Areas, buildings and monuments
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.
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.
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HLF awards £9,200 to Friends of St Augustine’s Penarth to mark First World War Centenary
Awarded through HLF’s First World War: then and now programme, the project will focus on the restoration and regilding of the Roll of Honour on the west wall of the church, together with recording and ordering the details of the lives and families of as many of the men on the roll as possible.To
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Wicksteed Park Lake project update
An amazing 50,000 cubic meters of lake silt has been moved. Roughly half has been taken out to dry on two sites within the park, the remainder has been fashioned to create a number of large reed beds around the margins of the lake as well as the islands. These new reed beds will help restore the
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Historic Wolverhampton street secures Lottery support
The project aims to provide grants to assist owners with essential repairs and improvements to their properties in Queen Street, possibly one of the most historic streets in the Wolverhampton City Centre Conservation Area. The award will help to support the city’s Interchange scheme, improving an
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Investing £5million in UK’s natural heritage
These projects will bring together a variety of partners to protect and nurture some of our most precious and vulnerable habitats and species and are part of a wider package of £16m of HLF support, also announced today. Carole Souter, Chief Executive of HLF, said: “The Heritage Lottery Fund is one
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£26.5million to restore UK’s cemeteries and parks
The Grade I registered Brompton Cemetery in West London, one of London’s Magnificent Seven, is to be restored following an award of more than £3.7million of Lottery funding. It is one of the first cemeteries to receive funding through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund’s Parks for
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Morley and the Home Front
Awarded through HLF’s First World War: then and now programme, the project will focus on the home front and how the onset of the Great War had significant impact on local life. Rachael Kennedy, Town Events Manager is leading on this project and explained: “This series of events will enable the local
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Good news for Watts Gallery's campaign to save Limnerslease
Since 1938, Limnerslease – the only remaining artist’s house and studio designed by Ernest George, celebrated Arts and Crafts architect and tutor to Lutyens - has been in private ownership. The property was divided and modernisation resulted in many of the original features being lost.For the first
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Hendrix and Handel: Baroque and roll
Hendrix lived in the top floor flat of 23 Brook Street from 1968 to 1969, and described it as “the only home I ever had”. Ironically, the adjoining No. 25, was occupied by the great baroque composer George Frideric Handel two centuries before. This historic connection between rock and the baroque
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Lottery boost to conserve Rathlin Island’s heritage
In County Antrim, a project to share the traditional skill of dry stone walling is one of those set to benefit. Plans to restore 2.8km of dry stone walls in the Church Bay area of Rathlin Island received a £52,900 grant. Volunteers will be trained to restore the iconic dry stone walls which are in a
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Support for Linacre Methodist Mission and Neighbourhood Centre
The project aims to restore the Albert Walker Hall within the church and Neighbourhood Centre building, to complete the refurbishment of the Neighbourhood Centre community areas. Development funding of £78,400 has also been awarded to help Linacre Mission progress their plans to apply for a full
The Cloisters at Durham Cathedral
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Major investment in two of England’s most spectacular cathedrals
£3.9m for Durham CathedralHLF’s investment will enable the display of original 13th-century copies of the Magna Carta alongside other artefacts in celebration of the 800th anniversary of the charter in 2015. The Monks’ Dormitory and Great Kitchen, some of the most intact medieval monastic rooms in
The Compton Verney Landscape Restoration Project – an aerial view
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Compton Verney secures Heritage Lottery Fund support
The project aims to preserve, restore and celebrate an outstanding ‘Capability’ Brown park, which includes a rare, Brown-designed and Grade I listed chapel.Development funding of £179,656 has also been awarded to help Compton Verney to progress its plans to apply for a full grant at a later date