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

Community Gardens and Support Centre

Applicant: Pencoedtre Community School

Project description: This one-year project, based at Pencoedtre High School, Barry, is aimed at developing a community centre and community garden in a former caretaker's house and adjacent school grounds.

Decision: Reject

Saving our native Welsh Mountain Pony. Securing the Welsh landscape of our future and preserving the industrial history of our past

Applicant: Voluntary Action Merthyr Tydfil

Project description: A two-year project (January 2026 to January 2028) that looks to use scientific investigations and community engagement to raise awareness of the plight of the Welsh Mountain Pony and establish it as a registered rare breed.

Decision: Reject

Replace roof of Neuadd Goffa Bodwrog, including new front door and replace four windows

Applicant: Neuadd Goffa Bodwrog

Project description: This is a five-month project to carry out works to replace the roof of Neuadd Goffa Bodwrog, a Memorial Hall in Bodwrog, Llandrygarn, Anglesey.

Decision: Reject

Montgomery 1644: Civil War in the Marches

Applicant: Battlefields Trust

Project description: A proposed three-year project (November 2025 – October 2028) to use the Battle of Montgomery as a catalyst to re-interpret and re-discover the Civil War in a Welsh context. The project is split into three distinct aims; Investigate, Engage and Legacy.

Decision: Reject

Gower Bone Caves – Paviland Reimagined

Applicant: Gower Unearthed CIC

Project description: This is a 14-month project aimed at safeguarding the heritage of the Paviland Cave, Gower, through the creation of a bilingual, interactive educational resource aimed at educating and engaging people with the heritage.

Decision: Reject

Discovery Student Volunteering Swansea 60th Anniversary

Applicant: Discovery Student Volunteering Swansea

Project description: A 14-month project (November 2025 – January 2027) to celebrate the organisation's 60th birthday with a programme of pledges, collection of bilingual stories, curation of the organisation's history and celebration event.

Decision: Award grant of £13,528 (87%)

Dathlu Cerddoriaeth a Cherddorion Traddodiadol Cymru – Championing Welsh Traditional Music & Musicians

Applicant: BLAS CYFRYNGAU CYMRU CBC

Project description: A 12-month project (October 2025 – October 2026) to capture, sustain and celebrate the intangible heritage of Welsh folk music through oral histories, artist collaborations and bilingual broadcasts.

Decision: Reject

The Buckholt Community Archaeological Dig (BCAD)

Applicant: Buckholt Bryngaer CIC

Project description: A six-month project (September 2025 – March 2026) for 20 days of community archaeological excavation by volunteers, with guidance and support from professional archaeologists, across three key areas of ancient heritage in Buckholt Wood, Monmouthshire covering Neolithic, Iron Age and Post-Medieval heritage.

Decision: Reject

'Coalition': A Sustainable Locomotive for Wales

Applicant: Bala Lake Railway Trust

Project description: A proposed 39-month project (September 2025 – December 2028) to restore a narrow gauge electric locomotive to working order and tell the story of electric railway traction in Wales.

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

Lighting up 25 years of Blaenavon's World Heritage (LUWH25)

Applicant: The Hwb Torfaen

Project description: A 30-month project (October 2025 – March 2028) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the inscription of Blaenavon's World Heritage Site status, with a programme of community learning and engagement activities.

Decision: Reject

Cofleidio Cymraeg (Embrace Welsh)

Applicant: Kidz R Us Limited

Project description: A proposed 12-month project has emerged from ideas discussed by this music club, in which its young members expressed a desire to create their own original Welsh songs and performances, and share them with a wider audience.

Decision: Reject

Heritage Forward

Applicant: Arts & Business Cymru

Project description: A two-year project (October 2025 – September 2027) to offer bespoke support to heritage organisations across Wales to help them thrive in challenging times.

Decision: Award grant of £235,000 (86%)

Henry Tudor Centre: Exhibition Fit Out and Community Engagement Programme

Applicant: Pembrokeshire County Council

Project description: This is a 2.5-year project to develop and launch the Henry Tudor Centre in Pembroke. Part of a wider regeneration of South Quay, PCC is refurbishing a Grade II listed building to house the Henry Tudor Centre.

Decision: Award grant of £249,813 (31%)