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£3.8m Heritage Lottery Fund grant to restore historic steam tug-tender The Daniel Adamson 12/02/2015 Coming over 30 years after the vessel was taken out of service and 11 years since she was saved from the scrapyard by local campaigners, HLF’s investment …

The return of Hayle 12/02/2015 Lifelong resident Trevor Smitheram reflects on how investment in Hayle’s historic foundry has sparked the revival of this once 'down and out' Cornish mining town. In its heyday, the port of Hayle was an industrial powerhouse …

Grant success for the oldest Methodist building in the world Staff and volunteers from the New Room celebrate the grant success 12/02/2015 The historic 276  year-old Grade I listed building, in The Horsefair, is known as 'the cradle of Methodism'. In …

Compton Verney secures Heritage Lottery Fund support The Compton Verney Landscape Restoration Project – an aerial view 10/02/2015 The project aims to preserve, restore and celebrate an outstanding ‘Capability’ Brown park, which includes a rare, …

Celebrating LGBT History Month in Manchester The April Ashley exhibition at The Museum of Liverpool 10/02/2015 The festival will celebrate the lives and achievements of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, their history, their diversity and …

Celebrating LGBT history April Ashley, one of the first people in the world to have gender reassignment surgery 12/02/2015 It’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) History Month and Manchester is holding the first ever national festival focused on the …

Lottery grant boost for Boston's heritage Boston Market Place, Lincolnshire, 1950s 10/02/2015 Boston Borough Council, working in partnership with Heritage Lincolnshire, has received initial support for a Townscape Heritage bid from the Heritage Lottery …

Heritage is Good for Business with multi-million town centre investment announced Aerial view of Paisley town centre 10/02/2015 Three towns which are putting heritage at the heart of their town centre regeneration strategy – Govan, Paisley and Fraserburgh …

£19.3m Lottery investment to help regenerate 13 towns and cities Wisbech High Street Project, Cambridgeshire, East of England 10/02/2015 This money will encourage effective partnerships between local authorities and small businesses so that repairs and …

The Whitworth reopens following a £15million transformation of the gallery Inside the Whitworth Alan Williams 09/02/2015 The redevelopment, which has been supported by a major Heritage Lottery Fund grant, The University of Manchester and other funders, …