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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 …

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 …

£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, …

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 …

The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019 is on! #GivingTuesday kicks off the seven-day match funding campaign 03/12/2019 We are championing 31 heritage charities in The Big Give Christmas Challenge, from 3-10 December — and you can donate to your favourite, …

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 …

Fly by night - Moths and bats take over Parliament 11/10/2010 MPs and Peers will be able to learn about the serious plight of these often misunderstood creatures, their vital role within the UK’s delicate ecosystem and what is being done to protect …

Spring time investment boost for six UK parks 31/03/2010 The parks in London, Darlington, Oldham and Stoke-on-Trent are now set to begin major redevelopment work.   Carole Souter, Chief Executive of HLF, on behalf of HLF and BIG, said: “Now the clocks …