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National Trust delighted at support from HLF to restore Croome Court 27/07/2010 The  Heritage Lottery Fund have as part of the initial support provided a £15,000 development grant which will enable the National Trust to trial new ideas such as using guest …

Community volunteers and schools to unearth Bredenbury history 31/03/2010 Bromyard and District History Society along with community volunteers and 2 local schools will take part in the venture. Preserved within the landscape are earthworks relating to a …

Thinktank Plans Win Heritage Lottery Fund Support 25/01/2010 Having been awarded a Development Grant of £105,000 to work up plans for the full award, the project will create a new exhibition celebrating ingenuity and innovation in Birmingham. The exciting …

Heritage Lottery Fund to restore Elford’s ‘lost garden’ 19/01/2010 The walled kitchen garden and gardeners cottage is all that remains of the Georgian Elford Hall estate, built in approximately 1825 by Henry Bowes, Earl of Berkshire and Suffolk. Remaining …

Methodist ‘cathedral’ makeover 06/10/2009 Stoke-on-Trent’s former Methodist chapel, known locally as the ‘Cathedral of the Potteries’, is to begin the second phase of its restoration, thanks to a grant of almost £375,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund …

Birmingham – a city in the making 20/11/2009 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) has been awarded £4.8m by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) towards the £9.7m ‘Birmingham – A City in the Making’ project. The money will go towards the development of an …

Walsall Arboretum receives £4.7m New Year boost 11/01/2010 The planned refurbishment, to be carried out under the Parks for People programme*, has been widely supported by the Arboretum User Group, the Council and the wider community, and will now become …

Royal West of England Academy to be transformed thanks to £350,000 21/07/2010 The award will fund the restoration and transformation of the main galleries, including the introduction of new environmental controls so that the academy can display more of …

More than £1.57m for West Midlands 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 £140million of grants have been awarded for more …

Heritage Lottery Fund helps to expose Braunton’s 'hidden' history 04/05/2010 The full story of how American troops were trained for the largest amphibious assault in history will be told for the first time by a project lead by Braunton and District Museum …