Development funding of £37,900 has been awarded to help Doncaster Council’s Museums and Libraries services progress their plans to apply for a full grant in March 2014. A major objective of the project is to create a single and unique resource that commemorates the First World War as experienced by

Hundreds of fans and the media packed into the Tolson Museum to view the eagerly anticipated collection which includes the recently re-discovered Peter Ramsden Lance Todd Trophy and Rose Bowl from 1953, a cap and medal from Huddersfield’s 1890 Yorkshire Cup-winning team a 1917 regimental sprint cup

Thanks to a grant of almost £450,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) the First World War Centenary commemorations will see this untold story revealed in a number of fascinating ways over a three year period. London-based United Kingdom Punjab Heritage Association (UKPHA) and its volunteers will

The Grade II* listed glasshouse has been brought back to its former glory over the past 15 months. The renovation is the culmination of a 10 year fundraising campaign which began after the glasshouse was featured on the BBC programme Restoration in 2003.During the faithful historic restoration, an

The £353,200 grant will enable the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service (WAAS) to work with a variety of partners to develop exhibitions at venues across the county, which will tell the many stories of how the First World War shaped lives from its outbreak in 1914 through to the present

The Isle of Wight Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Wight AONB) has received an earmarked grant of just over £1.5million from the HLF through its Landscape Partnership (LP) programme for the Down to the Coast - East Wight Landscape Partnership project, it was announced today. The Down to the Coast

A £2.9m HLF Landscape Partnership grant has been earmarked for the National Park to restore lost habitats, develop Forest skills and inspire a new generation to champion and care for the New Forest. The seven-year New Forest Landscape Partnership will be led by the New Forest National Park Authority

Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) gave its initial support to a project which will transform the vacant and at risk Merkinch Welfare Hall in Inverness into a vibrant community space. The only listed temperance hall in the Highlands, this rare building will be restored to house an amateur boxing

The unique natural, cultural and built heritage of Lough Neagh and its environs is to be explored, protected and enjoyed as part of a major new five-year project which was awarded a £2.58million grant through HLF’s Landscape Partnership programme. Over the last decade the Landscape Partnership

The project will involve recording the stories and anecdotes of the women involved in the strike. These recordings will be accessible to the public through archives in local museums and libraries and used to form the basis of a theatre production which will be performed within the region. One For

National Historic Ships UK project will tell of the vital wartime role of 60 surviving vessels ranging from humble barges and fishing boats to powerful fighting ships ‘Blinded by War’ project will investigate how the need to treat blinded war veterans revolutionised medical research and ophthalmic

The National Maritime Museum is delighted to announce that the Eyal Ofer Family Foundation will donate £1.5m to help enable the museum to acquire two 18th-century oil paintings by the celebrated British artist George Stubbs (1724-1806). The donation will help save these paintings for the nation and

The transformation of the oldest part of the Grade II* Millbank building by leading architects Caruso St John marks a significant moment for Tate Britain. The unveiling follows the opening in May 2013 of ten new galleries and new BP displays, including the chronological presentation of Tate’s

Communities, natural habitats and historic sites around Morecambe Bay are set to benefit over the next five years, thanks to a £1.9m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The funding has been confirmed for Morecambe Bay Partnership’s Headlands to Headspace scheme, which will support

As part of a wider Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) project to reinterpret the castle, the flattened area will make room to facilitate access to the site, in addition to regenerating the public parkland, whilst work to convert and enhance the existing 19th-century lodge into the new visitor centre has

This initiative – Collecting Cultures – builds on the achievements of the original Collecting Cultures programme which ran six years ago following extensive consultation with a wide range of museums, libraries and archives. Grants of between £50,000 and £500,000 will be available for developing

The grant will enable pupils from the school to mark the centenary of the war by visiting national archives and museums to understand the long-lasting effect the conflict had on their area. Following the awarding of the grant as part of the HLF’s ongoing First World War: then and now grant programme

The £1.15million scheme aims to repair the unusual building in Cemetery Road, Lye – comprised of identical Anglican and non-conformist chapels – and bring them back into sustainable community and commercial use. The trust expects to carry out the necessary building repairs and conversion work in