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Stewart Park 15/10/2009 Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund (BIG) have announced that much-loved Stewart Park in central Middlesbrough has been awarded a grant of just under £4.4 million. The park, which currently attracts 400,000 …

Save our Stones 28/04/2009 Historical boundary stones are to be excavated and preserved for future generations thanks to an award of over £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The project focuses on the area surrounding Dipton in Co. Durham and is …

East End’s Three Mills site gets restoration ‘green light’ in time for Olympics 22/11/2010 A development grant of £248,000 has been awarded to help the River Lea Tidal Mill Trust progress their plans, which include restoring the mill, its neighbour …

Major autumn lottery boost confirmed for Lordship ‘Rec’ 01/10/2010 The 23-hectare park, known by locals as 'The Rec', was opened in 1932 and is one of the few open spaces serving a densely populated inner urban area that includes the Broadwater Farm …

Plans progress to transform historic church into mental wellbeing centre 27/07/2010 The development funding enables the East Suffolk Mind, the charity committed to improving the lives of people with mental health issues and the Churches Conservation …

René Olivieri appointed interim Chair 30/12/2019 René Olivieri has been appointed interim Chair of The National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Heritage Memorial Fund following Sir Peter Luff’s retirement. René has been a member of the Board since …

£570,000 to open up Cotesbach’s heritage 17/03/2011 Once conserved, the buildings will provide a new home for the important estate archive, which contains records dating back to the early 15th century. Alongside this new learning spaces will be created, …

Future of magnificent garden secured 27/07/2010 The HLF grant, gives the green light to the plans by English Heritage to restore one of Britain’s finest landscape gardens to its original splendour. Wrest Park is one of the country’s largest ‘secret …

More than £15.7 million for England’s historic places of worship 17/02/2011 The grants were awarded under the organisations’ joint Repair Grants for Places of Worship scheme*. Nationally, since 2002, almost £140 million of grants have been awarded for …

Postcards from the Park 2010 08/07/2010 This summer sees the launch of Postcards from the Park 2010 , a national photography competition organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) and parks charity GreenSpace. Now in its …