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Heritage a winner at the SURF awards 17/12/2012 This annual awards scheme run by SURF (Scotland’s Independent Regeneration Network) highlights, celebrates and shares best practice in regeneration. Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme, which received a …

Birmingham young people will trace past times, work and play 12/12/2012 Young people in Castle Bromwich will investigate the automotive industry that has been the mainstay of the area’s employment for many years whilst, in Ladywood, the childhood games of …

Community celebrates Lottery award for restoration of city landmark 17/12/2012 Plymouth University has been awarded £601,600, from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund (BIG), to restore the Drake’s Place Gardens and Reservoir, off North …

Festive cheer for Scottish parks with multi-million Heritage Lottery investment 17/12/2012 Wilton Lodge Park in Hawick, associated with Scottish sporting legends, Steve Hislop, Jimmie Guthrie, and Bill McLaren, received funding of £2.6million to create an …

Stoke-on-Trent’s Hanley Park secures initial Lottery support 18/12/2012 Grade II listed Hanley Park first opened in 1897. Designed by landscape architect Thomas Mawson, it is considered one of the best and earliest examples of his work in public parks in …

Story at 40: the lives and times of disabled people in Wales 03/12/2012 Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Story at 40 is an oral history project capturing the lives and times of disabled people in Wales from the 1970s to present day. It has provided …

HLF invests £1.3m for Bristol and North Somerset’s famous Victorian heritage 20/12/2012 The iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge and Clevedon Pier, who have each received Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grants of £595,000 and £720,000 respectively, can now get …

It’s a Lottery Christmas cracker for Runcorn Hill & Heath Park! 17/12/2012 Halton’s Runcorn Hill & Heath Park has been awarded a cracker of a Christmas in the shape of £1.3m grant-funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund (BIG). …

Hoylandswaine painting to be revealed thanks to Heritage Lottery Fund support 18/12/2012 Led by volunteers from the local community, the project focuses on revealing and restoring the painting ‘The Ascendency of Christ’, by local artist John Roddam …

Historic Widnes church saved thanks to new community role 08/01/2013 St Marie’s Roman Catholic Church, Widnes, was designed in the early 1860’s by EW Pugin and, since being closed in 2007, has fallen into serious disrepair suffering frequent attacks by …