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

Legacies in Stone: Connecting Communities with Historic Graveyards

Applicant: Edinburgh World Heritage Trust

Project description: To directly support the conservation of significant graveyards within the Edinburgh World Heritage site. The project also aims to improve the natural landscape of these graveyards and provide new opportunities to access and engage with the city’s heritage.

Decision: Award grant of £108,852 (72%)

Saving Clyde Puffer Steamboat 'VIC32'

Applicant: Puffer Preservation Trust

Project description: To undertake a programme of urgent repairs to the hull plating, propeller shaft and wheelhouse.

Decision: Award grant of £245,537 (88%) 

Young Environmental Stewardship Programme (YES)

Applicant: The Green Team (Edinburgh and Lothians) Limited

Project description: To engage 186 young people in hands-on conservation work and outdoor learning. 

Decision: Award grant of £185,037 (60%) 

"Green Influencers: Young Voices for Nature" 

Applicant: Under The Trees Ltd 

Project description: To strengthen Falkirk’s young resident’s connection to natural heritage through a programme of workshops, volunteering and public events.  

Decision: Reject

Urban Woodland Connections (UWC)

Applicant: The Woodland Trust

Project description: To improve access routes and the quality of Bellsquarry Wood’s, Dean Wood’s and North Wood’s natural environment, while inspiring and encouraging local community involvement in managing sites through upskilling activities.

Decision: Reject 

'Factory Lassies: An oral history of Glasgow's female factory workers'

Applicant: Glasgow's Southside+ Stories

Project description: To capture untold stories of 20th-century women factory workers: their experiences as members of the manufacturing workforce and how these shaped their lives.

Decision: Reject 

Drumming Our History Alive

Applicant: The Economic Forum For Family Empowerment Scotland 

Project description: To provide drumming and cultural storytelling lessons to young Black people. 

Decision: Reject 

We Are Here (A Living Archive)

Applicant: LGBT Youth Scotland

Project description: To preserve the ‘living heritage’ of LGBTQ+ young people in Scotland. 

Decision: Reject 

SupportED – shared stories and heritage of people with eating disorders and their carers

Applicant: The Linda Tremble Foundation

Project description: To recruit a project lead to agree project scope, timing and budget and set up a focus group of people with eating disorders, carers and volunteers to help steer the project. Following this, support groups will be established and stories will begin to be collected.

Decision: Reject 

Living Museum Exhibition Hall

Applicant: Kingdom of Fife Railway Preservation Society (KFRPS)

Project description: To construct a new museum exhibition hall for Levenmouth at the KFRPS Kirkland Yard site. 

Decision: Reject 

Inchgreen Dry Dock Feasibility Study

Applicant: Campaign To Save Inchgreen Dry Dock

Project description: To use funding to carry out a feasibility study with the future intention of restoring Inchgreen Dry Dock.

Decision: Reject 

TUSK – Troon Urban Sports Kommunity

Applicant: TUSK (Troon Urban Sports Kommunity)

Project description: To preserve the heritage of a category B listed former church by transforming it into a community hub with a martial arts and boxing gym and indoor skatepark. 

Decision: Reject 

Restoring Parish Church: A Heritage Home for Faith and Community

Applicant: The Redeemed Christian Church of God – The Potters House Parish

Project description: To allow the church and its congregation to relocate to Meadowbank and Willowbrae Parish Church from their current premises in Niddrie. The project aims to undertake the necessary repairs and conservation works on the building. 

Decision: Reject 

Saved to Save: The Story of Britain's Search and Rescue Helicopters

Applicant: Morayvia

Project description: To design and build a hangar to safely house Morayvia’s collection of Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopters.  

Decision: Reject 

Grant increase

Museum and Activities Redevelopment and Expansion

Applicant: Glencoe Folk Museum 
 
Decision: Award grant increase of £243,440 to make a total grant of £1,643,440