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Urgent repairs to East Midlands historic places of worship 11/08/2013 Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced £782,700 of Lottery funding to help secure the future of eight of the East Midlands’ most historic places of worship, including the …

Bawdsey Radar wins support tor its Transmitter Block project 13/08/2013 Development funding of £79,400 has been awarded to help progress the plans to apply for a full grant from HLF within two years. The project aims to conserve the Transmitter Block …

Support for conservation of spritsail barge Centaur 02/08/2013 The project which starts in August will restore the wooden planking on Centaur’s bottom to its original thickness after nearly 118 years of sailing in the Thames Estuary and East Coast rivers. …

New Committee member for Wales 05/06/2013 Megan de Silva is the Objects Conservator for Monmouthshire County Council having studied Conservation for Museums and Archaeology at Cardiff University. She has worked as a conservator caring for collections for …

World’s first iron-framed building secures major investment 30/07/2013 The funding will be put towards the first phase of the redevelopment of the Flax Mill Maltings site, which will restore and bring back into a third century of productive use some of …

Oldest Methodist building in the world takes first step towards a new future 30/07/2013 The New Room, known as the ‘cradle of Methodism’ and widely regarded as the most important Methodist heritage site in the world, is seeking to construct a new …

‘Saving Gower’ landscape 31/07/2013 The £1,315,200 funding provided to the 'Saving Gower – for All its Worth' project means that the beautiful but fragile landscape of this popular tourist destination will now be safeguarded for the future. The Gower is …

Two diverse Scottish landscapes to be protected 08/08/2013 The distinctive volcanic landscape of the Lomond Hills in Fife has been awarded £1.71m while the ‘silvery’ Tay near Perth have received £1.43m through HLF’s Landscape Partnership (LP) programme. …

Middlesbrough Town Hall passes the first stage 30/07/2013 Middlesbrough Town Hall, a magnificent Grade II* listed Victorian building, has been a major icon of the industrial heritage of Middlesbrough and the Tees Valley since it opened in 1889. Its …

Bells restoration project wins support 25/07/2013 The target has been reached with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Church Buildings Council, Guild of Bell Ringers, Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust and The Benhams Charitable Settlement. …