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Heritage Lottery Fund supports Manchester Jewish Museum development

Manchester Jewish Museum c1903
Manchester Jewish Museum c1903

News

… museum extension that will house new galleries, learning and event spaces. The museum’s historic synagogue building … in 1874 by wealthy Jewish textile merchants, the museum now plans to fully restore the building’s architectural … the development of the project. Detailed proposals are then considered by HLF at second-round and as long as plans …

Kick the Dust programme evaluation: empowering young people in heritage

Publications

… aged 11-25 has concluded after six years of achievements and learning. Responding to research that showed young people were under-represented as audiences, participants and volunteers in heritage, we funded 12 large-scale projects … organisations. And at some organisations young people are now permanently involved in decision-making.  Heritage …

The search is on to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects

News

… of Lottery funding has gone to projects across Scotland. Now The National Lottery is encouraging these projects, and the thousands like them across the UK that have received … your community with the help of Lottery funding, then now is your chance to nominate it.” The entrants that …

Funding flow secures future of seventeenth-century Linnels Mill

Linnels Mill on the banks of Devils Water
Linnels Mill on the banks of Devils Water

News

… the picturesque landscape since the 17th century. An oat and barley mill until 1890, the building was converted to … house – one of the first to be electrically lit. Since then Linnels Mill has been left remarkably undisturbed. Time … from the introduction of a turbine and dynamo - themselves now of considerable technological interest, the whole …

Great Place Scheme evaluation (England)

Publications

… approaches to putting culture at the heart of communities and local policy-making. About the Great Place Scheme The … initiative between The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England. The scheme has been running since … the Great Place scheme aims. The majority of these have now requested project extensions in order to allow for better …

National Lottery grant to restore Georgian Town Hall

Aerial view of Brackley Town Hall
Aerial view of Brackley Town Hall Fly High Media

News

… has been awarded by HLF to Brackley Town Council to repair and upgrade the ‘vulnerable’ building as a rejuvenated … and 1707 by the 4th Earl of Bridgewater Scroop Egerton, then Lord of the Manor of Brackley. It was constructed to … used as a place to trade wool and as a manorial court. Now highlighted as vulnerable due to its current poor …

Placing heritage at the heart of communities

Publications

… of our two £22m Great Place Schemes to learn how culture and heritage can drive positive change locally. Between August 2016 and March 2018, our Great Place Scheme funded 16 projects in … and economic objectives. Most of these projects have now completed. We commissioned BOP Consulting to evaluate the …

Changing lives: finding kindness on board the Daniel Adamson

Dave Lowles on board the Daniel Adamson

Stories

… many Liverpool men of his generation, he had been to sea, and the waterfront felt like a second home to him. "I’ve made so many new friends. My week ahead is now planned. The phone is always ringing and we meet up … Dave. “They said yes, and I took off my coat there and then and got to work.” Making friends It’s no exaggeration to …

Young people in Bolton trace their roots back to Gallipoli

Bolton residents learning about the role local soldiers played in the Battle of Gallipoli
Bolton residents learning about the role local soldiers played in the Battle of Gallipoli

News

… campaign, which cost the lives of thousands of British and Australian soldiers. Helping to mark the Centenary of the … will be to identify those who were killed at Gallipoli, then the young people will research their lives before they … for the first time Through its First World War: then and now programme, HLF is making at least £1million available per …

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