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Heritage Places: year 1 evaluation report

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… report 29/05/2025 Explore the progress we’ve made and what we’ve learned during the first year of our strategic … boosting pride in place, revitalising local economies and connecting people with their heritage in towns and cities … to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future . Our research and evaluation We …

Saving heritage: nine ways projects are protecting the past

Two people sitting outside carving wood at woodworking benches
A woodworking workshop at Abney Park.

Stories

… Abney Park. 16/12/2024 From restoring historic buildings and threatened habitats to keeping skills and traditions alive, projects we fund are making sure heritage is conserved and cared for, now and in the future. With our support, these organisations …

Subsidy control

Publications

… may be considered to be subsidies. We are a public body and the largest funder for the UK’s heritage. As The National … the UK If our funding meets all four key characteristics , then it will be a subsidy. For a subsidy to be permitted it … that focuses on conserving and valuing heritage for now and the future, supporting nature recovery and …

The impact and legacy of our Digital Skills for Heritage initiative

Publications

… The impact and legacy of our Digital Skills for Heritage initiative … end of programme evaluation reveals thousands of people and organisations took part in and benefitted from our … heritage more discoverable, accessible and open. There is now a wealth of openly licenced learning resources in English …

The history of lost Chinese sailors uncovered

Chinese seamen learning how to handle an Oerlikon gun
Chinese seamen learning how to handle an Oerlikon gun at the Gunnery School For Inter-allied Merchant Seamen, 1942 Wikimedia Commons

News

… 1,300 Chinese sailors were put on specially assigned ships and sent to the Far East without notice. The wives and … assigned ships and sent to the Far East without notice. Now Edge Hill University, working with local community group … for future generations. The project’s research will be then be archived in Birkenhead Library. The project will …

Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage, first round

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… Important The Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage is now closed to new applications. Explore our available funding … announced by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to safeguard cultural and heritage organisations across the UK from the economic …

HLF saving the silver screen

Interior of the refurbished Phoenix Cinema
Interior of the refurbished Phoenix Cinema

News

… to the great delight of cinema goers of all ages. Projects now span the generations from those who recall the joy of sitting in the one-and-nines or thrilling to the experience of Saturday morning … in time for the cinema’s centenary celebrations. Then there’s the Phoenix in East Finchley which was able to …

School will study the highest-flying women

Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space

News

… Theatre, Kingston University, the Women’s Library and the Science Museum in a project called The Dark Side of … when she visited MIR, the Russian space station. Since then, female space farers have commanded the Shuttle and the … taken part in space missions and female astronauts are now commonplace. Among their number have been: Valentina …

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