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Kilfinan Community Forest delivers diverse skills development opportunities 13/08/2014 Kilfinan Community Forest Company (KCFC) ran a six-month ‘Volunteer For Skills’ programme (funded by the Voluntary Action Fund), as well as a four week pilot work …

Three Welsh projects campaign for glory 04/07/2014 The projects have been plucked from over 750 entries to go into the public vote to decide the winners of this year’s National Lottery Awards – the annual search for the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded …

Call to action! Chair sought to lead our Board 02/07/2014 This is a prime ministerial appointment, made with the advice of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The NHMF is the nation’s grant-in-aid fund to save the most outstanding parts …

Plea for wartime memories of volunteer hospitals 31/07/2014 The project, Home Comforts: Red Cross Auxiliary Hospitals in the North Riding 1914-19, is aimed at collecting as much information as possible while memories of the period are still alive and …

Community takes Blackwater River heritage into their own hands 26/09/2012 The project is run by the Blackwater Regional Partnership which is a partnership aiming to improve the environmental, economic and community development of the Blackwater region. …

Local project to examine heritage from pre-history to the 20th century 21/07/2014 A local heritage project will map the history and major stories of Annaclone over thousands of years from antiquity to the 20th century, thanks to £25,000 funding from the …

HLF launches Heritage Exchange 08/07/2014 The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), in partnership with Royal Society for the Arts (RSA), is bringing together for the first time a range of high profile heritage leaders and thinkers on 14 and 15 July to debate the …

New research reveals UK heritage funding in a vulnerable state 11/07/2014 New research published today by New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) reveals that 60% of heritage organisations still rely on grants from funders as their biggest source of income; 21% …

East meets West in festivals 16/06/2009 The East-West Festive Cultures project will study the similarities and differences between festivals comparing, for example, Hallowe’en with Ghost Month, and St Valentine’s Day with the Lantern Festival. The …

Bexley memories saved thanks to Heritage Lottery Fund support 20/01/2010 Both will involve working with Bexley Council’s Local Studies and Archives Centre and, in the case of one of the projects, the reminiscences collected will extend beyond borough …