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Areas, buildings and monuments

Areas, buildings and monuments

Areas, buildings and monuments
Safeguarding our historic buildings, monuments and archaeology for future generations.

Thanks to National Lottery players, since 1994 we have awarded £3.4billion to more than 10,600 area, historic building and monument projects across the UK. See stories from projects we've funded below.

We provide grants for heritage projects from £10,000–£10million to ensure that heritage is valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.

These projects can help to sustain jobs, support economic growth and protect heritage at risk. They can also bolster local pride, nurture traditional craft skills and help communities enjoy and make use of the places they care about.

What do we support?

Projects we fund include:

  • investment in places of worship
  • conservation and repairs to historic buildings and places
  • finding appropriate new uses for historic buildings
  • community archaeology projects

Places of worship

Places of worship are among the UK’s oldest and most cherished historic buildings. We want to help congregations become truly resilient and their buildings genuinely sustainable.

Places of worship we fund

Project ideas

Our funding could help people:

  • repair and transform a historic building at the heart of their community
  • help volunteers learn building conservation skills
  • rescue a building on a Buildings at Risk register
  • undertake a community archaeology project
  • regenerate a historic town centre or high street
  • look after and learn about a local war memorial

How to get funding

Our National Lottery Heritage Grants programme is open for applications.

Find out more and apply
Visitors stand on the Hogarth Stair and look up at The Pool of Bethesda painting
Visitors stand in front of The Pool of Bethesda painting. Credit: Matthew Andrews

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£4.9million to restore the heritage treasures of St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Thanks to the National Lottery funding, the ‘Sharing Historic Barts’ project will address urgent repairs to historic spaces situated in the Grade I listed North Wing of the hospital, including the 18th-century Great Hall. It will also provide a public programme with heritage and wellbeing at its
Colourful illustration of water works building with celebration fireworks drawn by Quentin Blake
Quentin Blake's illustration of the Engine House building, the new home of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. Credit: Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.

Projects

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Historic waterworks are to become the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration thanks to over £3.75million in funding.

Magna Fort with Walltown Crags beyond
Magna Fort with Walltown Crags beyond Vindolanda Charitable Trust

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Roman Magna Project to uncover stories of Hadrian’s Wall fort

We have awarded the Vindolanda Charitable Trust over £1.6million to support research excavation and explore the impact of climate change on this important cultural heritage site.
Group of young people sat around a campfire in a wood
A group of young people engage in outdoor activities. West Horsley Place

Projects

West Horsley Place: An historic estate without barriers

Having never been open to the public before, West Horsely Place provides a brand-new heritage offer created in collaboration with local communities.

The exterior of Bank Hall in Bretherton, Lancashire
Bank Hall in Bretherton, Lancashire

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Lancashire’s Bank Hall restored to former glory

Thanks to National Lottery support, the Grade II* listed Bank Hall has completed its extraordinary renovation journey and can welcome visitors to explore its heritage.
The restored Georgian lido Cleveland Pools in Bath lit up at night
Cleveland Pools, Bath. Credit: Historic England Archive

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At-risk heritage sites saved thanks to National Lottery support

Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register provides an annual snapshot of England’s most valued heritage sites that are at risk of being lost as a result of neglect, decay or inappropriate development. 175 sites have been added to the Register this year. However, it isn’t all bad news as the
Two people wearing scarlet Chelsea Pensioners' uniform open stable doors at Royal Chelsea Hospital, London with historic building and courtyard behind
Opening the main stable doors for work to begin on the three-year project. Pictured left to right: Chelsea Pensioners, James Little, BEM and Carol Knight. Grainge Photography

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Chelsea Pensioners’ Stable Block to open doors for the first time

A new grant will allow the Royal Hospital Chelsea to publicly open part of its building for the first time, enabling visitors to learn more about its unique history.

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