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When West Sussex went to war 12/09/2012 The Library Service will be working with the County Record Office plus volunteers, teachers, schoolchildren and students to create a vivid picture of how towns and villages, families and individuals were affected by …

£1.29million to regenerate the historic townscape of Ballymoney 11/10/2012 Last year the HLF approved Ballymoney Regeneration’s initial proposals to regenerate buildings within Ballymoney Conservation Area, and following 12 months of detailed development …

Pitt Rivers Museum wins Heritage Lottery Fund support of over £1million 15/10/2012 A £1.6million project in total, VERVE will fund vital conservation, sensitive refreshment of displays and much-improved case lighting, alongside a wide-ranging programme of …

Boost for Flow Country peatland restoration 11/10/2012 Flow to the Future is an ambitious plan, co-ordinated by the Peatlands Partnership, to restore seven square miles of globally important peatlands (blanket bog) in Caithness & Sutherland. This will …

Hyde Park's Speakers’ Corner gets its lively voices on record and into the classroom 16/10/2012 This volunteer-led project will preserve and celebrate the heritage of Speakers’Corner from 1866, when the Reform League tore down the gates of Hyde Park, to …

Broad horizons for the narrow gauge 08/10/2012 The Alston, Cumbria based South Tynedale Railway has received initial support for a £3m Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) bid, including £93,600 development funding, towards a new three-year development and …

British Postal Museum & Archive secures initial support from Heritage Lottery Fund 09/10/2012 Initial HLF support has been granted for an application of £4.25million and development funding of £250,000 has been awarded. The new Postal Museum & Archive …

New exhibition of sculpture from Bardney Abbey 05/10/2012 Around the year 675 King Æthelred of Mercia founded a monastery at Bardney. He was to become its Abbot and was buried there when he died. Æthelred arranged for the bones of St Oswald to be …

Putting Bailiffgate Museum at the heart of the community 02/10/2012 The grant will help fund an exciting volunteer-led project that will rejuvenate the museum and its current collections – helping to put it at the heart of the community of Alnwick and the …

Young people unite to explore cultural heritage 08/10/2012 Awarded a grant of £24,700 through HLF's Young Roots programme, the film and soft sculptures will be exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) from 4 October until 31 October as part of YSP's …