Board meeting: December 2023

Board meeting: December 2023

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Schedule of decisions from the Board of Trustees meeting in December 2023.

National Heritage Memorial Fund

Purchase of painting - "Patricia at Cockmarsh Hill", 1935, Sir Stanley Spencer RA 

Applicant: The Stanley Spencer Memorial Trust

Decision: Award grant of £450,000 (75%)

National Heritage Memorial Fund Covid-19 Response Fund – grant increase

CAF: Restoring the Gunpowder Mills

Applicant: Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills Company Ltd

Decision: Award grant increase of £58,883 to make a total grant of £479,458

National Lottery Heritage Fund – over £5m development round cases

Unlocking Highgate Cemetery

Applicant: Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust

Decision: Development grant of £105,703 (53%) and potential delivery grant of £6,694,297 (48%)

Accessing our Heritage - the Second World War Retold

Applicant: Imperial War Museum

Decision: Reject

People's Palace & Winter Garden: Glasgow's palace of the Imagination

Applicant: Glasgow City Council

Decision: Award development grant of £850,000 (28%) and potential delivery grant of £7,500,000 (21%)

Cultural Kilmarnock - The Global Stage

Applicant: East Ayrshire Leisure Trust

Decision: Reject

National Lottery Heritage Fund – Heritage Horizon Awards second round

Plymouth Sound National Marine Park

Applicant: Plymouth City Council

Decision: Award grant of £11,660,600 (53%)

Great Yarmouth Winter Gardens – Reimagining the People's Palace

Applicant: Great Yarmouth Borough Council

Decision: Award grant of £11,845,858 (64%)

Cairngorms 2030

Applicant: Cairngorms National Park Authority

Decision: Award grant of £10,770,577 (25%)

National Lottery Heritage Fund – grant increases

The restoration of Grade II listed Broomhill Pool to provide swimming, fitness and community facilities

Applicant: Fusion Lifestyle

Decision: Award grant increase of £3,389,845 to make a total grant of £6,886,145

Norwich Castle: Gateway to Medieval England

Applicant: Norfolk County Council

Decision: Award grant increase of £2,821,076 to make a total grant of £12,949,976

The Citizens Theatre Redevelopment

Applicant: Citizen’s Theatre

Decision: Award grant increase of £2,500,000 to make a total grant of £7,295,000

One item yet to be announced.