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Hyde Park's Speakers’ Corner gets its lively voices on record and into the classroom 16/10/2012 This volunteer-led project will preserve and celebrate the heritage of Speakers’Corner from 1866, when the Reform League tore down the gates of Hyde Park, to …

Broad horizons for the narrow gauge 08/10/2012 The Alston, Cumbria based South Tynedale Railway has received initial support for a £3m Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) bid, including £93,600 development funding, towards a new three-year development and …

British Postal Museum & Archive secures initial support from Heritage Lottery Fund 09/10/2012 Initial HLF support has been granted for an application of £4.25million and development funding of £250,000 has been awarded. The new Postal Museum & Archive …

New exhibition of sculpture from Bardney Abbey 05/10/2012 Around the year 675 King Æthelred of Mercia founded a monastery at Bardney. He was to become its Abbot and was buried there when he died. Æthelred arranged for the bones of St Oswald to be …

Putting Bailiffgate Museum at the heart of the community 02/10/2012 The grant will help fund an exciting volunteer-led project that will rejuvenate the museum and its current collections – helping to put it at the heart of the community of Alnwick and the …

Young people unite to explore cultural heritage 08/10/2012 Awarded a grant of £24,700 through HLF's Young Roots programme, the film and soft sculptures will be exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) from 4 October until 31 October as part of YSP's …

Funding for learning and growing Delapré Abbey 03/10/2012 The funding will provide for a paid qualified professional to help promote participation and implement a range of education and volunteering activities at the abbey. It is hoped the move will …

Plan to create new home for County and Wakefield archives secures Heritage Lottery Fund support 08/10/2012 The aim is to provide a secure and stable environment for the collections of the former county of the West Riding, as well as for those relating to …

Unique prison tower to be saved 20/08/2012 Rye Museum Association, which owns the Rye Castle site, had been advised by experts that remedial work was urgently needed for the Grade I listed Women's Tower to survive. Now the association, together with the …

Bishop's Castle Town Hall restoration project to begin thanks to lottery support 19/09/2012 The Grade II listed 18th century building sits proudly at the centre of the town and was the civic, legal and economic heart of the town for over two hundred …