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Abbotsford from the garden
Abbotsford, home of Sir Walter Scott

Stories

Gardens set to provide a green oasis

Thanks to National Lottery players, we are helping several of the UK's most-beloved gardens survive the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Professor Duncan Morrow

Blogs

From "unsettlement" to a new future

There have been few more global events disruptive of the pattern of life than the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Yet the impacts of the pandemic – which are only just beginning to be understood – only amplify an already unsettled outlook. "Unsettledness" is becoming a way of life." People are on
Socially distanced park cafe
St Ann’s Wells Gardens in Hove practicing social distancing

News

New guidance to help parks in England reopen

The Managing public parks during COVID-19 guide brings together the latest advice available to help managers of green spaces safely reopen them to the public as lockdown eases. The guide is produced with key input from: The National Lottery Heritage Fund Local Government Association the National
Illustration of speech bubbles, one with a question mark

News

Heritage Emergency Fund FAQs

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has put together a £50million fund to support the heritage sector as an immediate response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.  
Four nurses
Credit: NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives

Stories

Celebrating 70 years of the NHS

To mark International Nurses Day, we spoke to Dr Stephanie Snow, project director of NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives.
Ros Kerslake

Blogs

Returning to a changed heritage world

As our CEO Ros Kerslake returns to work after six months of illness, she reflects on the personal challenges she’s overcome, and what the heritage sector now faces.
Peter Middleton
Peter Middleton

News

Heritage Emergency Fund application form guidance

Peter Middleton helped us to develop the Heritage Emergency Fund application form’s finance questions and related guidance. In these two video interviews he: gives advice to organisations completing the application form takes applicants through a typical cashflow forecast “[Heritage Emergency Fund
Arty photo of person with a camera
Experimental photography at Llannon Cottage, Ceredigion

Blogs

Engaging young people in heritage from home

I often hear it said that it is difficult to get young people involved in heritage. I do not believe this to be true, and we have had no difficulty in attracting young people to be part of the Royal Commission’s youth engagement project, Unloved Heritage?. This has been running for three years now

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