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First World War music project prompts twinning letter links 27/02/2014 Pupils at Becket Primary and Arboretum Junior schools are among the young people who have been working with the orchestra and with choreographer Tom Dale, for the arts project entitled …

Major boost for Maritime Museum 04/02/2013 The outline proposals from Derry City Council were awarded a first-round pass and development grant of £278,000, which will be used to work up more detailed plans in order to secure the full £3million grant …

Abbotsford House 01/04/2009 The Heritage Lottery Fund has given the green light to Abbotsford House to work up plans to restore this exceptional historic home of Sir Walter Scott. Development funding of £144,000 was awarded by HLF to help them work up …

Thinktank Made in Birmingham gallery to go ahead 17/01/2011 The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has just confirmed a grant of nearly £900,000* to Thinktank so that hundreds of items in previously unseen collections can be displayed in an exciting new …

HLF to safeguard the Lasting Legacy of Huddersfield Rugby League 26/07/2011 The first round pass ensures that the project can now progress to the second stage of HLF application process. Sporting pride Community Trust now have up to two years to submit …

Cornwall’s Victorian Silicon Valley secures over £1.5m for bold new heritage development 27/01/2012 Thanks to an injection of £125,000 from the DCMS/Wolfson Fund and a further £1.44 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), Porthcurno Telegraph Museum …

More than £670,000 for Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Somerset Historic Places of Worship 17/02/2011 The grants were awarded, across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset and Somerset, under the organisations’ joint Repair Grants for Places of Worship …

£3.4million lottery win to save HMS Alliance 30/05/2011 The funding will help save HMS Alliance, the only surviving WW2 era submarine that is the memorial to 5,300 British Submariners. Stuart McLeod, Head of HLF South East, said: “This Heritage Lottery …

Lottery boost for traditional heritage skills 05/10/2009 The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) today announced seven projects, under its existing Training Bursary Programme, that are set to benefit from an additional £2.85m investment. This will deliver a wide …

Music Hall stars to shine once more 01/08/2009 They trod the boards throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries as singers, dancers, comedians, acrobats, animal trainers and clowns.  Memories of these music hall and variety artistes may have faded …