Wales: delegated decisions January 2024
National Lottery Grants for Heritage
Montgomeryshire Habitats Management Group - Community Biodiversity Action Support
Applicant: Montgomeryshire Habitats Management Group
Project summary: Montgomeryshire Habitats Management Group is seeking funding for their initiatives. This will include website and forum costs, contributions to habitat improvement labour costs and equipment hire, member meetings, etc.
Decision: Reject
Forest School
Applicant: Friends of Abermorddu School
Project summary: The project aims to create a Forest School area by planting more trees, ensuring that facilitators are well trained in delivering sessions and equipment.
Decision: Reject
Llangynidr Heritage Interpretation Panel
Applicant: Llangynidr Local History Society
Project summary: To design, construct, and install an interpretation panel.
Decision: Award grant of £6,180.00 (98.41%)
Hen Dŷ Cwrdd: An Eisteddfod Tradition
Applicant: Ymddiriedolaeth Addoldai Cymru Welsh Religious Building Trust
Project summary: To develop the historic redundant chapel, Hen Dŷ Cwrdd, telling the eisteddfodic history and carrying out capital improvements with a view to increasing event capacity and community accessibility.
Decision: Award grant of £248,343.00 (81.66%)
The People's Charter: Voices for the Future
Applicant: The National Literacy Trust
Project summary: To explore new ways for under-served communities across Newport, Caerphilly and Torfaen to find personal and local connections to the rich heritage of the Chartism, with a focus on understanding how that heritage can inform and shape the vision for the future.
Decision: Reject
Playing our Part for Theatre Heritage and Access in North East Wales
Applicant: Theatr Clwyd Trust Ltd
Project summary: To undertake capital renovations of Theatr Clwyd, focusing on making the theatre fully accessible through structural improvements.
Decision: Award grant of £249,295.00 (39.93%)
River Wild: Connecting Nature and Community
Applicant: Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust Limited
Project summary: This project seeks to raise awareness of planned physical river restoration work being carried out by NRW at Llandinam Gravels and Dolydd Hafren.
Decision: Reject
Gladstone's Library: organisation, audiences and archives scoping project.
Applicant: Gladstone's Library
Project summary: To hire two engagement/learning officers to conduct audience research, emphasising engagement with young audiences (ages 16-24) through school and youth organisation partnerships, while exploring the transformation of library spaces like the Annex and Stephen Gladstone Hall into an archive centre/engagement area.
Decision: Award grant of £126,729.00 (92.5%)
The Goodwill Festival - Celebrating the Welsh and KwaZulu Natal Shared Heritage
Applicant: The Friends of The Royal Welsh Regimental Museum
Project summary: For the 145th anniversary of the Anglo-Zulu War, the nine-month project centres in Brecon, featuring a four-day Zulu Festival, workshops, publications, exhibitions, cultural exchanges, and performances across multiple locations, aimed at celebrating history and fostering community engagement.
Decision: Reject
Untold Stories of Welsh Global Heritage in Virtual Reality and Mixed Media
Applicant: Vision Fountain CIC
Project summary: A two-year project with a focus on collecting the untold stories of those who have migrated to Wales, with a focus on those of the older generation.
Decision: Award grant of £99,405.00 (100%)