The City Council has been working with partners to prepare the bid for Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the Southgate Street Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI). News has today come in that it has secured £897,400 from the HLF.This has been topped up by the City Council, enabling those living and

The funding has been secured by Copeland Borough Council through the HLF’s Townscape Heritage Initiative.The project will focus on several key properties, including the former YMCA building, within the market place and neighbouring streets at the southern edge of the Whitehaven Town Centre

Local school children and residents will receive the historic All Souls banners before they are taken away for conservation. The children will be designing a new banner during the construction phase; this will be revealed at the launch of the reopened All Souls.All Souls is set to become a modern

A partnership comprising Kent County Council (KCC), Shepway District Council (SDC) and the Creative Foundation has been working for over a year on detailed proposals for major remedial works on buildings that will help improve the streetscape and secure the heritage of the Old Town. This will be

The project, Amersham WW1 Memorial Record – bringing our heritage to life, will create a lasting record of all those named on the Amersham War Memorial. It will bring together both official and personal information providing the individual’s service record, place of death and also include

The 40,000 sq. ft. Vehicle Conservation Centre, which will house over 100 armoured fighting vehicles, was built with the assistance of a £2.5million Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant. The new hall, includes a public observation gallery and `Conservation in Action` exhibition, and will contain

The £486,000 grant to the Archives and Records Council Wales will mean that what many regard as the earliest large-scale maps of Wales will continue to be an important historical resource for future generations.The grant has been awarded to the project ‘Cynefin: Mapping Wales’ Sense of Place’ which

The £5,900 grant awarded to the Parish Church of St. Stephen and St. Tathan, Caerwent will enable the adaptation of the current church structure to include a visitor and hospitality area within the church and a multipurpose learning centre.Jennifer Stewart, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund Wales

Kelmarsh Hall is planning to redevelop underground areas of the main house to chronicle the lives of those who worked in the hall and served its former residents. The grant awarded by HLF will be used to put together a full Lottery application for the £1million project. Dating back to 1800, the

Work to the chapel, which is Category A-listed, was instigated after a report in 1995 warned of damage to the stonework because of dampness and high humidity levels. In March 1997, a free-standing steel structure was erected to cover the building and allow the stone roof to dry out naturally, and

Previously unseen and rare images and artefacts and the personal memories of music-loving Greater Mancunians will recall the influence and excitement brought to the city by the likes of Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols and the Halle Orchestra in a new exhibition, Defining Me: Musical Adventures

The project aims to build a new archive centre and make the heritage collections more accessible to everyone, free of charge. The collections, which range from local to national significance are particularly strong in music and sport and include the archive of the Rugby League and the British Music

The cottages are examples of combined workshops and houses associated with worsted production, which pre-dated growth of the carpet industry and are unique survivors of this part of Kidderminster's industrial heritage. In addition to providing a new lease of life for these cottages as unique places

HLF-supported projects will now be asked to make their digital content widely available at no charge and to use a Creative Commons licence¹ so anyone can access and reuse content for non-commercial purposes. HLF has changed its policy so that it can now fund stand-alone digital projects. It has not

As part of the HLF’s Townscape Heritage grant programme, Pembrokeshire County Council will work in partnership with Pembrokeshire College to provide training opportunities for students. The Townscape Heritage programme focuses on the Haverfordwest Conservation Area and aims to revive and enhance the

The park which has benefited from a £5.2million restoration project thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and other funding, will host its official opening ceremony on Saturday 31 August, marking its return to the community. The completion of the heritage regeneration stage of the project is a

Bruce Crawford MSP helped children from Trossachs Primary School to christen the Great Trossachs Path, which is due to be completed in 2015. The 35mile-long route will form the spine of a wider network of trails throughout the Great Trossachs Forest, a large scale woodland restoration project which

The grant has been given to the 'Brecon Remembers' project and will now enable people research the stories and background of names on local First World War memorials. The announcement of this grant award for the Brecon Remembers project marks a year to the day that the First World War centenary