Community heritage

A former North Wales miner learnt his HLF funding bid had been successful.

A new exhibition unveiled this weekend at the South Wales Miners Museum in Port Talbot was visited by locally born Hollywood star Michael Sheen, who went back to his Port Talbot roots to see first hand how the museum is bringing mining history into the 21st century.

Did you know that HLF support projects specifically for young people? Our Young Roots programme does exactly that!

Durga Puja is one of the biggest festivals in India - and now, thanks to National Lottery players, Hindu and non-Hindu communities in south Wales are working together in a £20,000 project, sharing their cultural history to create the festival’s all-important Durga idols.

A group of specialist heritage horticulturalists have now graduated at the RHS Flower Show in Cardiff, having gained a unique qualification partly funded by National Lottery players.

Young people are about to look back – but certainly not in anger – as they embark on a new project to uncover some of Wales’s best kept musical secrets.

A new project led by local sixth formers is aiming to capture the numerous musical memories of Rockfield Studios in Monmouth.

2016 promises to be a great year for 16 projects across Wales, as HLF announces awards worth over £3.5million.

Volunteering in Cardiff 1914-2014 is a two-year project that will explore the story of volunteering in the Southern Arc of Cardiff over the last century

A series of letters penned by a local soldier has been the focus of a powerful project led by Narberth Museum

A group of north Wales Scouts are on a quest to find out more about one of their original members who was awarded the highest military accolade during the First World War.

The University of South Wales and HLF are taking Monmouthshire back to its Roman roots using state of the art 3D technology.