritage

Applicant: Icky Arts C.I.C.

Project Description: This project aims to fill the gap in research on Charivari in Scotland and support LGBTQ+ participation in the heritage sector.  With support from Historic Environment Scotland and Edinburgh Museums & Galleries, Icky Arts will undertake historical research on Charivari practice before producing artistic responses to the heritage and developing an immersive touring exhibition alongside public engagement.

Decision: Award Grant of £15,265 (30%)

Remixing the Scottish Music Archive

Applicant: Scottish Music Information Centre Limited

Project Description: This project aims to preserve Scottish Music Information Centre’s (SMC) archive as well as making it more accessible to the public to improve engagement with the collection.

Decision: Reject

My Heritage, My Community

Applicant: The Venture Trust

Project Description: This project aims to foster a sense of inclusion, community and pride in Scotland’s heritage among vulnerable people who have experienced trauma, poverty and adversity. By engaging people in activities at significant heritage sites, the project seeks to strengthen their connection to Scotland’s rich historical, cultural and environmental legacy.

Decision: Reject

Building Traditional Capacity

Applicant: Jhankar Beats SCIO

Project Description: This project aims to hold regular Classical Kathak Indian dance workshops, providing young people with an opportunity to connect with the culture and heritage of South Asia. This will help participants build their self-esteem / self-confidence, enabling them to better understand the history and traditions of this culture.

Decision: Award Grant of £116,426 (100%)

Victoria Park Community Trust Tree Survey

Applicant: Victoria Park Community Trust

Project Description: This project seeks to appoint an arboriculturist to survey the trees, assess health status and risks, create a schedule of required remedial works and make recommendations on the future management of Victoria Park, underpinning the future of the trees in this historically important park.

Decision: Award Grant of £19,250 (100%)

Urgent Remedial work on the Old Corn Mill, Bunessan

Applicant: Ross of Mull Historical Centre

Project Description: This project aims to fund urgent emergency remedial work on the walls of the 18th century corn mill in Bunessan, Isle of Mull, so that the structure is secure and safe for visitors to enter.

Decision: Award Grant of £33,888 (57%)

Harry Hornby's Paisley: Capturing Vanished Histories

Applicant: Paisley Heritage SCIO

Project Description: This project aims to preserve and share the rich, often overlooked history of Paisley’s changing urban landscape. By digitising the Hornby photographic archive and collecting oral histories from older residents, the project seeks to connect visual records with lived experiences, creating a more complete, community-driven account of the town’s past. 

Decision: Reject

A Resilient Scottish Zine Community

Applicant: Glasgow Zine Library, SCIO

Project Description: This project aims to preserve the library collection and make Scotland’s zine heritage accessible to a wider audience.

Decision: Award Grant of £74,821 (62%)

The Kilmory Cruisle Project (KCP)

Applicant: Arisaig Community Trust (ACT)

Project Description: This project seeks to restore, improve and maintain Kilmory Old Chapel and Graveyard in Arisaig.

Decision: Reject

Kinlochard Community Land Purchase

Applicant: Kinlochard Community Residents Association Ltd.

Project Description: This project aims to support the acquisition of The Field, a 27-acre area of land within Kinlochard Village, as well as enabling the restoration of the biodiversity of the site with native broadleaf trees.

Decision: Award Grant of £192,040 (49%)

Caring for the Art in Healthcare Collection: ensuring its future and continued role in supporting the health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland

Applicant: Art in Healthcare

Project Description: This project aims to focus on the conservation of artworks that are currently in storage, enabling them to be put on display around Scotland for those in health and social care settings to engage with.

Decision: Award Grant of £84,569 (83%)

Rousay's Historical Dig Sites at Westness

Applicant: Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Heritage SCIO

Project Description: This project aims to increase awareness of the Skaill and Swandro dig sites and deliver events to complement summer excavations for the improvement of visitors’ and locals’ understanding of their importance and the time periods they cover.

Decision: Award Grant of £10,502 (100%)

The George Cecil Ives Queer Legacy Project

Applicant: Sanctuary Queer Arts CIC

Project Description: This project seeks to empower unprecedented access to at-risk queer cultural heritage and reanimate LGBTQ+ archives around the UK, engaging the public in social reflection, providing them with tools to record their own experience.

Decision: Reject

A Fund for Scotland's Rainforest

Applicant: The Woodland Trust

Project Description: This project aims to develop the framework for a cross-sector approach to corporate and individual philanthropic partnership fundraising. The Woodland Trust will work with funders to identify the tools and mechanisms needed to access and distribute private investment across landscape-scale projects.

Decision: Reject