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Funding boost for five new NI heritage projects 09/07/2013 This latest investment, made through the Sharing Heritage and Our Heritage grant programmes, will enable local communities across Northern Ireland to get involved in exploring, protecting and …

Thousands attend re-opening of Croydon’s Wandle Park 09/07/2013 The public event follows Croydon Council’s £3.5million transformation of the 123-year-old park that has returned the River Wandle to the surface for the first time in 40 years, brought the …

Detailed plans for Wicksteed Park Lake 09/07/2013 The Kettering park, one of East Midland’s most popular attractions, has been awarded just over £1million (£1,046,900) from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to support the project. The restoration will …

Young people lead the way in changing Bradford 08/07/2013 The project has enabled young people from the Manningham Youth Project and Impressions Gallery’s New Focus group to be trained as oral history interviewers. Using audio, film and photographic …

Support for The End of the Shift 08/07/2013 The aim is to record the experiences of folk who worked in past industries of Perthshire and East Fife, such as mills, dye-works, glass-works, factories, quarries and mines and to create a dedicated website as …

Green light to over 100 heritage skills placements 04/06/2013 From digitising archives to identifying species, these work-based training opportunities have been designed to include more contemporary heritage skills, such as using social media and …

Lottery boost for local heritage projects 10/06/2013 Ambitious plans by the friends of Portaferry Presbyterian Church to restore this building were recognised with the award of a £935,700 grant, while ArtsEkta’s project to explore and record the shared …

Touching the Tide secures support 18/06/2013 Touching The Tide is a £900,000 HLF Landscape Partnership Scheme covering 125 square kilometres along the Suffolk coast between Covehithe and Felixstowe. The project is being led by the Suffolk Coast & Heaths …

Grimsby's young people explore why 'Your Country Needs You' 31/05/2013 Led by volunteers from the local community the project focuses on commemorating the young men from Grimsby and Cleethorpes who signed up to fight in the First World War as Grimsby …

£3 million boost for Dorset’s spectacular countryside 18/06/2013 The South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership, made up of 14 local organisations led by the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), is an innovative mix of archaeologists, …