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Setting the context

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Setting the context The insight shaping our next steps Drawing on several sources of insight and evidence, we’ve reflected on how we’re moving towards the ambitions set out in Heritage 2033 after our first three years.  Evidence about our impact Many of …

Heritage 2033 delivery plan: 2026–2029

A crowd of people at a procession featuring a giant puppet of Lord Rhys, in Maenclochog.

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Heritage 2033 delivery plan: 2026–2029 Introduction In 2023 we set out our 10-year strategy, Heritage 2033, to invest £3.6billion raised for good causes by National Lottery players to make a decisive difference for people, places and communities. …

Reopening Dewsbury Arcade as the UK’s first community-run shopping centre

Inside Dewsbury Arcade, showing original timber shopfronts and a new glazed roof with shoppers walking down the central walkway
The historic shopfronts and glazed roof have been restored and a range of independent businesses occupy the units, with more coming soon. Credit: Kirklees Council.

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Reopening Dewsbury Arcade as the UK’s first community-run shopping centre 09/09/2026 The historic shopfronts and glazed roof have been restored and a range of independent businesses occupy the units, with more coming soon. Credit: Kirklees Council. With …

Seven historic buildings we’re funding to become community hubs

the deputy mayor and a group of people in a museum looking at building plans
The Deputy Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council looks at plans for Ballycastle Museum. Credit: Causeway Coast and Glens Museum Services.

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Seven historic buildings we’re funding to become community hubs 02/09/2026 The Deputy Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council looks at plans for Ballycastle Museum. Credit: Causeway Coast and Glens Museum Services. From a cart and wagon shed on …

Reimagining Wrexham’s museum for football and community

The exterior of the refurbished Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham Museum building
The refurbished museum brings together sporting heritage and community history. Credit: Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham Museum, 2026.

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Reimagining Wrexham’s museum for football and community 25/09/2026 The refurbished museum brings together sporting heritage and community history. Credit: Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham Museum, 2026. The new Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham …

Growing a sustainable future through food heritage

An adult helps two children to harvest a field of wheat
Growing Communities is helping families get hands-on with their food heritage. Credit: Rhi Ellis.

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Growing a sustainable future through food heritage Growing Communities is helping families get hands-on with their food heritage. Credit: Rhi Ellis. 01/09/2026 In a climate and cost-of-living crisis, reconnecting with our food heritage could offer a way …

Reuniting Manchester’s Portico Library in a once-in-a-generation project

The outside of the 19th-century building with a large stone portico supported by columns
Visitors will be able to better explore the ideas that shaped Manchester and the nation through improved access to the historic book collection. Credit: Andrew Brooks.

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Reuniting Manchester’s Portico Library in a once-in-a-generation project 16/09/2026 Visitors will be able to better explore the ideas that shaped Manchester and the nation through improved access to the historic book collection. Credit: Andrew Brooks. …

Over £1.8million awarded to transform industrial sites into wildlife havens

Close up of a common frog in a pond
The programme will support vulnerable amphibian and reptile species which are threatened by habitat loss.

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Over £1.8million awarded to transform industrial sites into wildlife havens 25/08/2026 The programme will support vulnerable amphibian and reptile species which are threatened by habitat loss. Coalface to Wildspace will restore habitats for amphibians and …

Grantee Q&A: how Ballycastle Museum pivoted from project-ending issues to success

a busy high street with gazebos with information about the museum's redevelopment
Ballycastle Museum’s current home, the black and white building, will expand sideways into the cream building. Credit: Causeway Coast and Glens Museum Services.

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Grantee Q&A: how Ballycastle Museum pivoted from project-ending issues to success Ballycastle Museum’s current home, the black and white building, will expand sideways into the cream building. Credit: Causeway Coast and Glens Museum Services. 20/08/2026 …

Providing access to archaeology for young people in Harrow

three young women dig a plot of ground marked with string with trowels
Free archaeology activities helped young people in Harrow, west London, experience an archaeological dig.

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Providing access to archaeology for young people in Harrow 23/09/2026 Free archaeology activities helped young people in Harrow, west London, experience an archaeological dig. A sixth form college in northwest London involved local students in digs on …

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