Wales

Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund are investing £34m in some of the UK’s most precious, yet tired green spaces.

Cardigan Castle, birthplace of the Eisteddfod – Wales’ iconic cultural festival – once again saw its mighty walls filled with the sounds of traditional music and literature, as the castle played host to a celebratory concert last night (25 June).

A celebration event was held and a plaque unveiled to mark the completion of hugely successful restoration work to Cardiff’s historic Bute Park.

A four-year restoration project to transform Cardiff’s historic Bute Park has been celebrated today with an event unveiling a plaque marking the completion of the successful project.

Richard has worked with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in a variety of roles since 2002 after beginning his career working in the construction materials industry, which included working on the construction of the Channel Tunnel. With BA Hons degrees in Economics and in Rural Resource Management

Llangollen Chain Bridge will today be re-opened to the public for the first time in over 30 years. Eddie Butler, rugby commentator and presenter of the former BBC Wales series Hidden Histories, will officially re-open the bridge which is thought to be the oldest chain links bridge in the world.

Five categories in the running as National Trust Wales competition returns with new format for 2015.

2014 was the year the world celebrated the life and work of one of Wales’ most famous poets and Swansea’s most famous son, Dylan Thomas, one hundred years on from his birth.

Interested in learning new conservation management skills through hands-on work-based experience? Then a series of taster days run by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority could be exactly what you’re looking for.

8 May 1945 marked not only the beginning of peacetime in Wales but for many it marked the end of a long period of uncertainty, loss and sacrifice.

With help from HLF, a group of local volunteers helped restore the town’s ‘Bonded Store’. This ws a once closed-off building within Narberth; locked to the local community and a former store of kegs full of duty-free whisky, brandy and rum, only accessible with the opening of double locks on the

Named in 1948 in honour of the 5th Marquess of Bute, Bute Park lies at the heart of Cardiff and was originally gifted to the people of Cardiff to enjoy this 56 hectares of green, open space. It provides historical and wildlife interests within the park boundaries of Cardiff Castle grounds; a