National Lottery Heritage Grants

Loch Long One Design – Everyone's boat

Applicant: Cove Sailing Club

Project Description: The proposed project aims to preserve and celebrate Loch Long’s sailing heritage. Through a programme of activities, the Club aims to inspire a new generation to take up custodianship and maintenance of the Loch Long boats.

Decision: Reject

Barra and Harris Unearthed – developing place-based digital heritage interpretation in the Hebrides.

Applicant: UHI North West and Hebrides

Project Description: This project seeks to increase engagement, understanding and awareness of key heritage sites across Barra and Harris and to promote Gaelic culture and heritage. It seeks to capitalise on current momentum and investments in Hebridean heritage, culture and tourism.

Decision:  Reject

Plock College of the Environment and Traditional Skills / Colaiste Àrainneachd is Dualchais a'Phluic

Applicant: Kyle & Lochalsh Community Trust

Project Description: The project aims to set up an innovative new College of the Environment, Traditional Skills and Sustainability, using the Plock and the surrounding area as its classroom, with indoor workshop space in a new shed.

Decision: Award Grant of £234,170 (86% of total costs)

Guardians of Our Rivers: Next Steps

Applicant: Buglife – the Invertebrate Conservation Trust

Project Description: This project aims to help address the current biodiversity crisis, while tackling issues of isolation and lack of access to green and blue spaces. By offering training for volunteers, participants will gain new skills as well as a greater sense of ownership of their local waterways.

Decision: Award Grant of £228,152 (89% of total costs)

Davidson Legacy Cottage

Applicant: Davidson Legacy Cottage

Project Description: This project aims to save the Davidson Cottage, the home from which the Davidson family of Harley-Davidson emigrated to the USA from Scotland, through using its heritage and setting to support the community with informal activities that are open to everyone.

Decision: Reject    

Employing a Heritage Ranger for the Northern Pilgrims' Way and Northern Saints Trails

Applicant: Northern Pilgrims' Way Group SCIO

Project Description: This project aims to support the conservation and enhancement of the heritage along Northern Pilgrims’ Way routes, that connect between Tain and Kirkwall, which lists 49 sites including 15 scheduled monuments and eight listed buildings.

Decision: Reject

Mackintosh at the Willow: acquisition to operation

Applicant: The National Trust for Scotland

Project Description: This project, the second phase of NTS’s acquisition programme for the Willow Tea Rooms, aims to focus on three core strands: necessary building repairs to the A listed structure; a programme of community engagement and strengthening the business model by growing core audience and attracting new visitors.

Decision: Award Grant of £249,283 (100% of total costs)

Roots of Our Garden

Applicant: Greener Peebles

Project Description: This project aims to support designing and landscaping a patch of community garden to create a heritage garden alongside a programme of activities exploring traditional cultural uses of local plants.

Decision: Award Grant of £20,185 (100% of total costs)

Benholms Tower

Applicant: Tillydrone Community Development Trust SCIO

Project Description: This project seeks to restore external historical fabric and reinstate the historical exterior of a B listed building. This will be delivered alongside a larger scope of redevelopment works which will see the building become a multi-purpose facility for community benefit.

Decision: Award Grant of £56,623 (100% of total costs)

Glaswegians

Applicant: Cranhill Arts Project

Project Description: This project aims to train 65 residents from the East End of Glasgow in photographic archive training. It focuses on the selection, categorisation and digitisation of 100s of unpublished negatives from the 1989-1993 Glaswegian photographic archive.

Decision: Award Grant of £52,733 (93% of total costs)

Queensferry At War – Part 2

Applicant: Queensferry History Group

Project Description: This project seeks to capture local war stories before they are lost to time, or people leave the area. It would also help raise awareness of the 80th anniversary of VE Day and share the histories of local people who served during the Second World War.

Decision: Reject