Wales: delegated decisions June 2024
Grant increases
The Redevelopment of Amgueddfa Lechi Cymru, Llanberis
Applicant: The National Museum of Wales (Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru)
Decision: Agree change in grant percentage from 44% to 78.96%
National Lottery Heritage Grants
Denbigh and World War 2. Commemoration of D Day 80 years 2024
Applicant: British Legion Denbigh & District
Project Description: This five-month project aims to commemorate the D-Day Landings and connect the residents of Denbigh to the Second World War heritage of the town.
Decision: Reject
Shared History: Safeguarding Heritage and Community Engagement
Applicant: Insole Court Trust - Ymddiredolaeth Cwrt Insole
Project Description: This 23 month project (June 2024 – May 2026) aims to catalogue, digitise, appropriately store and share the 30-year Insole Court archive collated by the Archive Volunteers. The project seeks to increase commercial opportunities through building on the events programme, diversifying their audience and volunteers and providing training and investment in their volunteers.
Decision: Reject
#HP Pathways to the past: Involving volunteers and connecting communities in Neath Port Talbot to their heritage.
Applicant: Tempo Time Credits Ltd
Project Description: This two-year project aims to tackle the challenges the heritage sector in Neath Port Talbot is facing in recruiting and retaining volunteers. The project will take a place-based approach to connect local people to the heritage of the area with a view to sustaining and protecting the heritage and engaging new volunteers, sites, groups and organisations.
Decision: Award
Empowering Voices, Exploring Worldviews
Applicant: Lincoln Diocesan Board of Education
Project Description: This project seeks to research, develop and co-create a thirty-minute podcast episode along with a new radio play co-created with Welsh young people and Buddhists. It will produce an interview with Welsh educationalists, Buddhists and heritage experts exploring cultural property, intangible culture, natural heritage and digital heritage.
Decision: Reject
Llangollen Museum Survival and Heritage Sustainability Programme
Applicant: Llangollen Museum
Project Description: This sixteen-month project looks to ensure the survival and sustainability of Llangollen Museum and to reduce the risk to its collection posed by failing infrastructure.
Decision: Award
KFOR and Kosovo +25 - 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
Applicant: HEARTSTONE CONFEDERATION OF INTERNATIONAL STORY CIRCLES CIC
Project Description: This project looks to create and present an exhibition of the work of lQDG, based at Cardiff Castle’s Firing Line Museum, covering their role as peacekeepers in the Kosovo conflict during the year 2000–01 and to hold a series of activities directly linked to and centred around the images. The project marks the 25th anniversary of their involvement.
Decision: Award