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The story of us: heritage and communities
Research from Esme Ward, Clore Fellow, into how to best support communities in creating new heritage activity.
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Planning for the future
To help us plan for the future, we have been finding out what National Lottery players see as priorities for our funding.
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Funding for community asset transfer
Research examining how National Lottery funding has provided for projects that enable, support or follow a community asset transfer.
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Social enterprise and rural religious buildings, March 2017
Research to examine whether social enterprise can effectively assist the sustainability of rural places of worship.
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State of UK Public Parks 2016
This report shows that there is a growing deficit between the rising use of parks and the declining resources available to manage them.
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Economic impact of UK heritage tourism economy
Our latest report on the economic impact of heritage-based tourism in the UK.
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Non-grant finance and the heritage sector
Research into the heritage sector's interest in non-grant sources of finance, and the attitudes of social investors to heritage organisations.
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State of UK Public Parks 2014
A study into the condition, quality and resourcing of the UK’s public parks.
Credit: Katomi Creations
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New ideas need old buildings
Research into how commercial businesses based in the historic buildings can be more successful than other commercial businesses.
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Challenge and change, November 2004
In 2004 Demos produced a report looking at the ‘cultural value’ of heritage. The authors distinguished between the intrinsic, instrumental and institutional impacts of heritage, and recommended that HLF needed to take each into account when making grant awards.