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The Future of Our Past 02/03/2011 With a massive £300million annual awards budget to allocate from 2013 to 2019, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is asking people across the UK about its funding priorities for the future.  In addition to consulting with …

Young People Celebrate 100 Years of Scouting 13/01/2011 The young people from 1st Newry (Earl Kilmorey) Scout Group will receive training in a range of new skills, including interview and recording techniques, to enable them to research and record the …

Lottery Grant to ‘Catch’ Lough Neagh Fishing Heritage 17/01/2011 For centuries, hundreds of families have made their livelihood from fishing on Lough Neagh. These families and those from the surrounding shoreline have a unique heritage and distinctive …

Railway Heritage Project Receives Lottery Boost 22/11/2010 HLF awarded a first-round pass* and a £165,500 development grant for the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) proposals which involve a major extension and upgrading of its museum, …

Indian Heritage in Northern Ireland 06/12/2010 The Indian Community Centre of Belfast is preparing to unveil an exciting new exhibition which looks at the lives and experiences of the first generation of Indian immigrants to Northern Ireland. The Indian …

Grant to Restore Rare Literary Gems 06/01/2011 An HLF grant of £50,000 was awarded to the Linen Hall Library to catalogue and restore its ‘Languages of Ulster’ collection, which consists of works in Irish, Scots and Ulster Scots as well as Latin, French, …

Construction Work Starts at Downpatrick and Co Down Railway 15/12/2010 The gallery will house the collection of unique and historic railway carriages, which come from all over Ireland as well as the local Belfast and County Down Railway line.   Attending …

Historic Aircraft Returns to Northern Ireland 15/12/2010 The return of the Canberra PR9 is part of a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) supported project to conserve and explore the heritage of the aircraft, which was manufactured by Short Brothers and Harland …

Volunteer Voices: Celebrating Belfast’s Creative Extremists 03/12/2010 Volunteer Voices, a two year oral and social history project undertaken by VSB (now Volunteer Now) and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, has recorded and preserved the story of …

Grant to Explore Kilkeel’s Maritime Heritage 13/10/2010 The £50,000 grant was awarded to Kilkeel Development Association for the ‘Families at Sea’ project which will record and preserve the histories of local families and their maritime connections. …