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Plans progress to transform historic church into mental wellbeing centre 27/07/2010 The development funding enables the East Suffolk Mind, the charity committed to improving the lives of people with mental health issues and the Churches Conservation …

Future of magnificent garden secured 27/07/2010 The HLF grant, gives the green light to the plans by English Heritage to restore one of Britain’s finest landscape gardens to its original splendour. Wrest Park is one of the country’s largest ‘secret …

£570,000 to open up Cotesbach’s heritage 17/03/2011 Once conserved, the buildings will provide a new home for the important estate archive, which contains records dating back to the early 15th century. Alongside this new learning spaces will be created, …

More than £15.7 million for England’s historic places of worship 17/02/2011 The grants were awarded under the organisations’ joint Repair Grants for Places of Worship scheme*. Nationally, since 2002, almost £140 million of grants have been awarded for …

Postcards from the Park 2010 08/07/2010 This summer sees the launch of Postcards from the Park 2010 , a national photography competition organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) and parks charity GreenSpace. Now in its …

Fly by night - Moths and bats take over Parliament 11/10/2010 MPs and Peers will be able to learn about the serious plight of these often misunderstood creatures, their vital role within the UK’s delicate ecosystem and what is being done to protect …

Spring time investment boost for six UK parks 31/03/2010 The parks in London, Darlington, Oldham and Stoke-on-Trent are now set to begin major redevelopment work.   Carole Souter, Chief Executive of HLF, on behalf of HLF and BIG, said: “Now the clocks …

UK's oldest children’s charity to tell the story of care 03/10/2019 Coram has received a £1.26million National Lottery grant to digitise part of its archive, which dates back nearly three centuries. The archive The archive, held at the London Metropolitan …

Turner painting of Malmesbury Abbey saved for the nation J M W Turner, Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, 1827 05/02/2020 A watercolour of Malmesbury Abbey by J M W Turner has been acquired by Athelstan Museum in Malmesbury, thanks to National Lottery players. …