Wales
![Two people do an activity in the foundry building, a large brick industrial building at the National Slate Museum in Wales](/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_desktop/public/media/imgs/national_slate_museum_wales_foundry_1.jpg.webp?itok=cxmc7dJe)
From our coastlines and castles to our landscapes, literature and the oldest spoken language in Europe, Wales has an ancient and mythical heritage. It’s the land of rolling hillsides, historic ruins and an industrial heritage that once saw Welsh slate and coal being exported across the world.
Take a look below at some of the projects we have funded.
Funding
National Lottery Heritage Grants
Our National Lottery Heritage Grants funding programme is open – if you have an idea for a project in Wales, we would love to hear from you. Grants are available from £10,000 up to £10m.
Find out more and apply for funding.
Local Places for Nature Capital Fund
A grant scheme helping communities in Wales to restore and enhance nature, offering grants between £10,000 and £250,000.
Application advice events
Our regular funding workshops and advice sessions are a great opportunity to:
- find out about our funding
- get tips on how to make a good application
- network with other organisations from your area
Contact us
Follow us on Twitter/X: @HeritageFundCYM
Email: wales@heritagefund.org.uk
Telephone: 029 2034 3413 (Monday to Friday, 9.00am–5.00pm)
Address: Clockwise Offices, Brunel House, 2 Fitzalan Road, Cardiff, C24 0EB
We are fully operational and open for business, but we are conducting much of our day-to-day business remotely.
Please send any items via email to your contact or via: wales@heritagefund.org.uk
Contacting us in Welsh
We welcome telephone calls (Option 1 to speak to a member of staff in Welsh) and emails in both Welsh and English. Using Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.
For further information on the Welsh Language and to hear more on our current progress in updating our current Welsh Language Scheme, please visit our Welsh Language page.
Visiting and access
If you wish to visit us in person, please email or call us in advance to book an appointment.
Access to the building is on a flat paved surface and there are both revolving and power-assisted doors. The entrance to reception is stepped with assistance handrails, and there is also a wheelchair-accessible platform lift. The office is located on the reception floor, and is accessible. There are accessible toilets in the building and passenger lifts to all floors.
Projects
Tithe Barn Restoration Project
The Tithe Barn, part of St Mary’s Priory Abergavenny, has been preserved and stabilised, ensuring future visitors can enjoy and learn about its history.
Projects
Bridgend Townscape Heritage Initiative Phase II
The historic commercial core of the once flourishing town of Bridgend is to be further conserved and redeveloped as part of an ongoing initiative to drive forward economic and social regeneration.
![Pontypool Townscape Heritage Initiative A street in Pontypool](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/pontypool_town_centre_thi_2_.jpg.webp?itok=Jv9k44Oj)
Projects
Pontypool Town Centre THI
The Pontypool Townscape Heritage Initiative is contributing to Torfaen County Borough Council’s regeneration strategy and vision for Pontypool town centre.
![Gweilch Dyfi Gweilch Dyfi](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/360_observatory.jpg.webp?itok=tBZsjh7C)
Projects
The Dyfi Osprey Project
In 2009, Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust used an HLF grant to help protect the ospreys on the Cors Dyfi reserve.
Projects
Bringing the past alive
Repairing the Grade I Church of St Nicholas, and restoring and relocating a 17th century monument, provided the impetus for a new interpretation and activity programme. This involved many young people and adults from the village and further afield.
![Wood panel from Bute Park Wood panel from Bute Park](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/pk-05-01776_woodpanel2-resized.jpg.webp?itok=7kcmtZGs)
Projects
Bute Park Restoration
Bute Park is a Grade I listed park in Cardiff that was restored to protect and enhance one of Cardiff's most cherished and popular attractions.
![Back-a-yard Two young people look at a photo](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/shaundaughterlenaine.png.webp?itok=YvdC25Ii)
Projects
Back-a-yard
This project was designed to give young people the opportunity to preserve the heritage of the African Caribbean community living in Newport.
Projects
Family Lines, Family Trails
Using National Lottery money, The Romani Cultural and Arts Company have been able to record, celebrate and preserve the cultural heritage of Gypsy and Traveller communities in South Wales.
![Big Pit National Mining Museum Children visit Big Pit National Mining Museum](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/big_pit_national_mining_museum_of_wales_1_.jpg.webp?itok=RU_uHdPq)
Projects
Big Pit: National Mining Museum of Wales
Big Pit Mining Museum, with its underground workings, buildings, machinery and extensive collections, is the best surviving example of the mining industry in Wales.
![Projects participants recording and performing new musical works Projects participants recording and performing new musical works](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/robert_ap_huws.jpg.webp?itok=I7FGuTDH)
Projects
Medieval Music Mashup: A celebration of Robert ap Huws manuscript in modern times
Young people learned about ancient Welsh music and were taught how to use modern digital devices to create their own new compositions.
![Mothers Then & Now Young women made vintage clothing based on the oral histories they had collected](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/hd-heritage-0047.jpg.webp?itok=djaYifwG)
Projects
Sharing the social history of women from 1900 to now
Young women from different ethnic backgrounds investigated and learned about the changing role of women over the past 100 years.
Projects
Bird in a Cage: The achievements of Lady Rhondda and the WSPU Newport
Pupils in Newport and Caerphilly researched the history of Lady Rhondda, celebrating her contribution to the suffragette movement and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Newport.