Areas, buildings and monuments

Awarded through HLF’s First World War: then and now programme, the project will focus on the home front and how the onset of the Great War had significant impact on local life. Rachael Kennedy, Town Events Manager is leading on this project and explained: “This series of events will enable the local

Since 1938, Limnerslease – the only remaining artist’s house and studio designed by Ernest George, celebrated Arts and Crafts architect and tutor to Lutyens - has been in private ownership. The property was divided and modernisation resulted in many of the original features being lost.For the first

Hendrix lived in the top floor flat of 23 Brook Street from 1968 to 1969, and described it as “the only home I ever had”. Ironically, the adjoining No. 25, was occupied by the great baroque composer George Frideric Handel two centuries before. This historic connection between rock and the baroque

In County Antrim, a project to share the traditional skill of dry stone walling is one of those set to benefit. Plans to restore 2.8km of dry stone walls in the Church Bay area of Rathlin Island received a £52,900 grant. Volunteers will be trained to restore the iconic dry stone walls which are in a

The project aims to restore the Albert Walker Hall within the church and Neighbourhood Centre building, to complete the refurbishment of the Neighbourhood Centre community areas. Development funding of £78,400 has also been awarded to help Linacre Mission progress their plans to apply for a full

£3.9m for Durham CathedralHLF’s investment will enable the display of original 13th-century copies of the Magna Carta alongside other artefacts in celebration of the 800th anniversary of the charter in 2015. The Monks’ Dormitory and Great Kitchen, some of the most intact medieval monastic rooms in

The project aims to preserve, restore and celebrate an outstanding ‘Capability’ Brown park, which includes a rare, Brown-designed and Grade I listed chapel.Development funding of £179,656 has also been awarded to help Compton Verney to progress its plans to apply for a full grant at a later date

Peterborough Cathedral has been awarded a grant of £2.46m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its 'Peterborough 900: Letting it speak for itself' project.

Heritage Lottery Fund earmarks funding for St Peter and the Old Black Lion, Northampton’s oldest pub, to conserve the building and link it to Northampton’s Heritage Gateway.

Two projects from Northern Ireland are among the first in the UK to benefit from the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) pioneering new funding programme, Heritage Enterprise. A huge £5.7million investment has been earmarked by HLF through the programme for the conservation and regeneration of the former

Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is announcing more than £12million of UK-wide funding that will transform five important but neglected historic buildings back to commercial use, creating economic growth in five local areas and an estimated 230 FTE jobs by attracting private investment. This

Spurn is a narrow, three-mile long arc of sand between the Humber Estuary and the North Sea with the Grade II listed lighthouse at its point. A £470,500 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) will enable the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to repair the building and open it for public access for the