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Young people lead the way in changing Bradford 08/07/2013 The project has enabled young people from the Manningham Youth Project and Impressions Gallery’s New Focus group to be trained as oral history interviewers. Using audio, film and photographic …

Support for The End of the Shift 08/07/2013 The aim is to record the experiences of folk who worked in past industries of Perthshire and East Fife, such as mills, dye-works, glass-works, factories, quarries and mines and to create a dedicated website as …

Green light to over 100 heritage skills placements 04/06/2013 From digitising archives to identifying species, these work-based training opportunities have been designed to include more contemporary heritage skills, such as using social media and …

Lottery boost for local heritage projects 10/06/2013 Ambitious plans by the friends of Portaferry Presbyterian Church to restore this building were recognised with the award of a £935,700 grant, while ArtsEkta’s project to explore and record the shared …

Touching the Tide secures support 18/06/2013 Touching The Tide is a £900,000 HLF Landscape Partnership Scheme covering 125 square kilometres along the Suffolk coast between Covehithe and Felixstowe. The project is being led by the Suffolk Coast & Heaths …

Grimsby's young people explore why 'Your Country Needs You' 31/05/2013 Led by volunteers from the local community the project focuses on commemorating the young men from Grimsby and Cleethorpes who signed up to fight in the First World War as Grimsby …

£3 million boost for Dorset’s spectacular countryside 18/06/2013 The South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership, made up of 14 local organisations led by the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), is an innovative mix of archaeologists, …

Purpose built Britten-Pears Archive opens at The Red House 14/06/2013 It has been built in the grounds of The Red House, Aldeburgh, the home which Benjamin Britten shared with Peter Pears from 1957 until his death in 1976. The new archive building is the …

HLF website retains high accessibility standards 02/04/2013 The HLF website gained full accreditation from Shaw Trust back in 2011, but the hard work didn’t stop there. With the ever-changing online environment we have been committed to providing a …

Lavenham Guildhall wins lottery support 03/07/2013 The grant is part of a major project to update and redisplay how it tells its story, and how people locally can get involved with its work. The National Trust’s Grade 1 listed Guildhall of Corpus Christi …