The Derwent Valley, which stretches from Northumberland in the west to Consett in County Durham, and passes through Gateshead on its route to the Tyne pioneered steelmaking and rail transport.However, those important contributions, together with many local cultural traditions like rapper sword

The initiative Rusland Horizons: Working a Lakeland Landscape has been successful in its first-stage bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) Landscape Partnership Scheme.The project aims to provide rural training, employment and create exciting opportunities for residents and visitors in woodland

The 'Bird in a Cage' project will celebrate Lady Rhondda’s contribution to the suffragette movement and the Women’s Social and Political Union in Newport. The nine month project by Winding Snake Productions will include community lectures and school workshops for Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils in Newport

The HLF cash will fund just over £1.4m of the £1.7m project to fully restore the Grade II* listed building in Thornhaugh, Peterborough. It will also assist in funding the project for the first three years, during which time two new jobs and a number of volunteering opportunities will be created. The

This project is a unique partnership between Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Life, the University of Glasgow and the National Library of Scotland which will transform this historic building into an exciting new centre of cultural excellence providing collections’storage, teaching and research

Working with local volunteers, the project focuses on the stories of the people who worked and convalesced at Summerdown Camp and its impact on local life during the period. The project will offer a vital opportunity to reflect and commemorate the lives of the soldiers briefly resident in Eastbourne

The project, Charting Chipeling, The Archaeology of the Kiplin Estate, is programmed to commence immediately, with the major part of the work being completed by autumn 2014. An exhibition, based on the work and results of the survey, is planned for the 2015 season. The Kiplin Estate in the late 19th

The project aims to give the historic building a more secure future in terms of its financial stability, getting more people involved in learning at the 18th century town house, and making it easier for more people to visit. Development funding of £75,500 has been awarded to help City of York

This investment, which includes £374,600 in development funding so that planning for the schemes can get underway, will ensure a boost for rural areas and provide long-term social, economic and environmental benefits. The landscapes, which cover some 561 km² (more than 78,000 football pitches)

Beyond Graffiti – waymarking through time is The Milestone Society’s West Yorkshire project which will see students make history by creating new waymarkers to be installed in the Dewsbury Country Park.Milestones and waymakers are classed as ‘listed buildings’ but they are at risk from neglect

The project aims to engage local people with the wildlife on their doorstep and, with their help, to improve the town’s green spaces and waterways protecting rare species like water vole and four species of bat including brown long-eared and lesser horseshoe bats. Through the project the trust will

The project has been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant of £393,100, it was announced today. Led by Wirral Council the project will: conserve the north and west range Priory buildings and complete other restoration works in order to remove the Priory from the Heritage At Risk register

A consortium of the Diocese of London, St Mary Magdalene’s Paddington PCC and Paddington Development Trust, with the support of Westminster City Council (WCC), has been awarded a first-round pass and development funding of £263,000 from the HLF for the restoration of St Mary Magdalene’s Church as a

The project aims to preserve and restore much of the main abbey buildings.The project involves refurbishing parts of the main abbey building, including rebuilding the conservatory and opening the south wing for events and public access, restoring the 18th-century stable block into a new visitor and

The funding awarded to Gwynedd Council in partnership with Bangor University will assist the creation of a new ‘culture quarter’ in Bangor, with the city’s Bishop’s Palace at its heart.The grant awarded by the HLF will go towards the relocation and the redevelopment of the Gwynedd Museum and Art

Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced grants totalling £21m to conserve nine distinctive landscapes. This investment will ensure a boost for rural areas and provide long-term social, economic and environmental benefits. The landscapes are: Coigach and Assynt, a beautiful and remote

The Lady Lever Art Galley has received initial support from HLF for a major redevelopment of the gallery. National Museums Liverpool is planning £2.8m improvements to the venue that will see 500 square metres of gallery space transformed and returned to its original architectural design. This

Two projects from Northern Ireland are among the first in the UK to benefit from the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) pioneering new funding programme, Heritage Enterprise. A huge £5.7million investment has been earmarked by HLF through the programme for the conservation and regeneration of the former