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Activity plan good practice guidance

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… of your National Lottery-supported project to engage, grow and diversify the audience for your heritage. By reading this … plan will help you understand: where your organisation is now (set benchmarks) where you want to get to (set your … the investment principles in our Heritage 2033 strategy. Then set out all the activity – in detail and properly costed …

Understanding your heritage

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… you will better understand its importance to place, people and communities, helping you to prepare your application for … why people value your heritage so you can make sensitive and appropriate decisions about how to look after it in the … heritage matter? Having established the facts you should now think about why your heritage is considered to be …

Changing lives: Keeley goes from finance to forests

Woman in wood

Stories

… for 20 years, but after experiencing redundancy, divorce and depression, she decided to ditch city life and pursue her … It was being made redundant that really forced Keeley, then 36, to consider what she wanted her life to look like. … and what it can do for your wellbeing.” Look where I am now "I wake up every morning wanting to come to work, knowing …

Stuart McLeod

Stuart McLeod

People

… thereafter working in a variety of local government and voluntary sector roles to improve public access to urban greenspace and the wider countryside. In 2005, he was appointed as … team in July 2009. He grew up in Buckinghamshire and now lives in Gillingham, Kent. … In 2005, he was appointed as …

Supporting documents: The Woodland Investment Grant (TWIG)

Publications

… Forest Outcomes template, measuring success checklist and consents checklists. Page last updated: 30 January 2024 Important This programme is now closed to new applications. This guidance is for use by … from this page (they are available in both English and Welsh):  National Forest Outcomes template – this …

Changing lives: Danielle ploughs a straight furrow to her ideal career

A woman ploughs with a Suffolk Punch horse

Stories

… farming, 24-year-old Danielle Chatten has found focus and a future. “It takes a level of willpower to command a … transported the hay and created a hay stack. That hay was then fed to a small herd of cows. The sense of achievement of … she lacked the focus necessary to land a full-time job. Now all that has changed. “The traineeship made me stronger, …

Football returns to World Cup legends Bobby and Jack Charlton’s childhood park

Jack Charlton returns to Hirst Park, Northumberland
Jack Charlton returns to Hirst Park, Northumberland

News

… Football returns to World Cup legends Bobby and Jack Charlton’s childhood park Jack Charlton returns to … that followed their success, the park fell into decline. Now, thanks to £2.3m from the National Lottery it will be … before going on to join Leeds and Manchester United and then playing in the world-cup winning England side in 1966. …

Landscapes, seas and nature good practice guidance

Publications

… Landscapes, seas and nature good practice guidance 29/01/2024 Natural heritage … the heritage materials we fund today can be found and used now and in the future. To supply data on habitats and species … application . If a site cannot accommodate sufficient BNG then provision may also need to be made offsite. This applies …

Year of Young People evaluation: young people rise to the challenge

Children at Coalburn
Credit: Delvin Photo Ltd

Publications

… was the theme of Scotland’s Year of Young People 2018, and shine they did, our evaluation report found. Credit: … helped promote it and encourage applications, and then made decisions on where the money was spent. Grants … deprivation, on a site once dominated by high-rise flats, now plants and flowers flourish and community spirit has been …

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