The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has today announced an investment of £581,300 to secure the future of Grade II listed buildings, Hay-on-Wye Cheese Market and St Mary’s Church in Nefyn. The money will be used to restore them for community use and create museum and interpretation spaces to tell the

A significant project exploring the experiences of blind and partially sighted people in Wales, from the mid-1800s to the present day, has been given the go-ahead, thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund’s All Our Stories small grant programme. This grant programme – developed alongside BBC

The Scarlets have been awarded a £100,000 grant for a heritage trail that will celebrate Llanelli and its rugby club’s great history with the aim of inspiring young people to find out more about the rich culture and sporting legacy of the region.The decision happily arrives just over a week before

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales is today celebrating two new art acquisitions - View of Margam House, Glamorgan, looking South & View of Margam House, Glamorgan, looking North - after receiving a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Art Fund.The two large panoramic paintings

Since awarding our first ever Young Roots grant to Prince’s Trust Cymru back in 2002 to produce a drama and create a documentary film about Aneurin Bevan, HLF has invested more than £1million to help young people explore the history that interests them. From learning new skills to gaining more

HLF is looking for at least one committee member in Wales and eight committee members across England in the following regions: East of England, East Midlands, South West and the West Midlands.We are also recruiting for a new committee chair for our North West Committee. Why join an HLF Committee

Dame Jenny Abramsky set out HLF’s plans for investing £375m a year of lottery money over the next five years and announced new funding streams and initiatives designed to enable a strong, robust sector to respond in new ways to the conditions it now faces. In addition, she said that HLF would listen

This funding will help develop exhibitions and projects that will include artefacts from national collections across Wales and the UK.The project is a joint initiative between the Welsh Government and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) who have contributed £105,766 and £99,900 respectively.The scheme

This is the biggest ever grant award in Wales to help Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales redevelop St Fagans: National History Museum to tell the stories of human life in Wales over 200,000 years and more.The project, Creu Hanes - Making History aims to build on St Fagans’ popularity as the UK

Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council (RCTCBC) will use the funding, together with monies being sought from other funders to restore and reopen the Grade II listed Lido complex with modern facilities for the local community. Built in 1927 in an arts and crafts style, at a time when several

MPs and Peers viewed this remarkable collection, which consists of 109 photographs that provide a unique view of the Antarctic as seen through Captain Scott’s eyes. The photographs will now make their final journey to the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in Cambridge where, after a period of

The manuscript will only be on show for a limited period, 23 July – 31 August, before being taken into the care of the Library’s conservators to be rebound and digitised.The manuscript was bought by the National Library for £541,250 at auction in Sotheby’s in London on 10 July. The Heritage Lottery

Announced as HLF sets out its new strategic framework for 2013 – 2018, HLF will now ask all applicants requesting funding above £2m to measure the carbon footprint of their projects. With so many HLF-supported projects involving building expansion and a growth in visitor numbers, HLF’s Board of

The Copper Kingdom, located on the Wales Coastal Path, is set to become a major visitor attraction for the area, with locals, walkers and tourists looking to enjoy the breathtaking views of the Anglesey coast while discovering more about the area’s history and internationally significant archaeology

The challenge ahead was daunting but volunteers and staff were determined to return the Museum to its rightful place at the heart of the community.With funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Welsh Government, the Trust has restored an historic building in the town, The Bonded Stores

The 17th-century cultural celebrations will take place on the Urdd National Eisteddfod site at Llandrillo College, Glynllifon Campus near Caernarfon next Wednesday, 6 June at 1.30pm as a flash-performance of Mari horses make their way through the festival site. Mari Lwyd (Y Fari Lwyd in Welsh

Last year HLF endorsed the Belfast Hills Partnership’s initial proposals for their Landscape Partnership (LP) scheme, and following twelve months of detailed planning and development the full award has now been secured.The LP programme acts as a catalyst to bring communities and organisations

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), the UK’s oldest surgical Royal College, today announced that it had been awarded the grant to extend and redevelop its Surgeons’ Hall Museum. Originally developed as a teaching museum for students of medicine, it has been open to the general public