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

Saving Wales' Global Culinary Heritage: collecting and recording food culture, stories and recipes.

Applicant: Made in Roath

Project description: An 18-month project (November 2025 – May 2027) to record the food culture through stories and memories of people who seek sanctuary in Wales. The project will produce films, podcasts, interviews and recipe cards.

Decision: Reject

Bridging Worlds: Connecting Communities Through Gower's Heritage

Applicant: The Centre for African Entrepreneurship

Project description: This is a proposed five-year project starting in February 2026 and finishing in January 2031 to capture stories of both local communities in the Swansea and Gower area and refugees and asylum seekers who have made Swansea their home.

Decision: Reject

Revive Murton Green: A New Era of Play

Applicant: Bishopston Community Council

Project description: This is a proposed 18-month project (December 2025 – May 2027) to design and install a new play park and improve drainage on an area of common land in Bishopton on the Gower Peninsula.

Decision: Reject

#HP ABERDULAIS COMMUNITY HERITAGE HUB - Turning a Past into a Future for Non-Traditional Volunteering and Employment in Heritage in Neath Port Talbot.

Applicant: St Giles Trust

Project description: This is a 16-month project aimed at revitalising Aberdulais Falls, in Neath Port Talbot, through community engagement, focusing on non-traditional volunteers, particularly those facing adversity such as poverty, crime and discrimination.

Decision: Award grant of £249,106 (100% of total costs)

Calon Coedlannau - Ailddarganfod llên gwerin ac iaith mewn coetiroedd cymunedol yng Nghymru Heart of the woodlands - Rediscovering lore and language in Community Woodlands in Wales

Applicant: Llais y Goedwig

Project description: This is a proposed three-year project (April 2026 – March 2029) to create a framework to help support community woodland groups re-connect their local communities to their local heritage; to discover, celebrate, interpret and revive interest with wider audiences.

Decision: Reject

Camlas: Ein Llwybr, Ein Llais / Our Path, Our Voice

Applicant: Community Music Wales

Project description: This is a two-year project aimed at reconnecting communities with the shared industrial, cultural and migratory heritage of the Glamorganshire Canal.

Decision: Reject

Cynefin i Gwenynen

Applicant: Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Project description: This is a proposed three-year project (February 2026 – April 2029) to recover five threatened bumblebee species along the Carmarthenshire coast and empower local people to get involved with the conservation process.

Decision: Award grant of £211,770 (66% of total costs)

Prosiect 1176: Dathlu 850 o flynyddoedd ers yr Eisteddfod cyntaf yng Nghastell l Aberteifi

Applicant: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru

Project description: This is a 10-month project, with activity focused on the summer of 2026, that aims to share the history and heritage of the Eisteddfod and its links to Cardigan Castle, Ceredigion, by taking the opportunity to celebrate the 850th anniversary of the first Eisteddfod.

Decision: Award grant of £238,100 (95% of total costs)

A permanent heritage exhibition for Abersoch and the parish of Llanengan, supported by activities

Applicant: Menter Rabar Cwmni Buddiant Cymunedol

Project description: This is a proposed two-year project (July 2026 – July 2028) to create and install a permanent heritage exhibition in Abersoch's former village school based on the archives of the local Parish Heritage Group.

Decision: Award grant of £164,680 (100% of total costs)

Collecting Gower's Placenames.

Applicant: Gower Unearthed CIC

Project description: This is a two-year community project exploring how local language connects people and place.

Decision: Award grant of £16,700 (100% of total costs)

Lle'r Llan Phase 2

Applicant: Lle'r Llan CiC

Project description: This is a proposed one-year project (February 2026 – March 2027) to convert an empty former church in the village of Llan Ffestiniog into a community space and re-connect the village with the building's heritage.

Decision: Reject

Plethu: "Objects, Memories, and moments that Make us."

Applicant: Making Sense CIO

Project description: The project strives to capture and preserve the sensory and emotional memories tied to everyday objects, highlighting the power of heritage objects to evoke precious and forgotten memories and create connections between the past and the present.

Decision: Reject

Keep the Wheel Turning - Talgarth Mill Heritage Project

Applicant: Felin Talgarth Mill

Project description: This is a two-year project aimed at restoring and preserving the Grade II listed Talgarth Mill, South Powys, through repair work and improvements to the building and facilities, garden restoration, community engagement activities and digital and physical interpretation.

Decision: Reject

Water Street to Riverside: Remembering Port Talbot's Town Centre

Applicant: Riverside Baptist Church

Project description: This is a proposed two-year project (March 2026 – Feb 2028) to repair the roof of Riverside Baptist Church and run a series of events recording the heritage relating to the re-development of Port Talbot in the 1960s

Decision: Reject

Grant increases

Llangollen Museum Survival and Heritage Sustainability Programme

Applicant: Llangollen Museum

Project description: This is a 16-month project aimed at ensuring the survival and sustainability of Llangollen Museum and reduce the risk to its collection posed by failing infrastructure

Decision: Agree change in grant percentage from 56.63% to 56.87%