National Lottery Heritage Grants

150th Anniversary of Todmorden Town Hall

Applicant: Friends of Todmorden Town Hall

Project description: To hold a week of events, including theatre, history and community events, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Todmorden Town Hall and to preserve elements of the projects.

Decision: Award grant of £38,410 (60.1%)

Vogue

Applicant: Manchester Youth Empowerment Club

Project description: To preserve and invigorate Yoruba cultural heritage among young Nigerians in Manchester through a documentary and workshops. 

Decision: Award grant of £55,076 (100%)

Andrew Street Pond

Applicant: Andrew Street Pond Association

Project description: To make Andrew Street Pond more accessible to the community and create a healthy pond to attract wildlife.

Decision: Award grant of £25,849 (100%)

Flagship Blyth Sustainability Development Project

Applicant: Blyth Tall Ship

Project description: To create the capacity for a sustainable future by developing new income streams via visitor and training initiatives and targeting the national tourism market.

Decision: Award grant of £249,900 (100%)

Manchester Music Map

Applicant: Dig Media Ltd

Project description: To share Manchester’s musical legacy through preserving heritage collections with an online digital platform and partnering with key collaborators.

Decision: Award grant of £249,894 (100%)

Protest!

Applicant: Initiative Arts Projects Ltd

Project description: To collect, index and preserve the oral history of LGBTQ+ people who have engaged in protests around the Manchester city-region between 1967 and the present day.

Decision: Award grant of £143,326 (98.18%)

Accessing Tyldesley's Heritage

Applicant: Leigh, Atherton and Tyldesley Heritage Group CIC

Project description: To continue work of Tyldesley Town Centre Heritage Action Zone and help acquire a key building in Tyldesley Town Centre to create a community heritage attraction based around the underground mines.

Decision: Reject

The Hive: Survive to Thrive

Applicant: Nenthead Chapel Enterprises Ltd

Project description: The next step in development of The Hive. To develop a programme of heritage events, generate local and regional interest in hire of the space and have volunteers manage week-to-week operation to be a community-led, volunteer-run operation.

Decision: Award grant of £79,870 (100%)

The Armed Services: Huddersfield Forgotten Windrush Heroes

Applicant: Kirklees Local Television Limited

Project description: To produce a 90-minute digital documentary with digital educational learning resource, ‘Huddersfield Windrush Veterans: They Served with Honour’, for schools.

Decision: Award grant of £131,868 (100%)

Stockton and Darlington Railway – Trail of Discovery

Applicant: Durham County Council

Project description: To deliver accessible digital wayfinding with an interactive game to increase understanding of the heritage of the 26 miles of Stockton and Darlington Railway route.

Decision: Award grant of £247,740 (49.47%)

From Prejudice to Prides

Applicant: Body Positive Cheshire and North Wales

Project description: To preserve the LGBTQ+ history of Cheshire by documenting the lived experience of the community's population, including collecting oral histories and personal artifacts as well as using multimedia to build a comprehensive archive.

Decision: Award grant of £249,318 (90.89%)

St Michael and All Angels, Mottram in Longdendale – The Church on the Hill, and with the work we propose, ensuring it remains on the hill for another thousand years

Applicant: St Michael and All Angels, Mottram in Longdendale

Project description: To make internal and external restorations to St Michaels and All Angels to ultimately hold engagement activities with the community, as well as train volunteers.

Decision: Award grant of £247,361 (71.45%)

Nobody Did It Better – Saving Piccadilly Radio

Applicant: Manchester City Council

Project description: To preserve and transform access to the Piccadilly Radio archive, ensuring it remains accessible at Manchester Central Library by training volunteers and improving finding aids. The project will also curate clips and ephemera at the Manchester Digital Music Archive (MDMA) and commission podcasts. 

Decision: Award grant of £99,006 (96.93%)

Save Standish Spire

Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Wilfrid's Standish

Project description: To repair the spire of St Wilfrid’s Church and increase outreach to the community in the borough of Wigan.

Decision: Award grant of £216,992 (37.73%)

Data Mining

Applicant: Things That Go On Things Ltd

Project description: To connect five different community groups of Wigan and Leigh to their local heritage by illustrating the link between mining history and green spaces through use of digital technologies.

Decision: Reject

Swaledale & Wensleydale Environmental Farmers – SWEF

Applicant: Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Project description: To establish and sustain a group of environmentally minded farmers and moorland managers within the Yorkshire Dales, to deliver environmental goods and services (nature recovery, habitats and hedgerows, cleaner water, flood mitigation, carbon sequestration, protection of environmental heritage assets such as stone walls) more effectively in collaboration.

Decision: Award grant of £99,775 (100%)

Near Far Heron

Applicant: Heron Corn Mill (Beetham) Ltd

Project description: To achieve and develop the training of a millwright over a three-year period at Heron Corn Mill and help with other watermills in the Northern region.

Decision: Award grant of £192,301 (86.31%)

Exploring African Heritage and Culture

Applicant: Cee Bee Gold Foundation International

Project description: To hold workshops celebrating African household traditions and to engage participants with conversations surrounding African history. 

Decision: Reject 

HOPE – Heritage Outings for Personal Empowerment

Applicant: Stable Minds CYP CIC

Project description: To improve youth mental wellbeing with Tatton Park’s natural heritage by holding ‘Walk and Talk’ sessions in Tatton Park.

Decision: Reject

Heritage in Motion

Applicant: North East Dance CIC

Project description: To work with people across different generations and cultures to use heritage dance culture to connect communities and share bonds. 

Decision: Reject

Barton Heritage

Applicant: The Ropewalk (Barton) Ltd

Project description: To use the evaluation from their pilot project to inform a wider-reaching plan to establish heritage access in Barton upon Humber and support Barton organisations to develop. 

Decision: Reject

Magdale Heritage Trail

Applicant: Honley Village Community Trust CIO

Project description: To connect footpaths, install a bridge, staircase and gateway and refurbish the old chapel to allow visitors to see various parts of the water management system, as well as put together a programme of information.

Decision: Reject

Sunderland Strongholds: Defending our Past, Present and Future

Applicant: Tactic North East CIC

Project description: To work with vulnerable and autistic adults to deliver community-led workshops and create an area-specific board game based on the history of Sunderland’s coastal defences.

Decision: Reject

100 Years of Black Music

Applicant: POD Positive Development CIC

Project description: To celebrate the heritage and contributions of black music over the past century by exploring musical instruments and styles from the early 1900s, and provide meaningful opportunities for young black people in Toxteth, Liverpool.

Decision: Reject

Congolese Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebration heritage

Applicant: Holy Land Eye Of The Lord Church CIC

Project description: To preserve the traditional Congolese heritage and skills related to Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations in Gorton, Manchester.

Decision: Reject 

Voices of Resilience: Documenting the Heritage of Iranian Migrants in the UK

Applicant: Iranian Liverpool Community

Project description: To preserve and celebrate the heritage of the UK’s first generation of Iranian migrants through recording and sharing their narratives of migration and cultural integration, focusing on these personal histories.

Decision: Reject

St Brigid's Arms: Voices of Womxn of Irish Heritage in the North of England

Applicant: Emerald LENS CIC

Project description: To hold community exhibitions and an online digital art experience around the stories and experiences of women of Irish heritage in the North of England.

Decision: Reject

Our House of Irish Stories

Applicant: Our House Community

Project description: To connect the people of Walton, Liverpool, with their Irish ancestry through connecting with local elderly people who will tell their history with Irish oral storytelling and a documentary film.

Decision: Reject