North East

Our funding will support 10 exciting projects as part of the wider North Shields 800 programme, conserving and sharing the town’s past, present and future.

Focused on a National Landscape and a UNESCO Global Geopark, this project will reconnect and enhance important habitats across County Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland.

Over the next five years the Red Squirrel Recovery Network will work to protect and conserve populations of red squirrels in the north of England and southern Scotland.

Led by Trees for Cities, this project focuses on restoring Hartlepool's natural heritage by addressing the urgent need for increased tree canopy cover in the city.

This project will transform the Grade I listed historic landmark into a thriving cultural hub and visitor destination.

A state-of-the-art visitor attraction and community engagement scheme celebrates the historic Stockton and Darlington railway line.

A £5.7million Heritage Fund delivery grant is helping to reverse the decline of some of the UK’s most important natural landscapes in the north of England.

Mount Oswald, a Grade II Listed manor house, has been transformed into The Story, a new visitor attraction celebrating the heritage of County Durham.

This project will safeguard an industrial heritage archive by developing new ways for the Amber Film & Photography Collective to become financially sustainable.