The best way to tackle the long term care of historic buildings is to concentrate on regular preventative maintenance.

This guidance provides advice and ideas on ensuring the environmental sustainability of National Lottery projects.

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.

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.

Our researchers analysed grant award data from 1994 to March 2017. They also interviewed 20 key stakeholders from across the UK who have an interest in landscapes and nature. The aim of this research was to explore the strategic impact that HLF investment has had on landscapes and nature. It will

We are committed to supporting projects that are environmentally sustainable and take steps to minimise the use of resources and avoid negative impacts for the environment, where possible.

Our latest State of UK Public Parks 2016 report updates the previous study undertaken in 2014. What does the research show? This second State of the UK Public Parks report shows that there is a growing deficit between the rising use of parks and the declining resources that are available to manage