Blogs
UK Heritage Pulse – your voice heard
Our Head of Research, Data and Insight on how our new collaborative research project will help the Heritage Fund and the organisations we work with.
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Eilish McGuinness announced as our new Chief Executive
She brings a career's worth of experience – across the breadth of the UK's heritage – to the role.
Heritage Trust Network trustee Minder Kaur Athwal. Credit: Sarah Hayes
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'Trailblazing' projects to boost digital volunteering and leadership
National Lottery funding awarded to 17 volunteering projects as digital leadership programme returns.
Curator Edith Ojo in front of Aso-oke, a Celebration of Style display case. Credit: James Pike, Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove
Publications
Making real changes in collections development
Understanding the impact of our Collecting Cultures programme, and a look ahead to our new campaign, Dynamic Collections.
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£7million legacy for nature and communities for the Queen’s Jubilee
We’re investing in local nature projects and creating job opportunities for 70 young people to mark Her Majesty’s 70 years on the throne.
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Help us shape the future of heritage funding and strategy
We’re building a new research panel, bringing together people from across the heritage sector, to share views and knowledge and influence our work.
The current Lord Leycester Brethren. Credit: Kevin Fern
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A new chapter for the Lord Leycester Hospital
National Lottery funding – announced ahead of Remembrance Sunday – means former soldiers and their stories will continue to have a historic home in Warwick.
Michaela Strachan with the winners. Credit: Alex Wilkinson.
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Bumblebee champions win National Lottery Project of the Year Award
A project which has inspired more than 20,000 people to help protect bumblebees in the Peak District has won a National Lottery Award.
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£6million Trees Call to Action Fund now open
The fund – distributed on behalf of Defra – will help green projects in England to create woodlands, develop partnerships and skills and improve people’s access to nature.
Enjoying a Ukelele Sing-along in Pearson Park, Hull
Stories
How we're funding parks projects
We take a look at three thriving parks which are doing their bit for nature – and people.
Young people involved in Middlesbrough Environment City's Green Shoots project
Stories
Bringing people together in green spaces
How funding for nature in urban areas is helping unemployed young people and refugees find a fresh start.
The Waterscapes Aviary at Slimbridge
Credit: WWT and Amy Alsop
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Celebrating Slimbridge and 75 years protecting wetlands
A £4million project at the UK's first Wetland Centre is providing new experiences to inspire visitors to help the natural world.
Common toad
Stories
Our support for all species, including the unloved
Rare species like the pond mud snail and the European eel may not be photogenic, but they are crucial to the diversity of our ecosystem – and in need of our funding.
Ffestiniog Railway.
Credit: Christ Parry.
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Full steam ahead for the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways
North Wales’ largest tourist attraction has secured a £3.1million National Lottery Heritage Fund grant.
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Coastal communities to help wildlife of Dee Estuary
Cheshire Wildlife Trust to receive a £540,000 grant for conservation project bringing together communities in the North of England and Wales.
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Nature Networks Fund: £7.2million to protect Wales’ threatened species and habitats
29 projects across Wales that help preserve some of our most loved species of animals and plants are receiving a share of a £7.2million grant fund.
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Environmental champion Maxwell Apaladaga Ayamba wins National Lottery Award
The founder of charity Sheffield Environmental Movement recognised for his work opening up the outdoors to people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.