Blogs
How to engage young and diverse audiences with your archives
Shjodi Ison shares her experiences of joining a Heritage Fund project as an apprentice, the positive impact of inclusive recruitment and how it has given clarity to her future.
Some of the team stand in front of the newly completed roundhouses.
Photo: The Scottish Crannog Centre.
Stories
Case study: The Scottish Crannog Centre
The local community and natural environment are central to this sustainable museum, joint winner of Sustainable Project of the Year at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024.
Meet the Changemakers event on Manchester Museum Top Floor. Credit: Manchester Museum.
Stories
Case study: Roots and Branches
Joint winners of the Sustainable Project of the Year Award at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024, Manchester Museum and Museum Development England, share their tips for growing a Carbon Literate museum community.
Learning at The Leach Pottery. Credit: © Ellen Love.
News
£7.6million awarded to unique museums around the UK
From iconic football shirts to the world’s first deep-sea diving helmet, we’re supporting projects to share rare historic objects with the public.
Liverpool Record Office.
News
Partnership unlocking the UK’s archives awarded £5million
This is one of our biggest investments into archives this century, made possible by National Lottery players.
News
Joint winners announced for Sustainable Project of the Year 2024
The Scottish Crannog Centre and Manchester Museum and Museum Development England's North team were crowned sustainability award winners at the 22nd annual Museums + Heritage Awards.
News
Six organisations shortlisted for Sustainable Project of the Year 2024
The Museums + Heritage Awards have announced the shortlist for the sustainability category. Discover how these projects are demonstrating best practice.
Reimagine, Remake, Replay is a Kick the Dust programme that ran in Northern Ireland.
Blogs
Techniques for supporting young people's wellbeing during heritage projects
How Kick the Dust projects worked to create high quality environments for participants.
RSPB Belfast Window on Wildlife is offering free entry.
Credit: Brian Morrison.
News
Hundreds of special heritage offers across the UK this spring
National Lottery Open Week is back, taking place from Saturday 9 to Sunday 17 March.
Pride celebrations on the Isle of Wight.
Photo: Héctor Manchego.
Stories
LGBTQ+ heritage organisations share their advice on how to run great projects
We’re proud to be supporting projects that are saving the heritage of the LGBTQ+ community and sharing these stories to build understanding and inclusion.
Helen Featherstone.
Photo: Roth Reed.
Blogs
A year as Director of England, North: resilience and saving heritage
Our Director of England, North Helen Featherstone reflects on her first year in the role, the needs of heritage organisations in the North and our commitment to supporting resilience.
Punk: Rage & Revolution takes home the England Project of the Year Award.
Credit: Alex Wilkinson Media.
News
Success for heritage projects in the National Lottery Awards
Leaders from six projects we’ve funded have taken home a prize this year.
A 1991 group photo of disability arts practitioners. David Hevey is standing fifth from the right in the second row.
Photo: NDACA.
Blogs
Sharing radical heritage demands a radical approach
Shape Arts’ passionate director, David Hevey, is taking a disruptive, digital approach to sharing disabled people’s voices with the world.
Participants at the residential event in June 2023, as part of Heritage Trade Up.
Photo: School for Social Entrepreneurs.
Stories
Five tips for more robust and innovative heritage organisations
Hear from the organisations who took part in our Business Support and Enterprise campaign about how they improved organisational resilience in challenging times.
Videos
Esther Fox is the National Lottery Awards Heritage Winner for 2023
The award recognises her incredible support and leadership to make museums more accessible.
St. Conan's Kirk, Argyll, Scotland Photo: Andrew Prins
News
£12.2million investment to help save UK’s historic buildings
From the only thatched ice house of its kind to the oldest picture house in Northern Ireland, we have awarded 12 heritage buildings life-saving support.
The Gurkha Museum is supported by a thriving community of current and former Gurkhas
Stories
Battlefield bonds: sharing the heritage of Nepal and the UK’s military partnership
The Gurkha Museum's redevelopment project will celebrate the unique relationship between Nepal, the British Army and the UK.
A photograph from the archives.
Photo: NHS at 70
Stories
Three projects that celebrate 75 years of the NHS
From oral histories to archive collections, we’ve awarded over £980,000 to three projects that record and preserve memories of our National Health Service (NHS), for use now and in the future.