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Areas, buildings and monuments

Areas, buildings and monuments

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Lincoln Castle. Credit: Colin McLean Photography
Safeguarding our historic buildings, monuments and archaeology for future generations.

Thanks to National Lottery players, since 1994 we have awarded £3.3billion to more than 10,300 area, historic building and monument projects across the UK. See stories from projects we've funded below.

We provide grants for heritage projects from £10,000–£10million to ensure that heritage is valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.

These projects can help to sustain jobs, support economic growth and protect heritage at risk. They can also bolster local pride, nurture traditional craft skills and help communities enjoy and make use of the places they care about.

What do we support?

Projects we fund include:

  • investment in places of worship
  • conservation and repairs to historic buildings and places
  • finding appropriate new uses for historic buildings
  • community archaeology projects

Places of worship

Places of worship are among the UK’s oldest and most cherished historic buildings. We want to help congregations become truly resilient and their buildings genuinely sustainable.

Places of worship we fund

Project ideas

Our funding could help people:

  • repair and transform a historic building at the heart of their community
  • help volunteers learn building conservation skills
  • rescue a building on a Buildings at Risk register
  • undertake a community archaeology project
  • regenerate a historic town centre or high street
  • look after and learn about a local war memorial

How to get funding

Our National Lottery Heritage Grants programme is open for applications.

Find out more and apply
A young child in a school uniform looking up and smiling inside a synagogue
The Cheetham school workshop in a synagogue. Credit: Chris Payne

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Places of worship

From churches and chapels to mandirs and mosques, places of worship are among the UK’s oldest and most cherished historic buildings.
The interior of Aberdeen Music Hall
The revamped interior of Aberdeen Music Hall

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Curtain rises on Aberdeen's transformed Music Hall

Thanks to funding raised by players of the National Lottery, the 200-year-old venue now has modern facilities and new spaces including a creative learning studio, café and bar, relocated box office and a new performance space. After significant excavations, three new lifts have been installed to
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Argraff artist o'r Ddistyllfa Penderyn arfaethedig yn safle gweithfeydd copr hanesyddol Hafod Morfa Abertawe.

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Breathing new life into Swansea’s old copperworks

Swansea's former Hafod Morfa Copperworks site will be transformed thanks to £3.5million from the National Lottery.
Community and volunteers at photography exhition
Community and volunteers at photography exhibition. Photo: Charmian S Berry

Projects

The preservation of the Melton Old Church collection of WW1 grave markers

This project focused on conserving Melton Old Church’s nationally important collection of 10 First World War grave markers while helping people connect with the heritage of the village during the conflict.

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A group of people with gloves and buckets standing in front of a church wall Andrew Mottram Worcester Diocese

Projects

Teaching traditional building repair skills to church volunteers

Volunteers developed skills to help them maintain their historic places of worship into the future without relying on professional contractors.

If you query is regarding our application portal, please contact our support team.