National Lottery Heritage Grants

High Street Chapel Building Project

Applicant: Friends of High Street Baptist Church

Project Description: This is a two-month project aimed at repairing a crack on the rear pine end wall of the chapel building, resulting in damp penetration directly behind the pipe organ.

Decision: Award grant of £47,195 (99%)

Learning from the Past: Giving to the Future

Applicant: Down to Earth Project

Project Description: This two-year project aims to deliver a range of educational, wellbeing-centred programmes and training courses in traditional and natural building and sustainable land management to young people and adults from disadvantaged and vulnerable communities groups in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire.

Decision: Reject

Camlas Aberhonddu | Brecon Canal 225

Applicant: Canal & River Trust

Project Description: A 16-month project (December 2024 to March 2026) of practical conservation works at three heritage sites anda  series of events, workshops and exhibitions in celebration of the Camlas Aberhonddu | Brecon Canal 225 year anniversary.

Decision: Reject

40 Years On: LGBTQ+ activism and life in Wales 1985–2025

Applicant: Cardiff Wales Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Mardi Gras

Project Description: A four-month project (December 2024 to March 2025) to deliver a range of activities across LGBTQ+ History Month to celebrate, raise awareness of and combat the erasure of LGBTQ+ history in Wales while collecting and preserving stories and artefacts.

Decision: Award grant of £26,220 (100%)

Building Sustainability and Resilience: Heneb – the Trust for Welsh Archaeology

Applicant: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology

Project Description: This is a two-year project aimed at consolidating the newly established Heneb as a resilient and sustainable organisation on a national scale. The project will look to strengthen the organisation’s operations, strategy and public engagement work and to increase volunteer participation, create a stronger digital presence and diversify revenue streams.

Decision: Award grant of £238,150 (100%)

Bronheulog / Women's Institute Cottage Modernisation

Applicant: Llanafan Women's Institute

Project Description: This is a seven-month project (December 2024 – June 2025) aimed at improving Llanafan Women’s Institute’s Grade II listed meeting place, Bronheulog, in Ceredigion. Lack of central heating and mains water, along with uncomfortable seating, currently means there are barriers to access for those who may wish to attend the WI meetings.

Decision: Award grant of £11,782 (96%)

Growing Communities

Applicant: Ein Cegin CIC

Project Description: The project is scheduled to last 12 months. The main project aims are to work to increase access to nutritious, sustainably-produced food through free community cooking workshops and hot food provision, bringing people together to cook and eat local, seasonal, fresh food. It will bring deprived and vulnerable families together to explore their food history, gather food stories and memories and celebrate local food heritage.

Decision: Award grant of £16,550 (100%)

Casgliad Cof/Memory Collection

Applicant: Making Sense CIO

Project Description: This two-year project looks to create a permanent memory collection (casgliad cof) of everyday items from the 1950s to 1980s to use as reminiscence resources for people affected by dementia.

Decision: Reject

Ynys Greigiog – Building Resilience at Ynys-hir / Ynys Greigiog – Adeiladu Gwydnwch yn Ynys-hir

Applicant: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Project Description: This is a three-year fast-tracked project to purchase land adjacent to RSPB Cymru’s Ynys-Hir nature reserve, reverse its ecological decline and increase the scope of their habitat management.

Decision: Award grant of £205,005 (49%)

Grant increase

The extension, enhancement and future-proofing of the Y Lanfa Community and Cultural Hub and Wharf.

Applicant: Powys County Council 

Project Description: As part of this project, an extension to Y Lanfa building is being created – the existing canopy on the building will be enclosed on two sides with glazing and on the third with a cedar-clad wall providing a new two-storey space. This will create a flexible and more accessible community space as a venue for local groups and enable more exhibitions and educational programmes.

Decision: Reject