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Good practice guidance

Guidance to help you plan and deliver your heritage project.

Take a look at the guidance we've provided to help you along with your project. Whether you need support with meeting our outcomes, grant applications or establishing your own objectives, everything you need to get you started is listed below.

Inclusion guidance

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Guidance for Inclusion

This guidance will help you address our inclusion priority in your project. It is for everyone applying for a grant, regardless of the size or type of organisation you represent or the amount you are requesting.
Wellbeing guidance

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Wellbeing guidance

This guidance will help you address the outcome ‘People will have greater wellbeing’ in your project. It is for everyone applying for a grant, regardless of the size or type of organisation you represent or the amount you are requesting.
Visitors in a museum

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Local economy guidance

This guidance is designed to help you meet our outcome: how your project can boost your local economy.
Groups of people using a park in a variety of ways, including rowing, listening to music and sitting on a bench

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Local area guidance

This guidance is designed to help you meet our priority outcome: the local area will be a better place to live, work or visit.
Young people taking part in heritage wood working

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Activity plan guidance

An activity plan sets out everything you will do as part of your National Lottery-supported project to achieve positive outcomes for the people involved.
Two people look out over a balcony towards a natural vista

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Area-based schemes and area action plans

We recommend that you read this guidance in full before submitting your project enquiry or expression of interest and before filling in your application form.
Two people wearing hard hats, goggles and high vis tops, holding troughs

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Building maintenance guidance

The best way to tackle the long term care of historic buildings is to concentrate on regular preventative maintenance.
Three people smiling whilst pointing at a book

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Evaluation guidance

How to carry out an evaluation of your National Lottery-funded project.
Two people stand in front of a colourful wall, one looks at the other who is looking at the camera

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Oral history guidance

Oral history is the recording and archiving of people’s memories, feelings and attitudes.
Landscape vista with water in foreground, an island in the middle of the water, and mountains in the background

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Nature and landscapes guidance

This guidance is to help you design and deliver projects involving work or activity linked to habitats, species, landscapes, geology or the ecosystems of which they are part.
Group of people holding tools outdoors, looking towards camera and smiling

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Volunteering guidance

Volunteers play important roles in many of the projects we fund, and have contributed to all sorts of activities.

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