National Lottery Heritage Grants

SWI Heritage Project – Preserving the Past to Inspire the Future

Applicant: Scottish Women's Institutes SCIO

Project description: To catalogue, preserve and digitise the heritage of the Scottish Women’s Institute (SWI) via its collection of archives and artifacts.

Decision: Award grant of £127,175 (86%)

A walled garden where people and plants grow

Applicant: Cambo Heritage Trust

Project description: To carry out necessary capital repairs and replanting activity to Cambo Walled Garden, part of Cambo Estate, as well as delivering an associated learning and activity programme.

Decision: Reject

Sustainable Future

Applicant: Paxton Trust

Project description: To create a seven-pod glamping village on the Tweed footpath, whilst also working to diversify volunteer engagement, working with local schools and developing trails in the grounds to support the aim of financial sustainability for the Trust.

Decision: Award grant of £250,000 (42%)

Shire Radio: Our Lanarkshire Project

Applicant: Shire Radio

Project description: To work collaboratively to celebrate the diverse cultural and industrial heritage of local towns, through preserving and sharing the memories of their industrial past through storytelling, poetry and music/song.

Decision: Reject

Resourcing Reminiscence

Applicant: Living Memory Association

Project description: Living Memory Association seeks to use their expertise in community history to help groups across Scotland gain the confidence, skills and support to run their own heritage projects.

Decision: Award grant of £207,120 (97%)

Arthur's Seat Visitor Centre

Applicant: Dynamic Earth Charitable Trust

Project description: To tell the story of Arthur’s Seat and Holyrood Park, transforming how audiences across Scotland, the UK and internationally engage with the area’s scientific and cultural heritage.

Decision: Reject

Projections of Heritage: Illuminating Aberdeen's Art and Architecture

Applicant: Aberdeen City Council

Project description: By utilising large-scale digital projections to display digitised adaptations of art and artefacts from Aberdeen Art Gallery collections, the project seeks to create an immersive experience that brings heritage to life on the facades of numerous historic buildings.

Decision: Reject