Celebrating our community heritage can help bring people together, feel pride in where they live and save stories and traditions.
Thanks to National Lottery players, since 1994 we have awarded almost £120million to more than 3,000 community heritage projects across the UK.
What do we support?
We help people researching and sharing the history of a community or of a place.
We also fund projects which combine different types of heritage in a particular location.
Project ideas
Our funding could help people:
- research the impact of a historical event on their town. They could then share their findings through displays, talks and online
- investigate the names on a war memorial
- crowdsource documents and photographs linked to the LGBT+ community, creating an online archive and exhibition
- set up an audio trail around a range of buildings, parks and monuments in a town
- enable a youth group to research their local history and create an animated film about their learnings
How to get funding
Find out about the funding options available.
Responding to coronavirus (COVID-19)
How we are helping the people and organisations working across the heritage sector. Last updated: 1 March 2021.
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