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The Fusilier Museum secures funding for exciting new development 12/07/2013 A crucial grant of £815,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) will enable the first floor of the museum to be re-developed, creating new learning facilities and events spaces …

York Castle Museum secures investment 09/07/2013 The grant will provide the majority of the funding for a £1.7million project at the museum, which will include a major exhibition on the First World War. This will take place in large new exhibition spaces …

Funding boost for five new NI heritage projects 09/07/2013 This latest investment, made through the Sharing Heritage and Our Heritage grant programmes, will enable local communities across Northern Ireland to get involved in exploring, protecting and …

Thousands attend re-opening of Croydon’s Wandle Park 09/07/2013 The public event follows Croydon Council’s £3.5million transformation of the 123-year-old park that has returned the River Wandle to the surface for the first time in 40 years, brought the …

Detailed plans for Wicksteed Park Lake 09/07/2013 The Kettering park, one of East Midland’s most popular attractions, has been awarded just over £1million (£1,046,900) from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to support the project. The restoration will …

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 …