It's 25 years since The National Lottery began. In celebration, staff from The National Lottery Heritage Fund take a look back at some of our favourite memories.

As the largest dedicated grant funder of the UK’s heritage, our distribution of National Lottery funding has reached every corner of the country. Over the past 25 years we've helped deliver significant benefits to historic and treasured buildings, wildlife and habitats, parks and the great outdoors

Together, our gardens and outdoor spaces create a vast living landscape. With an estimated 24million gardens in the UK, you can help make a big difference to the natural world right on your doorstep.

Great Yarmouth A stone’s throw from the heart of The Broads and its sprawling landscape in the East of England, is the seaside town of Great Yarmouth. As we hear more and more that our coastal towns are suffering from neglect, National Lottery funding over the last 25 years has aimed to buck the

The National Lottery-funded Colour of Love project captured the poignant stories of mixed-race couples and their families in 1940s–1970s Nottinghamshire. Here are some of our favourites.

Why did you want to make this film? I had the idea for about 25 years. I'm an African-Caribbean British Yorkshireman. I was born here, raised here. I saw my mother and father go through racism, I went through it at school. Then when I came out of the military, I couldn’t even get a job, people were

“The River Roch ran beneath our feet encased in slabs of grey concrete but now it runs again so free as once it was and so should be..."* Set on the foothills of the sweeping Pennines, Rochdale was the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution. A hub of the ancient wool trade, by the 1900s the booming