National Lottery Heritage Grants

Restoration of The Queen's Ballroom Exterior Façade

Applicant: Creations of Cymru Film and Media LTD

Project description: A 17-month project (January 2025 – June 2026) to restore the external façade of the Queen's Cinema building in Tredegar.

Decision: Reject

The Abercwmboi Hall, Institute and Heritage Project

Applicant: The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation

Project description: This is an 18-month project that looks to inform a future larger project to restore and repurpose Abercwmboi Workmen's Hall as a sustainable community hub.

Decision: Award grant of £146,923 (100%)

National Service: Veteran's Reflections

Applicant: Same but Different cic

Project description: The project will bring National Service to life through visual, aural and written stories from over 80 servicemen. The project will record the experiences and memories of National Service veterans and then make these stories available through live and digital exhibitions, podcasts, films and other media.

Decision: Reject

Botanical Colour – The Redpath Way

Applicant: Makepeace Studio CIC

Project description: A 12-month project (March 2025 – March 2026) to document, preserve and archive the heritage and natural dye recipe archive of Margaret and David Redpath, the last owners of Wallis Woollen Mill in Ambleston, Pembrokeshire. 

Decision: Reject

The Old Library Wrexham's Creative Digital Hub

Applicant: Wrexham County Borough Council

Project description: This project is part of a wider 11-month project aimed at repairing, refurbishing and extending the Grade II listed Old Library in Wrexham town centre to become a new multi-purpose creative digital hub, including space for exhibitions, live music and offices to hire.

Decision: Reject

Wales: Serving the Nation – Stories of National Service 1947–63. A bilingual focus on compulsory military service in Wales. Cymru: gwasanaethu'r genedl - Storïau'r Gwasanaeth Gwladol 1947–63. Ffocws dwyieithog ar wasanaeth milwrol gorfodol yng Nghymru.

Applicant: Age Cymru Dyfed

Project description: This is a two-year project aimed at gathering the stories of over 75 veterans of National Service, digitising them via the People's Collection Wales Veterans archive and sharing through community engagement and events. This is an all-Wales project.

Decision: Reject

Securing the Past and Serving the Future

Applicant: Community Arts Rhayader And District

Project description: CARAD propose a three-year project to fund three members of staff to help secure the museum's immediate future, plan exhibitions, increase community engagement and secure the organisation's sustainability.

Decision: Reject

Visions of Wales: Connecting communities in Powys with the life and legacy of the Davies sisters

Applicant: Oriel Davies Gallery

Project description: A three-year project (April 2025 – March 2028) to create a secure and climate-controlled 'spotlight' focus gallery dedicated to the Davies sisters' story at Oriel Davies Gallery in the centre of Newtown. The gallery will establish a rolling exhibition programme with items from the Davies collection on loan from other museums, alongside a collaborative programme of community engagement activities.

Decision: Reject