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.
Peterborough Cathedral
News
Peterborough Cathedral secures Heritage Lottery investment
Peterborough Cathedral has been awarded a grant of £2.46m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its 'Peterborough 900: Letting it speak for itself' project.
Old Black Lion pub
News
Boost for St Peter and the Old Black Lion
Heritage Lottery Fund earmarks funding for St Peter and the Old Black Lion, Northampton’s oldest pub, to conserve the building and link it to Northampton’s Heritage Gateway.
Dean of Durham Cathedral
Blogs
Why open up Durham Cathedral's collections?
The Very Reverend Michael Sadgrove, Dean of Durham Cathedral talks about opening up of Durham Cathedral's collections.
Nicky Dunn and Carole Souter in the famous Drawing Office One
News
Titanic Drawing Offices and Northern Counties to be transformed with Lottery grants
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
Carole Souter and Nicky Dunn at the Harland and Wolff drawing offices
News
Lottery investment to unlock commercial potential of five unused historic buildings
Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is announcing more than £12million of UK-wide funding that will transform five important but neglected historic buildings back to commercial use, creating economic growth in five local areas and an estimated 230 FTE jobs by attracting private investment. This
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Spurn lighthouse to shine again
Spurn is a narrow, three-mile long arc of sand between the Humber Estuary and the North Sea with the Grade II listed lighthouse at its point. A £470,500 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) will enable the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to repair the building and open it for public access for the
Stockton’s Globe Theatre
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£4m boost for Stockton’s Globe Theatre
Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is announcing a grant of £3,992,000 to transform the neglected Grade II listed Art Deco Globe Theatre on Stockton High Street into a live music and comedy venue with capacity for around 2,500 people. It is one of the first buildings to be awarded funding
News
Exploring Tinsley Manor receives Heritage Lottery Fund support
Heeley Farm will work with Tinsley Junior School, Wessex Archaeology, community organisations and local volunteers to investigate the fascinating history of the Tinsley Manor House, possibly buried underneath the school field. The project will be based at Tinsley Junior School where the whole school
Current condition of Ynysangharad Park Lido
News
HLF gives Wales’ only listed lido a new lease of life
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council (RCTCBC) will use the funding, together with monies being sought from other funders to restore and reopen the Grade II listed Lido complex with modern facilities for the local community. Built in 1927 in an arts and crafts style, at a time when several
Artists impression of the planned redevelopment of Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh
News
Surgeons’ Hall Museum to be transformed with help of £2.7million Heritage Lottery Fund grant
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), the UK’s oldest surgical Royal College, today announced that it had been awarded the grant to extend and redevelop its Surgeons’ Hall Museum. Originally developed as a teaching museum for students of medicine, it has been open to the general public