Rockingham Forest Trust, which manages Stanwick Lakes, will run the four year Trading Places project to benefit communities and young unemployed people from Wellingborough to Thrapston. ‘Trading Places’ will focus on the local trades, skills and lives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in a

The project, which focuses on preserving and celebrating valuable traditional skills, will be delivered by PNBPT and the IBTC Portsmouth, the new, south coast branch of the long established International Boatbuilding Training College, specialists in traditional boatbuilding training. The centre will

Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is announcing a grant of £3,992,000 to transform the neglected Grade II listed Art Deco Globe Theatre on Stockton High Street into a live music and comedy venue with capacity for around 2,500 people. It is one of the first buildings to be awarded funding

Kirkbymoorside History Group (KHG) has received a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Sharing Heritage grant, it was announced today. This exciting project, Not Lost but Gone Before, in Kirkbymoorside and led by Kirkbymoorside History Group and All Saints PCC has been given £6,600 to restore and preserve

In 2012, director, Matthew Fox was granted access to the diaries – an estimated two million, handwritten words – spanning more than 40 years of Hill’s life. This personal testimony is the inspiration behind Punk Snow, a film directed by Fox and produced by Liverpool-based Thinking Film, a social

The bid led by the Canal and River Trust and supported by the Montgomery Canal Partnership which includes 14 partner organisations, is a key step to securing the full grant of £3.7m and a major step forward in the plans to fully restore the canal. Known for its outstanding natural beauty and

The V&A’s Exhibition Road development will create a new purpose-built underground gallery for the museum’s internationally renowned exhibitions, a magnificent courtyard space and a new entrance from the recently landscaped Exhibition Road on the west side of the museum. The V&A has already secured

The Youth Work Company, based in Wakefield, has received £49,900 from HLF for an exciting project based in the heart of Featherstone. The Teenage Kicks project will be led by young people from the local community and focus on youth culture in the area since the Second World War. Young people will

Today it was announced that Sunderland City Council secured initial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), paving the way for the development of a more detailed funding bid for in the next two years. HLF also awarded the council development funding of £53,200 to develop an activity plan

The Association for Suffolk Museums will lead a two-year project to enable 11 museums and heritage organisations to work with the local community to explore the impact of the decade that brought us the three day week, the package holiday, decimalisation and the first test tube baby among many other

The project aims to carry out essential repair work, increase community involvement and raise awareness of the historical importance of the church within the locality. This is a four-year project leading up to the celebration of the 600th anniversary of the building of the 15th-century nave which

Changing Bradford: Exploring South Asian Heritage in Bradford presents a fresh perspective on the impact made by South Asian people on a city which has become known for racial tension and economic blight, and will be launched at a special event to be held in the studio at Impressions Gallery on 5

As part of HLF’s First World War: then and now programme the project will provide an opportunity for school pupils to engage with and learn about their local heritage through researching the history of servicemen named on an existing First World War memorial plaque at the school.Jennifer Stewart

This exciting project aims to support and inspire a web of communities in the active involvement, participation and celebration of traditional orchard heritage in Kent over the next four years. The Kent Orchards for Everyone project will carry out essential restoration and conservation work with 15

One in three soldiers serving under British command in France came from India although their significant contribution to the war effort is largely unknown by today’s ethnic minority Londoners. The project Trench Brothers will help young people from London’s Asian community learn that the 1914-18

Today, their fight for survival has been given a helping hand as the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced funding for two natural heritage projects: the Scottish Dragon Finder, and the Scottish Wildcat Conservation project. The announcement of development funding for the Scottish Wildcat

A Suffolk-based social enterprise, New Heritage Solutions CIC, has been awarded a grant of £575,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to lead a three year programme of archaeology, oral history and museum development which will keep alive the momentous story of what’s become known as the

HMS M33 was rapidly built in 1915 as a coastal bombardment vessel. She served in the Dardanelles Campaign between 1915 and 1918, including providing support for the Gallipoli Campaign during 1915. In 1919 she was refitted and returned to action in the Russian Civil War, where she covered the