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Two people install an artwork in an exhibition
Installation of 'Hair: Untold Stories', Horniman Museum and Gardens, December 2021.

News

Art Fund calls for museum partners in new UK-wide programme

Apply to Going Places, a new initiative to help you engage new audiences with your collections through collaborative working and touring exhibitions.
A view across Tarbert harbour, in the foreground to the right are some leaves and a rocky foreshore. To the left is a jetty and a yacht. IN the background harbour front building with hill behind them.
Tarbert, one of eight Scottish places developing heritage driven regeneration.

News

Putting heritage at the heart of regenerating places

For the first time, we have joined forces with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to support heritage driven regeneration plans in communities across the nation. Together we've awarded £863,050 of development funding – of which just over half comes from the Heritage Fund – to eight projects
A young girl holds a cut out of a golden bird above her head. In the background are two adults working on a ladder.
The Flight of the Little Golden Swallow, inspired by Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince, is an installation of 150 gold leaf swallows on retail stores, community buildings and schools in and around Enniskillen centre. The swallows were created by Fermanagh artists Simon Carman and Helen Sharp. Credit: Brian Morrison.

Blogs

Inspiring pride in place through a volunteer-supported festival

Heritage Innovation Fund grantee Paul Sternberg shares how cohort working has given him new ideas, and how that’s helping him measure impact and strengthen pride in place.
A black and white photograph of four nurses in uniform.
A photograph from the archives.

Stories

Three projects that celebrate 75 years of the NHS

From oral histories to archive collections, we’ve awarded over £980,000 to three projects that record and preserve memories of our National Health Service (NHS), for use now and in the future.
Visitors taste food made with ingredients found in hedgerows at The Food Museum
Visitors take part in food recipe demonstrations, tasting ingredients found in hedgerows.

Stories

Case study: The Food Museum – Hedgerow

Sustainable Project of the Year joint winner, The Food Museum shares their experience of running a project that tackles one of our greatest environmental challenges – biodiversity loss.
A close up of a person conserving a painting on display in the National Portrait Gallery
A conservator works on a painting ready for the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery. Credit: David Parry

News

What can you see when the National Portrait Gallery reopens?

Following a transformational project, supported by a £9.4million National Lottery grant, the National Portrait Gallery in London has reopened its doors.
People enjoying an event in the courtyard of The Piece Hall
An event in the courtyard of The Piece Hall, which was revitalised with the help of National Lottery funding.

News

You can now apply for grants up to £10million

We’ve increased the upper limit of our National Lottery Grants for Heritage to support larger-scale heritage projects across the UK.

If you query is regarding our application portal, please contact our support team.