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Funding of £170,000 to restore Northern Ireland’s historic churches 30/06/2014 The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is today announcing £170,000 of funding for Northern Ireland’s historic churches, securing the future of two places of worship that are in …

Irreplaceable Troubles collection to be digitised 30/07/2014 Unique holdings of the internationally renowned Northern Ireland Political Collection (NIPC) held in Belfast’s Linen Hall Library are set to be conserved and digitally published after receiving …

Trench in the Park 21/08/2014 It will be held on 30 August at 11am until 4pm in Plean Country Park. The event will commemorate the Centenary of the First World War in which Plean Country Park played a part. The park was used to train soldiers in how to …

Kilfinan Community Forest delivers diverse skills development opportunities 13/08/2014 Kilfinan Community Forest Company (KCFC) ran a six-month ‘Volunteer For Skills’ programme (funded by the Voluntary Action Fund), as well as a four week pilot work …

Plea for wartime memories of volunteer hospitals 31/07/2014 The project, Home Comforts: Red Cross Auxiliary Hospitals in the North Riding 1914-19, is aimed at collecting as much information as possible while memories of the period are still alive and …

Community takes Blackwater River heritage into their own hands 26/09/2012 The project is run by the Blackwater Regional Partnership which is a partnership aiming to improve the environmental, economic and community development of the Blackwater region. …

Local project to examine heritage from pre-history to the 20th century 21/07/2014 A local heritage project will map the history and major stories of Annaclone over thousands of years from antiquity to the 20th century, thanks to £25,000 funding from the …

HLF launches Heritage Exchange 08/07/2014 The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), in partnership with Royal Society for the Arts (RSA), is bringing together for the first time a range of high profile heritage leaders and thinkers on 14 and 15 July to debate the …

New research reveals UK heritage funding in a vulnerable state 11/07/2014 New research published today by New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) reveals that 60% of heritage organisations still rely on grants from funders as their biggest source of income; 21% …

East meets West in festivals 16/06/2009 The East-West Festive Cultures project will study the similarities and differences between festivals comparing, for example, Hallowe’en with Ghost Month, and St Valentine’s Day with the Lantern Festival. The …