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All Our Stories: how YOU could apply for a lottery grant at the BBC’s roadshow event – Glasgow’s Riverside Museum 06/06/2012 The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) will be at the BBC’s The Great British Story event at Riverside Museum this weekend (9 June 2012) …

Heritage Lottery Fund invests further £13.6m in skills 28/05/2012 Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced a further investment of £13.6m in 51 skills projects through its Skills for the Future¹ and Training Bursaries Programmes². This money …

£20m HLF investment in 13 distinctive landscapes across UK 23/07/2012 This investment will help conserve some of the UK’s most diverse and locally distinctive landscapes by supporting schemes that provide long-term social, economic and environmental …

Four museums to be transformed 26/07/2012 Alongside the £1.42billion which has been allocated to transforming the UK’s museums and galleries since the launch of the National Lottery, HLF’s latest awards will ensure that our collections continue to respond …

Accreditation for Otley Courthouse Heritage Group 15/08/2012 Now a Community Arts and Resource Centre, Otley Courthouse played an important role in the West Riding area of Yorkshire between the 1870s and 1997. By interviewing a wide range of people who …

‘Pattie Slappers’ project to collect memories from Hull’s past 07/08/2012 The year-long Pattie Slappers project will work with volunteers to collect stories from people who worked in the frozen food industry to create a website, a book, an oral archive, …

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: HLF routes £1.5m into Mourne Mountains 23/07/2012 They were the inspiration for renowned author C.S Lewis’ imaginative creation of the fantasy Kingdom of Narnia; immortalised in song by the numerously covered song ‘The …

Ben Uri art museum acquires portrait by Soutine 25/07/2012 La Soubrette (Waiting Maid) , c. 1933, is of international importance and has been acquired by private treaty through Sotheby’s, thanks to a £193,000 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant and almost …

'Command of the Oceans' rides the waves of success 26/07/2012 The Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent has received initial HLF support* for its ‘Command of the Oceans’ project, it was announced today. At the heart of this new £8.4m project will be ‘the ship …

Community archaeology group find traces of medieval mill 03/08/2012 With awards from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), English Heritage and others, in 2011 the group had uncovered a unique medieval wheel pit in the river, constructed from high quality …