A total of £8.6million in National Lottery grants will preserve UK’s industrial heritage, from Newcastle’s Mining Institute to Sherwood Forest’s industrial past

HRH The Prince of Wales has visited a medieval house which is being restored thanks to National Lottery players, and has met the craftspeople whose skills have helped saved the building.

Thanks to National Lottery players, St Fagans National Museum of History near Cardiff in South Wales is currently undergoing the most significant redevelopment in its history, having received £12.5million; the largest grant ever given by HLF in Wales. Now entering the final stages of its innovative

During a recent visit to St Fagans National Museum of History, HLF Chief Executive Ros Kerslake and the Head of HLF in Wales, Richard Bellamy, helped put some finishing touches to a new display.

It's World Biodiversity Day, the perfect opportunity to explore how you can use your garden to support wildlife.

It’s the site of a famous Beatles flour-bombing incident, and suffragettes Vera Holme and Elsie Howey once hid here overnight so they could shout ‘votes for women’ during a speech the next day. Now, Colston Hall is set to become one of the country's best arts and learning facilities.

Baroness Kay Andrews, Chair of HLF in Wales - and an award judge - has welcomed news that the Heritage Angel Awards, which celebrate the unsung heroes of heritage, are winging their way to Wales for the first time.

Wales’s only parish mortuary – or ‘Dead House’ (where bodies were kept in Victorian times before burial) – will be saved from ruin thanks to £50,000 raised by National Lottery players.

Five special places across Wales are celebrating today as they share close to £1.5million of National Lottery money to support their future cultural development.

Three of Wales’s most distinctive and picturesque landscapes are benefiting from nearly £5.5million National Lottery investment.

An animated film about the Newport Gun Girls will be shown at international film festivals around the world this year.

The lively beach, fishing scene and high tidal ranges at popular Welsh tourist destination Porthcawl provide a challenging set of circumstances for emergency and rescue teams.

Thanks to National Lottery players, Porthcawl’s Old Pilot’s Lookout Tower has been given a new lease of life.

Today marks 100 years since women over 30 and all men in Britain were given the right to vote under the Representation of the People Act 1918.

Today a unique opportunity opens for all those who care about the UK’s extraordinary heritage to give their views on the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) plans for the future.

HLF is consulting on its role, vision and funding priorities for the next five years.