Thanks to National Lottery players, since 1994 we have awarded over £2.2bn to more than 5,000 museum, library, archive and collection-based projects across the UK.
We have awarded over £500,000 to more than 1,700 projects in UK archives and libraries.
What do we support?
Our funding supports institutions large and small, including:
- national and local authority museums, libraries and archives
- historic libraries
- community archives
- institutions with heritage collections
Project ideas
Our funding could help people:
- revitalise buildings and provide new purpose-built facilities
- create exciting new exhibition and learning spaces
- refurbish specialist libraries, archives and galleries
- attract more diverse audiences
- interpret and open up acquisitions
- develop collections
How to get funding
Our National Lottery Grants for Heritage Programme has resumed with refocused priorities for 2021-22. Find out more and apply.
Responding to coronavirus (COVID-19)
Meet the multiple winners of the 2020 Museum of the Year Award
Museums should be like public squares - for everyone to enjoy
LGBT+ History Month: A space in the archives
Hands on Heritage: youngsters research the LGBT+ past of Wales
The Hands on Heritage project at Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales’ enabled young people from diverse backgrounds to have an impact on the collections.
Full range of National Lottery funding resumes with refocused priorities for 2021-22
The search is on for the 2021 Sustainable Project of the Year
£13.5million to kickstart 22 heritage projects
Pride in Suffolk’s Past: Sharing LGBTQ+ stories past and present
Suffolk Archives' latest project sets to uncover and share the hidden LGBTQ+ stories from Suffolk's history.
Lady Malcolm's Servants' Ball: reviving London's 1920s & 1930s queer scene
A collective of performance artists re-enacted Lady Malcolm’s Servants’ Ball; a firm fixture of the queer scene in London almost a century ago.
Case study: Queering Spires - a history of LGBTIQA+ spaces in Oxford
£1.9m to help Highlands heritage
Last surviving D-Day landing craft opens in Portsmouth
Disability History Month: recognising access in its many forms
Volunteers help East Anglian museum thrive during lockdown
The open-air Museum of East Anglian Life relies on volunteers to care for its 17 historic buildings and three kilometres of woodland and nature trails.