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

JOM Charity "Unity in Diversity: Uncovering Scotland's Cultural Heritage"

Applicant: Josephine Oboh Macleod Charity (SCIO) SC048839

Project description: This project aims to celebrate the rich and varied cultural history of Scotland, focusing on oral histories, storytelling, dance, theatre, food, clothes, languages, and dialects. It intends to preserve Scotland’s multicultural identity by celebrating regional and immigrant cultural practices.

Decision: Reject

Towards a Thriving Sector: embedding sustainability in the heritage sector

Applicant: Social Enterprise Academy (Scotland)

Project description: This place-based project seeks to provide small to medium sized heritage organisations based in three separate rural Scottish regions with the framework to develop their sustainability and resilience.

Decision: Award Grant of £230,969 (96%)

Urban Green Links: Innovating Collaboration for Greenspace Networks

Applicant: greenspace Scotland

Project description: This project aims to improve the understanding of the value and benefit of greenspaces in Scotland. The Urban Green Links project seeks to address the risks facing Scotland's urban natural heritage and capitalise on opportunities to enhance these greenspaces.

Decision: Award grant of £212,918 (100%)

Highland and Islands Digital Heritage Network: A National Pilot

Applicant: TheSpace C.I.C.

Project description: This project seeks to support a network of 10 Highlands and Islands heritage organisations in building their digital skills, confidence and capabilities through testing new approaches to engaging new audiences with support from The Space (as the lead organisation), working in partnership with Museum and Heritage Highlands, Google Arts and Culture and digital experts.

Decision: Reject

Bunloit Rewilding Experience

Applicant: The Highland Council

Project description: This project aims to provide multiple-use access by any member of the public via a managed path network to facilitate connection, appreciation, learning and understanding of the natural environment together with the restoration process and its importance in a changing climate, in an area undergoing rewilding in the Scottish Highlands.

Decision: Reject

Fire and Ice: the Story and Heritage of Holyrood Park and Arthur's Seat

Applicant: Dynamic Earth Charitable Trust

Project description: Dynamic Earth seek to position themselves as the visitor centre for Arthur’s Seat and the wider Holyrood Park. The project aims to expand Dynamic Earth’s offering by creating an exhibition and planetarium show which will tell the story of the Park and highlight the site’s scientific, natural and cultural heritage.

Decision: Reject

Imagine a City: Glasgow since WW2

Applicant: The Planning Exchange Foundation

Project description: The project aims to highlight and document people's experiences and knowledge of the history of Glasgow after the Second World War, and how it is impacting modern Glasgow today.

Decision: Reject

Our Voice, Our Space

Applicant: One Community Scotland

Project description: This project aims to be a transformative, youth-centric project focused on empowering young people of African descent to celebrate their cultural heritage while integrating into Scottish life.

Decision: Reject

Glasgow Wild Spaces

Applicant: Butterfly Conservation

Project description: This project seeks to diversify the urban environment of the Glasgow City, by creating and encouraging the creation of Wild Space for butterflies, moths and other pollinators

Decision: Reject

Restoration of 1650 Cromwell Harbour, Dunbar

Applicant: Dunbar Harbour Trust

Project description: This project seeks to undertake repairs to the East Pier of Dunbar’s Cromwell Harbour, a category B listed structure, which sits within the Dunbar Burgh Conservation Area.

Decision: Reject

'Marmite Housing' – Memories of Glasgow's Postwar Housing Developments'

Applicant: Glasgow Story Collective

Project description: The project aims to create a public archive which records the lived experience of Glaswegians who moved into new housing developments in the post-war period.

Decision: Award grant of £63,999 (97%)

Echoes of the Past – Unveiling Malls Mire's Heritage

Applicant: The Urban Roots Initiative

Project description: This project seeks to celebrate local heritage by recording community stories and reinstating lost boundary stones, while also interpreting the natural history within its industrial context. A new heritage trail will bring the site’s history to life for residents and visitors.

Decision: Reject

Fuaran

Applicant: Fèisean nan Gàidheal

Project description: This project aims to contribute to the preservation and revitalisation of traditional Scottish Gaelic heritage. It seeks to engage young Gaelic speakers aged 16–25 with tradition bearers, archives and other resources to collect and engage with local heritage material and ensure it remains live within communities.

Decision: Award grant of £93,849 (92%)