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Recovery and resilience: advice from a heritage project improving skills and wellbeing

Two Skylark IX volunteers work on building a wooden rowing boat

Two Skylark IX volunteers honing their boatbuilding skills

Stories

17/05/2023

… Recovery and resilience: advice from a heritage project improving skills and wellbeing Two Skylark IX volunteers honing their … IX’s story and experiences of lockdown, and they're now working on a Skylark tapestry. Suzanne, the textile …

Focus on… natural heritage in the West Midlands

Dr Tom Tew

Blogs

12/01/2015

… West Midlands Dr Tom Tew 12/01/2015 Dr Tom Tew, Trustee and Committee Member Lottery funding can help to save our natural and cultural heritage, and 2014 saw some great projects in … footpath to local fields and the river beyond. There is a now lot of evidence that ‘reconnecting with nature’ does us …

Follow in the footsteps of ‘Gentleman Jack’ in Edinburgh

©Shibden Hall

News

22/02/2021

… A new walking tour following in the footsteps of diarist and world traveller Anne Lister will help people explore the LGBT+ history and culture of Edinburgh. Anne Lister, often described as the … in minute detail, her experiences and observations will now be shared more widely with the LGBT+ community as they …

Five Northern Ireland heritage venues to visit this summer

Whitehead Railway Station

News

24/05/2021

… Ireland, lockdown restrictions are beginning to ease and heritage is starting to re-open. As people plan days out and summer holidays, we’ve put together a list of five … from Ulster to the American Frontier. Book your ticket now to visit one of the National Museums Northern Ireland. …

How the Heritage Trust Network is bringing the sector together to learn and develop

A group of 13 people standing outside a building listening to a tour guide as part of a community walking tour

A walking tour delivered as part of the Heritage Trust Network's National Lottery funded project.

Stories

06/06/2023

… Trust Network is bringing the sector together to learn and develop A walking tour delivered as part of the Heritage … experiences, hearing from experts and from each other. “Now – thanks to National Lottery funding – for the first … of your organisation is straightforward and enjoyable. Then advertise trustee positions like jobs, and really sell …

Welsh island puffins protected thanks to Heritage Emergency Fund grant

News

04/06/2020

… for the vast colonies of rare seabirds that nest on Skomer and Skokholm. Normally the puffins that nest on Skomer and Skokholm Islands, off the coast of Pembrokeshire in … made through our Heritage Emergency Fund , the wardens can now continue protecting the islands' seabirds and other …

Diversifying workforces benefits staff, employers and heritage audiences

Two women looking into a glass museum display case.

An exhibition on the School for the Blind at the Museum of Liverpool.

Blogs

05/09/2022

… Diversifying workforces benefits staff, employers and heritage audiences Future Heritage An exhibition on the … small changes can have big impacts on heritage workforces and build a more sustainable and equitable sector. Esther Fox … more creative, innovative ideas. Many of the museums have now started supplying interview questions in advance as part …

Refurbished Middleton Park given official opening

News

24/09/2013

… Council, Wades Charity, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Big Lottery Fund (BLF), a new multi-purpose visitor … in the visitor centre is a café which overlooks the lake, and public toilets. Adjacent to the attraction sits a new … which is so important to the wellbeing of the community, now and for generations to come.” Notes to editors Big …

Derelict Stirchley Baths to become hub for the community

News

27/09/2013

… 27/09/2013 The money will refurbish the historic building and rejuvenate the area creating cultural, sporting and recreational opportunities for local people. The Urban … Walker, Chair of Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum, said: "It now seems very real that the idea of a building in the heart …

Treftadaeth Conference 2012

News

09/07/2012

… public as well as those within the heritage sector and aims to provide delegates with an opportunity to share … to work with experts in the field of heritage protection and to pose questions to Huw Lewis AM Minister for Housing, … robust sector to respond in new ways to the conditions it now faces. The strategic framework for 2013-2018 sets out …

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