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Wales: delegated decisions November 2025

Publications

… fallen soldiers on a new plaque on the Blaenavon cenotaph and print a book about their lives. Decision: Reject The … a three-year project that aims to create a re-integration and leadership excellence hub within Building 8 at Parc Dewi … Carmarthen. This is the old Carmarthen Asylum which is now a business hub. Decision: Reject Beyond Modern Britain …

Meet our committees: Atul Patel

Atul Patel, NHMF Trustee and Committee member for the East Midlands

Blogs

07/10/2016

… Meet our committees: Atul Patel Atul Patel, NHMF Trustee and Committee member for the East Midlands 07/10/2016 Atul … child in my school in Portsmouth. If anybody had told me then that Indian soldiers fought in the two world wars it … to an art gallery before if I hadn’t been involved in HLF! Now I've started to introduce my friends and family, …

£1m for First World War projects in the North East

Belgian refugees in Birtley, 1915

News

14/11/2016

… 14/11/2016 Funding to explore Birtley’s Belgian connection and tell the story of Thomas Kenny VC has brought investment … East. Projects awarded through HLF’s First World War: Then and Now programme and made possible by National Lottery players, … East. Projects awarded through HLF’s First World War: Then and Now programme and made possible by National Lottery …

Community to remember organic farming pioneer

News

13/06/2012

… one of England’s oldest organically-managed farms and the country’s first commercial yoghurt producer. After … to continue as a working farm and educational resource. Now a People’s Heritage project will train teams of … methods that are more widely accepted today but were then novel and experimental. Arthur’s work included …

Changing lives: Hazel builds head of steam for boilersmith career

Stories

08/02/2017

… for Hazel Pennack. “I've always wanted to be an engineer and I have always been interested in steam engines. I've been … life,” says Hazel, 34, who grew up in Harrow Weald and now lives in Gloucester. “My dad has built a 5inch gauge … London Museum of Water & Steam. An exciting opportunity Then she saw a stand advertising an apprenticeship with the …

Historic Widnes church saved thanks to new community role

News

08/01/2013

… Widnes, was designed in the early 1860’s by EW Pugin and, since being closed in 2007, has fallen into serious … heritage buildings in Britain by the Victorian Society but now its future is assured once it has been restored for use … involves a complete repair of the structure which will then act as the operational base for Halton and St Helens …

Saving Edinburgh's Botanic Cottage

Sutherland Forsyth sitting in front of the Cottage

Sutherland Forsyth in front of the Botanic Cottage

Blogs

12/05/2016

… of what can be achieved when organisations, individuals and funders all work together to give our heritage a new … of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), on what is now Leith Walk, one of Edinburgh’s busiest thoroughfares. The … each quoin stone, keystone, roof truss and beam numbered, then moved across the city to the current home of the Royal …

Heritage horticulturalists blossom and bloom at Cardiff Flower Show

Rhai o raddedigion y Cynllun Sgiliau Garddwriaeth Treftadaeth

News

18/05/2016

… Heritage horticulturalists blossom and bloom at Cardiff Flower Show Rhai o raddedigion y Cynllun … A group of specialist heritage horticulturalists have now graduated at the RHS Flower Show in Cardiff, having … Bodnant Garden, Bute Park, Dyffryn Gardens, Picton Castle and St Fagans - allowing students to experience tending some …

Appeal to secure portrait of black African muslim and freed slave

News

07/07/2010

… Appeal to secure portrait of black African muslim and freed slave 07/07/2010 The National Portrait Gallery … was sold at auction in Christies in December, and is now under a temporary export bar. The Gallery needs to raise … of his Islamic identity – and sold into slavery. He was then transported on a British ship to Maryland where he was …

Nuneaton Now and Then

Projects

… Nuneaton Now and Then Project data Programme Your Heritage Date … 09/09/2008 Location Wem Brook Local Authority Nuneaton and Bedworth Applicant George Eliot Community School Award … Nuneaton Now and Then …

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