Scotland

Ray Macfarlane will join the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Board as the Scotland Trustee on 1 April 2019.

Three new galleries at the National Museum of Scotland opened to the public this week. It marks the completion of a 15-year, £80million redevelopment, creating one of the world’s finest museums.

Thanks to funding raised by players of the National Lottery, the 200-year-old venue now has modern facilities and new spaces including a creative learning studio, café and bar, relocated box office and a new performance space. After significant excavations, three new lifts have been installed to

The distinctive landscape of the Elan Valley is one of three projects in Wales set to benefit from its share of more than £6m worth of investment.

October sees the country mark Black History Month. Find out how to get involved!

Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund are investing £34m in some of the UK’s most precious, yet tired green spaces.

V&A Museum of Design Dundee has today been awarded an additional £4.5m by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) at a meeting of its UK Board. The funding is in addition to the grant of £9.4m (of which £8m was for capital) awarded in January 2014.

This coming week, The National Lottery turns 20. As part of these celebrations, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is looking back at the achievements of its innovative Landscape Partnership programme.

To date, HLF has funded Landscape Partnership projects in Scotland covering an area seven times the size of the Isle of Skye. Two hundred square kilometres, on the edge of the Cairngorm National Park - an area famous for its distilleries - is the latest to benefit from this innovative approach to landscape conservation.

Today, the community history website Historypin launched its new First World War Centenary hub at a special event in the Houses of Parliament hosted by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).

It is 100 years since the First World War began. To mark the Centenary, thousands of people across the UK are uncovering, exploring and telling the stories of the First World War, and in many cases, sharing them online. It’s important that these stories are not forgotten. They are being preserved