Research

This research looks at the impact that our investment has had since 1994 on landscapes, nature and the organisations that champion nature.

Research from Esme Ward, Clore Fellow, into how to best support communities in creating new heritage activity.

To help us plan for the future, we have been finding out what National Lottery players see as priorities for our funding.

Research examining how National Lottery funding has provided for projects that enable, support or follow a community asset transfer.

This report shows that there is a growing deficit between the rising use of parks and the declining resources available to manage them.

Our latest report on the economic impact of heritage-based tourism in the UK.

Research into the heritage sector's interest in non-grant sources of finance, and the attitudes of social investors to heritage organisations.

Research into how commercial businesses based in the historic buildings can be more successful than other commercial businesses.

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.