Our funding celebrates the innovative buildings, transport and technology that helped to shape the modern world.
Thanks to National Lottery players, since 1994 we’ve invested more than £520million in thousands of industrial heritage projects across the UK.
We want to help more people conserve their local industrial heritage. Our funding can help pass on to younger generations the skills to look after it.
What do we support?
Projects we fund include:
- printing presses
- pumping engines
- windmills
- historic ships
- locomotives
- natural landscapes transformed by industry
Project ideas
Our funding could help people:
- uncover and record people’s memories of our industrial past
- give a disused site a new purpose
- restore and maintain operating machinery
- reveal the history of industry in your area
- explore the nation's network of canals
- provide staffed visitor facilities and learning resources
- help young people learn new skills and care for their heritage
How to get funding
Find out whether your project is eligible for funding.
Blog
Cromford Mills – making industrial heritage safe
Arkwright Society Chief Executive Sarah McLeod reveals how her team battled paint and poisons to turn Cromford Mills into a cultural centre and tourist hub.
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Diving in to heritage at Pontypridd Lido
Last week the much-loved Pontypridd Lido re-opened after almost a quarter of a century. Our new Head of HLF Wales, Richard Bellamy, explains why its story is so important to him.
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All made up and ready to go: site of world’s first factory to be redeveloped
£12million of National Lottery money awarded to Derby Museums for the creation of the 'Museum of the Making'.
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Great Light is the latest attraction unveiled in Belfast's Titanic Quarter
Visitors to Belfast’s Titanic Quarter can learn more about lighthouses and their role in the maritime and industrial development of the city, following today’s official opening of The Great Light.
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Building maintenance guidance
The best way to tackle the long term care of historic buildings is to concentrate on regular preventative maintenance.
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Volunteers wanted for award-winning coastal project
CITiZAN, launched in 2015, is led by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and supported by the National Lottery. It has seen citizen scientists discovering, recording and preserving fragile archaeological sites along England’s coastline before they are destroyed by erosion. Now the National Lottery
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