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.
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Management and maintenance plan guidance for landscapes, parks and gardens
If you are applying for over £250,000 under the National Lottery Grants for Heritage Programme, we will ask you to prepare a management and maintenance plan during your development phase.
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Oral history guidance
Oral history is the recording and archiving of people’s memories, feelings and attitudes.
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Organisational resilience guidance
This guidance is designed to help you meet our outcome: with our investment your organisation will be more resilient.
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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.
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Skills and training guidance
This guidance is designed to help you meet our outcome: people will develop skills through your project.
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Understanding your heritage guidance
This document provides summary guidance about understanding the heritage of your object, place or site.
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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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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.
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Digital guide: an introduction to online accessibility
This digital guide is designed to help heritage organisations make their online content accessible to all.
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Digital guide: getting started with online learning
This guide covers a range of free, easily accessible tools and resources that you can use to create innovative and engaging online learning experiences.
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Digital guide: online privacy and security
Advice and resources to help heritage organisations keep information secure and safeguard people's privacy when working online.
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Digital guide: working safely online with children and young people
This online safety guide has been produced by Childnet International for The National Lottery Heritage Fund.