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East End’s boxing lives revealed with Heritage Lottery help 08/09/2009 Boxers from clubs in London’s East End have clinched an array of British, Olympic and world titles and the story of their efforts has also been a story of social integration. Now that …

Phoenix Cinema re-born thanks to Heritage Lottery grant 09/07/2009 It started life as the Picturedrome in1910 and has been showing films ever since. Now known as the Phoenix, Britain’s oldest continuous working cinema is to receive a complete makeover …

Caring for Places of Worship 02/07/2010 Carole Souter, Chief Executive of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), welcomed English Heritage’s ‘Caring for Places of Worship’ report, and said that HLF would be considering how it might respond to the challenges set …

Heritage Lottery Fund invests £10.5m in four places of historic significance 27/07/2010 Sir Walter Scott’s home, ‘Abbotsford’, in the Borders; Newbridge Memorial Hall in Caerphilly; a Tudor dwelling house known as ‘The Walronds’ in Devon; and the …

Four historic UK parks win £6.4m Lottery investment 20/12/2010 All four parks are now set to undergo major redevelopment work. Initial joint HLF / BIG support** and development funding totalling £1m has also been awarded to 11 parks across the UK. Carole …

Heritage Lottery Fund announces more money for major projects and greater flexibility in tough economic climate 02/08/2010 This will be achieved in two ways: By increasing HLF’s allocation for major projects from £20m pa to £30m pa from 2011 onwards.  By …

HLF celebrates 15 years of funding heritage in the capital 12/05/2009 Heritage and community groups in boroughs across the capital are celebrating today with news that the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded them over £200,000 in funding to tell their …

A Magnificent Town and its Flying Machines 29/04/2009 Bexley does not seem to feature significantly in the history of powered flight, but all that is about to change. Stand aside the Wright Brothers and Charles Lindbergh as the town of Crayford steps into …

Black role model project launched 21/01/2009 A £37,200 grant has gone to BTWSC (formerly known as Beyond The Will Smith Challenge), which will research the lives of at least 30 British male role models of African descent over the century from 1907. A team …

More than £3m for East of England’s Historic Places of Worship 18/02/2011 The grants were awarded under the organisations’ joint Repair Grants for Places of Worship scheme.* Nationally, since 2002, almost £140million of grants have been awarded for more …