Board meeting: March 2024
National Heritage Memorial Fund
CAF: Emergency Repairs to Save Torre Abbey
Applicant: Torbay Council
Decision: Award grant increase of £120,000 to make a total grant of £483,748 (73.4%)
Saving Mavisbank House
Applicant: The Landmark Trust
Decision: Award grant of £5,300,000 (67.95%)
National Lottery Heritage Fund – over £5m development round cases
Transforming Heritage: Community, Creativity & Skills
Applicant: Rother District Council
Decision: Award a development grant of £229,258 (29%) and a potential delivery grant of £7,646,425 (29%)
The Abbey of St Edmund: A Millennium of English History in West Suffolk
Applicant: The Cathedral Church of Saint James and Saint Edmund, Bury St Edmunds
Decision: Award a development grant of £729,553 (90%) and potential delivery grant of £6,651,313 (74%)
Project Safe Haven
Applicant: The Unicorn Preservation Society
Decision: Reject
Building capacity to save Scotland’s rainforest
Applicant: The Woodland Trust
Decision: Award a development grant of £686,768 (84%) and potential delivery grant of £5,980,530 (74%)
The Redevelopment of Amgueddfa Lechi Cymru, Llanberis
Applicant: National Museum of Wales
Decision: Award a development grant of £412,565 (44%) and potential delivery grant of £9,440,414 (90%)
Wisdom begins with Wonder at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium: Where the past meets the future
Applicant: Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
Decision: Award a development grant of £1,323,381 (25%) and potential delivery grant of £4,941,166 (12%)
Creative Archives / Archifau Creadigol
Applicant: Flintshire County Council
Decision: Award a development grant of £177,000 (26%) and potential delivery grant of £7,194,397 (59%)
National Lottery Heritage Fund – Heritage Horizons (development grant increase)
HHA2019 International Slavery Museum: Igniting Ideas and Actions
Applicant: National Museums Liverpool
Decision: Award grant increase of £288,352 to make a total development phase grant of £3,247,252
National Lottery Heritage Fund – grant increases
Remaking Beamish
Applicant: Beamish Museum
Decision: Award grant increase of £1,000,000 to make a total grant of £12,866,700
Orkney Native Wildlife Project
Applicant: RSPB Scotland
Decision: Award grant increase of £2,518,766 to make a total grant of £6,750,166
Exeter Cathedral – the 2020s Vision. Phase 1 – Investing in our Welcome
Applicant: Dean & Chapter Exeter Cathedral
Decision: Award grant increase of £2,920,100 to make a total grant of £7,210,600
Ipswich Museum – inspiring a new generation
Applicant: Ipswich Borough Council
Decision: Award grant increase of £1,362,496.40 to make a total grant of £5,687,296.40
Stori Brymbo: A 300 Million Year Journey
Applicant: Brymbo Heritage Trust
Decision: Award grant increase of £3,388,616 to make a total grant of £7,535,816
National Lottery Heritage Fund – Strategic Initiatives (Heritage Places)
Sauchiehall Street: Culture and Heritage District
Applicant: Glasgow Life
Decision: Award grant of £350,000 (70%)
Three items yet to be announced.