Projects we’ve funded

With restored buildings and a host of new education programmes, people can better connect to Great Dixter’s historic gardens.

Funding was awarded to improve the visitor facilities and storage conditions at Fort Nelson, a 19-acre Victorian gun fort, overlooking Portsmouth Harbour.

Following a £7million refurbishment Preston Hall is able to display a wider range of the 90,000-plus items in the Stockton Museum Services' collection.

The Shepherd Wheel, the only remaining working example of a metal working shop and a Scheduled Ancient Monument, is gazed at in wonder by more than 30,000 people a year.

This multi-media, intergenerational storytelling project explored the racial heritage of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

Screen South used an HLF grant to create an online resource revealing the history of coastal Kent in the First World War and connecting communities with their past.

This unique historic attraction gives visitors an opportunity to see how ordinary people lived in 19th-century Birmingham.

Bassenthwaite Reflections was a community-focused Landscape Partnership Scheme, focusing on preserving the Bassenthwaite catchment area in the Lake District.

The project conserved over 40 heritage sites along the River Wye, helping visitors and locals to understand and enjoy these sites and become involved in the sustainable management of the area.

The project aimed to deliver a Landscape Partnership scheme for the Trent Vale area of the Trent Valley.

Strong community involvement was at the heart of an ambitious Landscape Partnership scheme to conserve and create better access to the former industrial landscape of the Blaenavon World Heritage.

The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester used this HLF grant to convert its Grade II Lower Byrom Street Warehouse into a new gallery of the textile industry.