Industrial, maritime and transport
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Since 1994 we have awarded £630million to 1,600 industrial, maritime and transport projects across the UK.
We want to help more people conserve their local industrial heritage and pass on skills to younger generations.
What do we support?
Projects we fund include:
- printing presses
- pumping engines
- windmills
- historic ships
- locomotives
- natural landscapes transformed by industry
Project ideas
Our funding could help people:
- uncover and record people’s memories of our industrial past
- give a disused site a new purpose
- restore and maintain operating machinery
- reveal the history of industry in your area
- explore the nation's network of canals
- provide staffed visitor facilities and learning resources
- help young people learn new skills and care for their heritage
See the stories and projects below for more inspiration.
How to get funding
If you have an idea for a project, we would love to hear from you.
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Stories
Recovery and resilience: advice from a heritage project improving skills and wellbeing
![A group of people including children turn Bourn Windmill](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/imgs/cambourne_soul_turning_mill.jpg.webp?itok=4W4FWO50)
News
From facing collapse to welcoming visitors: the UK’s oldest windmill reopens
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News
More than £24million awarded to heritage projects across the UK
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Projects
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Historic waterworks are to become the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration thanks to over £3.75million in funding.
Stories
Why you should involve people with lived experience in your heritage project
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Videos
Clive Gray is the National Lottery Awards Heritage Winner for 2022
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Projects
Back on Track: Tilbury Riverside Station
This project will restore and celebrate the Grade II* listed Tilbury Cruise Terminal, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948 to bring Commonwealth citizens to the UK.
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News
Out of this world: Jodrell Bank's First Light Pavilion set to open
![Horse-drawn ambulance at Land of Iron. Credit: Land of Iron Two workmen standing either side of the horse-drawn ambulance](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/imgs/Horse-drawn%20ambulance.jpg.webp?itok=bwW82EKL)
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Revamped North Yorkshire museum reveals new name
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News
Community at heart of Silverburn Flax Mill revival
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Projects
Waterway Heritage Skills
The Canal & River Trust’s Waterways Heritage Skills Project created a pool of committed and skilled young people in waterway heritage skills, filling skills gaps within the Trust’s own workforce and the wider heritage sector.
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