National Lottery Heritage Grants

Robert The Bruce 750th Anniversary Festival

Applicant: It's not all Black and White CIC

Project description: This project will deliver a two-day festival in Dunfermline celebrating the 750th anniversary of Robert the Bruce’s birth.

Decision: Award grant of £10,000

Cerebrating Communities Cultural (CCC)

Applicant: Gambians and friends in Scotland Community Association

Project description: This five-year project aims to deliver an expanded annual festival which would provide an opportunity for people from a range of cultural backgrounds to come together to share their heritage and traditions.

Decision: Reject

Listen Gallery

Applicant: Listen Gallery CIC

Project description: This 9 month project will enable Listen Gallery to continue its core work of providing sound arts based opportunities and exhibitions, and to make improvements to the gallery to improve accessibility and to enable it to provide some rentable space.

Decision: Reject

Earthbound Orkney

Applicant: Earth Building UK & Ireland Limited

Project description: This project seeks to celebrate and explain the heritage of natural clay subsoils within the context of use as building materials.

Decision: Award grant of £25,000

Newmilns Mulitmedia Heritage Project and Trail

Applicant: Newmilns Regeneration Association

Project description: This project aims to conduct a broad exploration of built, social, ecclesiastical, political and sporting heritage relating to the Ayrshire village of Newmilns and the wider burgh of Newmilns and Greenholm.

Decision: Award grant of £56,014

Doorie Hill Dyke

Applicant: Burghead Headland Trust SCIO

Project description: The Trust aims to embark on a conservation project to remove the inappropriate harled 1960's wall and replace with a traditional, authentic Dry Stane Dyke.

Decision: Reject

Bridging the Past Heritage Programme 2024

Applicant: Aberdalgie and Forteviot Church of Scotland

Project description: This project aims to save the local church, increasing engagement and offering development opportunities for groups within the local community.

Decision: Reject

Alloway Railway Tunnel ART

Applicant: Alloway Railway Tunnel ART SCIO

Project description: This project aims to focus on the delivery of a community project to create a mural and events venue in the former railway tunnel underneath the Auld Kirk and graveyard in Alloway, south of Ayr.

Decision: Reject

Bruce 750 – Celebrating the 750th Anniversary of the Birth of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots

Applicant: North Carrick Community Benefit

Project description: This place-focused project aims to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the birth of Robert the Bruce at Turnberry Castle in South Ayrshire, highlighting locally important history via a variety of events between July and November 2024.

Decision: Reject

Scottish Solway INNS Control and Knowledge Programme (Phase 2)

Applicant: Galloway Fisheries Trust

Project description: This project seeks to build on the Scottish Solway INNS Control and Knowledge Programme (phase 1) pilot project that was funded by Nature Scot’s Nature Restoration Fund. It aims to focus on the control and ultimate eradication of priority invasive non-native species (INNS) plants.

Decision: Award grant of £202,924

30th Craigalmond Scout Group's Centenary Oral History

Applicant: 30th Craigalmond Scout Group

Project description: This project seeks to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 30th Craigalmond Scout Group and has two key aims: first to preserve the group’s history over the last century and second to share the findings both within their membership and the broader community.

Decision: Award grant of £56,890

Rewilding Kinkell

Applicant: Rewilding Kinkell Ltd

Project description: This project aims to reverse the losses in Scottish biodiversity by rewilding 100 acres of former farmland outside St Andrews through targeted action for habitats and species.

Decision: Reject

Young Women Remember

Applicant: YWCA Scotland

Project description: The ‘Young Women Remember’ project aims to work on the need to collect, record and share the stories of support, connection and activism linked to YWCA Scotland. Led by young women, it will curate oral histories, written testimonies, video interviews, images and archival material into a ‘living’ digital archive that will continue to grow with young women’s stories in the future.

Decision: Award grant of £183,821

Reel Reflections: "Going to the Pictures" in Inverclyde

Applicant: Inverclyde Community Development Trust

Project description: This project aspires to preserve film heritage through community engagement. Through archival research, interviews with local residents, working in and with different mediums, the project seeks to showcase a unique and untold social history of Inverclyde.

Decision: Award grant of £99,894

'Lead turns Gold!' – The Museum of Lead Mining is 50!

Applicant: Wanlockhead Museum Trust

Project description: This project aims to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Museum of Lead Mining and maximise opportunities around this to raise the museum’s profile.

Decision: Award grant of £18,000

Grant percentage change

#FIRNS Arkaig Natural Capital: Regenerative Investment in Lochaber

Applicant: Achnacarry Estate

Project description: Partnership funding has been reduced due to some ineligible costs, which was not communicated to the applicant or NLHF at the time of award. The percentage change from 50% to 51.29% is requested so that the grantee does not have to reduce their project budget further.

Decision: Agree change in grant percentage from 50% to 51.29%