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Balsall Heath launches diamond jubilee 12/09/2012 The Balsall Heath Local History Society will be getting local people to come up with ideas about which objects will best tell the story of this inner city area. Balsall Heath has a very diverse population …

Memories of south Wales’ Jewish communities shared at Cardiff exhibition 07/09/2012 The exhibition, which comes as a result of a three year project, shares the lives and stories of 60 members of the Cardiff Reform community and reflects on how their …

£1.29million to regenerate the historic townscape of Ballymoney 11/10/2012 Last year the HLF approved Ballymoney Regeneration’s initial proposals to regenerate buildings within Ballymoney Conservation Area, and following 12 months of detailed development …

Pitt Rivers Museum wins Heritage Lottery Fund support of over £1million 15/10/2012 A £1.6million project in total, VERVE will fund vital conservation, sensitive refreshment of displays and much-improved case lighting, alongside a wide-ranging programme of …

Boost for Flow Country peatland restoration 11/10/2012 Flow to the Future is an ambitious plan, co-ordinated by the Peatlands Partnership, to restore seven square miles of globally important peatlands (blanket bog) in Caithness & Sutherland. This will …

Hyde Park's Speakers’ Corner gets its lively voices on record and into the classroom 16/10/2012 This volunteer-led project will preserve and celebrate the heritage of Speakers’Corner from 1866, when the Reform League tore down the gates of Hyde Park, to …

Broad horizons for the narrow gauge 08/10/2012 The Alston, Cumbria based South Tynedale Railway has received initial support for a £3m Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) bid, including £93,600 development funding, towards a new three-year development and …

British Postal Museum & Archive secures initial support from Heritage Lottery Fund 09/10/2012 Initial HLF support has been granted for an application of £4.25million and development funding of £250,000 has been awarded. The new Postal Museum & Archive …

New exhibition of sculpture from Bardney Abbey 05/10/2012 Around the year 675 King Æthelred of Mercia founded a monastery at Bardney. He was to become its Abbot and was buried there when he died. Æthelred arranged for the bones of St Oswald to be …

Putting Bailiffgate Museum at the heart of the community 02/10/2012 The grant will help fund an exciting volunteer-led project that will rejuvenate the museum and its current collections – helping to put it at the heart of the community of Alnwick and the …