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Mary Stevens Park transformation moves closer 20/12/2010 Dudley Council’s £1.9m Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the BIG Lottery Fund (BIG) bid has been given a first round pass* and the funding body has granted £116,100 development funding for the …

New exhibition in former hospital ward will celebrate history of medicine 19/01/2011 A new permanent exhibition, celebrating the history of medicine, is being created in a ward of the former Worcester Royal Infirmary, to be called Museum@WRI. The British …

Regal Cinema celebrates Christmas with funding win 22/12/2010 The news will be warmly welcomed by Tenbury Town Council and the cinema volunteers, who have campaigned passionately to see the Grade II listed Art Deco building restored and conserved. Unlike …

Plans to save Castle Drogo a step closer thanks to funding 22/11/2010 This first-round pass award means that the National Trust can progress to the second stage of the HLF application process, where they will be seeking £2.5million of HLF support towards …

Olympic Re-launch for Chesil Beach Centre 31/01/2011 This gives the go-ahead for the £1m redevelopment of the existing interpretation room, kiosk and public toilets to provide exciting new interpretation facilities, education space, indoor café, forecourt …

Heritage Lottery Fund helps canal tunnel project set sail 04/10/2010 Development funding of £118,000 has been awarded by HLF to help progress the plans. The first-round pass* means that the trust can now progress to the second stage of the HLF application …

More than £2.4m for South East historic places of worship 17/02/2011 The grants were awarded under the organisations’ joint Repair Grants for Places of Worship scheme.* Nationally, since 2002, almost £140 million of grants have been awarded for more than …

The Sky's The Limit 18/01/2011 The Real Ideas Organisation (RIO) has been successful in its first-round* bid to restore the Devonport Column as part of the continued regeneration of the Devonport area. RIO has been awarded £21,000 by the Heritage Lottery …

£2.8m to Torre Abbey 25/01/2011 This award will fund the second phase of the Torre Abbey’s restoration programme, which will extensively conserve the medieval ruins, cloister wall and other key parts of the building - essential to prevent further …

Heritage Lottery Fund award gives Trenance Cottages a new lease of life! 06/10/2010 Trenance Cottages were built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and provided homes for local families until the 1960s. From the late 1970s the building was turned …