Press releases

Champion Boxer Henry Cooper’s South London training pub gets £4m National Lottery restoration

20/10/2016

£4million HLF Heritage Enterprise grant for social landlord Phoenix Community Housing to deliver sustainable future for The Fellowship Inn, Bellingham.
New lease of life for world’s first assembly line

19/10/2016

Long Shop Museum set to be transformed thanks to £2million Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) support.
UK’s oldest theatre and largest open air museum awarded funding

13/10/2016

Bristol Old Vic and Beamish Museum among projects benefiting from £48million thanks to National Lottery players.
Templemore Baths regeneration one step closer following £5million National Lottery grant

11/10/2016

A major new project to revitalise the last surviving Victorian public baths in Ireland is one step closer following the award of almost £5million…
Prime Minister appoints new trustee to NHMF/HLF Board

07/10/2016

Sir Peter Luff, Chair of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF)/Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), today welcomed the appointment by the Prime Minister of a…
Exciting community future for historic Wigmore church

06/10/2016

The Wigmore Centre Community Interest Company (CIC) has received a development grant of £170,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to help progress plans…
£2.85million Heritage Lottery boost helps communities get closer to nature

06/10/2016

Communities in the Cairngorms and Skye are celebrating major National Lottery investment which will see large areas of landscape along with many historic and…
From dung collecting to buying the world’s most expensive diamond

23/09/2016

Using Richard Burton’s diaries, young people investigate growing up in a changing Port Talbot - through the eyes of one of the town’s most…
Armagh Pipers Club to explore Irish traditional musical heritage

19/09/2016

A new project from Armagh Pipers Club is set to explore 50 years of Irish Traditional musical heritage, with the help of a £36,000…
Public parks face decline

07/09/2016

New report from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) calls for collaborative national and local action to deliver new ways of funding and managing parks…