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

BWMI Male & Female Fully Accessible Toilets.

Applicant: Broughton War Memorial Institute

Project description: The month-long project aims to increase accessibility of Broughton War Memorial Hall by creating accessible toilets alongside better facilities for use by the general public.  

Decision: Reject

The history and heritage of Dowlais Community Centre

Applicant: Stephens and George Centenary Charitable Trust

Project description: This is a proposed year-long project (September 2025 to September 2026) to revitalise the railway building into an educational and cultural hub with an emphasis on community engagement.

Decision: Reject

Afro Fiesta

Applicant: Wrexham Africa Community CIC

Project description: This is a three-month project, based in Wrexham, that aims to celebrate African heritage and strengthen community connections in the area.

Decision: Reject

Capel Rhondda: Restoration, Faith, and Cultural Renewal

Applicant: Syro Malankara Catholic Church UK

Project description: This proposed one-year project (September 2025 to August 2026) is to purchase Capel Rhondda, restore it and establish a permanent home for the Eastern Catholic Faith community in south Wales.

Decision: Reject

Patchwork Futures

Applicant: Megan's Starr

Project description: This 19-month project, starting in August 2025, will enable disadvantaged, neurodivergent and NEET young people to explore and celebrate Pembrokeshire's cultural, industrial and natural heritage through the medium of textile art and holistic therapy.

Decision: Reject

Cynefin i Gwenynen

Applicant: Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Project description: This three-year project focusing on bumblebee conservation will conduct activities, such as wellbeing safaris, events, talks, workshops and planting / shrub clearance activities with an aim to involve 2,330 people in these activities.

Decision: Reject

This is Me

Applicant: Cwm Taf People First

Project description: This is a proposed one-year co-production and co-designing project (July 2025 to June 2026) to explore what it means to be Welsh and have a learning disability; record, showcase and celebrate their heritage and culture and work with stakeholders to improve accessibility.

Decision: Reject

Denbigh Museum at the Buttermarket (part of the larger project the Buttermarket Culture, Heritage and Wellbeing Centre)

Applicant: Denbigh Museum / Amguddfa Dinbych

Project description: This is a proposed one-year project (August 2025 to July 2026) to relocate and re-interpret DM's collections and archives in a new home with the aim of securing both them and the organisation for the future, increasing visitor numbers and widening engagement with local heritage.  

Decision: Award grant of £164,921 (98%)

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

Applicant: Making Sense CIO

Project description: This is a proposed one-year project to create a permanent memory collection (casgliad cof in Welsh) of everyday items from the 1950s to 1980s to use as reminiscence resources for people affected by dementia.

Decision: Reject

Ceredigion Museum Makeover 2026: finding new stories and fresh voices in Ceredigion's collections  /  Gweddnewid Amgueddfa Ceredigion 2026 - chwilio casgliad Ceredigion am chwedlau a lleisiau newydd

Applicant: Ceredigion County Council

Project description: This is a one-year project aimed at revamping Ceredigion Museum's displays and creating opportunities for under-served communities to participate in shaping these displays.

Decision: Award Grant of £72,350 (29%)

Our past, their future

Applicant: Royal Mencap Society

Project description: This is a 2.5-year oral history project that will capture the stories of parents of children and adults with a learning disability, and parents who themselves have a learning disability in Wales, over the past fifty years.

Decision: Reject