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How green spaces can improve our wellbeing

Paul Farmer CEO Mind

Blogs

… charity Mind The Space to Thrive report shows that parks and green spaces, done properly, can benefit people's mental … Brent Valley parks barely touching a road, and then onwards to Lammas and Walpole before heading south to … from the Rothschilds by local government in 1926 and is now home to a weekly Parkrun among very many other …

Blackpool moves one step closer to £20million museum dream

Empress dancing at the iconic Empress Ballroom

News

… 27/05/2014 Together with funding from Blackpool Council and volunteer support this creates a £1.6m pot for the … seaside resort, celebrating its contribution to British and Western popular culture. As well as displaying the … create Blackpool’s first museum, can truly get under way now and, once completed, will mean the best of Blackpool is …

Changing lives: Scout learns about terror of the trenches

Bachgen ifanc gyda camera

Stories

… He’s been fortunate enough to have had lots of exciting and interesting experiences during this time, but none have … two-year project exploring the role of North Wales Scouts and Scout leaders during the First World War.  “It actually … from different countries, some of them younger than I am now, was quite upsetting and it felt very real all of a …

Applications open for second round of Green Recovery Challenge Fund

Red tailed Bumblebee - Princes Park meadow, Falkirk (c)Claire Pumfrey

News

… across England to restore nature, tackle climate change and connect people with nature. Almost £40m was awarded to 68 … in the first round of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund. Now environmental charities and their partners have another opportunity to apply for …

New ideas need old buildings

Blogs

… the Spanish City boasted a concert hall, restaurant and tearooms, roof garden, ballroom and permanent funfair that attracted tens of thousands of … so high that the project just isn’t commercially viable.   Now, through Heritage Enterprise we’re encouraging …

Joining forces with the National Trust to improve parks

A view of a park

News

… initiative aims to secure the future of urban parks and green spaces We've joined forces with the National Trust to find and back ambitious and sustainable solutions to protect and … and funded to serve community needs and aspirations now and over the next generation. With grant funding and …

In the fight for equality, understanding our heritage matters

Carli Harper-Penman

Blogs

… Harper-Penman, Executive Director, Business Innovation and Insight (interim) Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, … an event which sparked the modern LGBT+ rights movement and inspired a generation. 28 June 1969 On 28 June 1969, the … has been hard won, but relatively rapid. Most of the UK now enjoys full LGBT+ legal equality, and sometimes it can be …

Stonehenge transformed

News

… by a £10m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and substantial gifts from the Garfield Weston Foundation, The Linbury Trust and the Wolfson Foundation. Visitors will be able to see … it’s only right that, after decades of indecision, we can now offer them the visitor experience and exhibition centre …

Looking back on our 30th year and towards the opportunities for heritage ahead

Eilish McGuinness

Blogs

… Looking back on our 30th year and towards the opportunities for heritage ahead 16/12/2024 … by revisiting some of the wonderful projects we've funded and reminding us of the difference heritage makes to people … heritage is valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future. But I recognise that our funding alone …

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