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#NationalLottery
& Government support.
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#HeritageFund
We’re celebrating 30 years of the National Lottery at
@WhitbyAbbey
🎉
@davidpopaart
installation, ‘The Heritage Tree’, showcases seven Game Changers making a significant impact on the UK heritage sector, thanks to National Lottery Funding.
#NationalLottery30
#COVID19
update: We are launching the Heritage Emergency Fund - a £50 million fund to support the heritage sector as an immediate response to the coronavirus outbreak:
The Heritage Lottery Fund has a new name, a new look and a new five year funding plan! We are now the
#NationalLotteryHeritageFund
. Find out more information on our new website:
We're delighted to endorse this new guidance on Trans Inclusive Culture. As the largest funder for the UK's heritage, we know that across the cultural sector, organisations and industries want to achieve inclusion, wider access and put equity at the core of a sustainable sector.
News | Leicester experts are behind ground-breaking new guidance which will support museums, galleries, archives and heritage organisations to be more ambitious and confident in advancing trans inclusion. 🏳️⚧️
👉
#CitizensOfChange
|
@LeicsMusStud
Today is
#HeritageTreasures
day 2021. Join us in celebrating the heritage people, places, stories and innovative online programmes that have kept us uplifted throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Share your chosen heritage treasure using the hashtag and tag us in.
Guy Fawkes was carrying this lantern on his arrest in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament. He was arrested beneath the House of Lords in 1605 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot. The lantern is now housed at
#NationalLottery
supported
@AshmoleanMuseum
.
#GuyFawkesNight
Today we launch
#LandscapeConnections
- £150million funding to enhance & protect the UK’s world-class landscapes over the next 10 years.
We'll support long-term projects to boost nature recovery & connect more people to our landscapes. Read the latest 👉
New today! We're excited to launch ‘Digital Skills for Heritage’ which aims to help organisations thrive in a digital era. We will promote and support digital skills for everyone. Find out more 👉
#NationalLotteryGrantsForHeritage
open today! Applications have reopened for our project grants from £3,000 to £5million, after nearly a year of focusing on emergency support for heritage in response to the
#COVID19
crisis.
Read more:
#Funding
We have a new Chair! We’re delighted to welcome Simon Thurley on 1st April. He said "It's a great privilege to be appointed as Chair at a critical time for the
#heritage
sector.
@HeritageFundUK
will play a vital role in helping organisations rebuild & thrive following COVID-19."
We want heritage to be valued, cared for & sustained for everyone’s future. Today, we’re introducing our new strategy
#Heritage2033
, which sets out our vision for the next 10 years.
Learn about the investment principles that will underpin our work: (1/5)
NEW CULTURE RECOVERY FUND FOR HERITAGE: Working in partnership with
@HistoricEngland
we are distributing £92million from
@DCMS
. The funds are available to
#heritage
orgs across England & the deadline is midday Monday 17 August.
Applications open 30 July:
National Lottery-funded heritage attractions are saying 'thank you' by offering free entry, treats & discounts to anyone arriving with a
#NationalLottery
ticket or scratchcard from 11-17 December!
#ThanksToYou
Happy
#HeritageTreasures
day!
Since 1994, we have distributed more than £8.3bn to more than 49,000 inspiring heritage projects across the UK, thanks to the
#NationalLottery
. We believe heritage has a positive impact on people, communities and places.
#LoveHeritage
Today is
#WorldHeritageDay
. Over the last 25 years we have supported more than 44,000 projects across the UK exploring all kinds of diverse
#heritage
. We can’t go & visit them at the moment, but instead join us on a virtual heritage tour of 15 inspiring places 👇
#HeritageFromHome
Everyone at
@HeritageFundUK
appreciates that
#Covid19
is very challenging for the heritage sector & we are committed to being as flexible as possible to support all the organisations we fund through this period.
Find out how we can help you here:
"Archives don’t need to be old or very 'important'; their value lies in their use to future researchers. Archives are tools of understanding and giving us a fantastic insight into the past."
#ExploreArchives
@explorearchives
Our Board met today to review the immediate help we can provide to support people and organisations across UK
#heritage
respond to the
#COVID19
crisis.
We will be announcing our rescue and recovery support within the next few days.
NEWS: Funding applications are now open! 📢
Our new
#Heritage2033
National Lottery Heritage Grant programme opens today for grants from £10,000 up to £10million.
Find out more 👉
Let’s kick off 2020 with some good news for
#NaturalHeritage
! Today we announce £7.4million to help support nature and wildlife across the UK - including some species on the verge of extinction 🦪🦋🦔🐬🌺
👉
Exciting news for
#HeritageTreasures
Day!
Thrilled to announce £4.9m funding to Barts Heritage to conserve & repair the Grade I listed St Bartholomew Hospital, including the stunning Hogarth Stair, a stunning heritage treasure. Explore the story 👉 (1/2)
Through the
#CultureRecoveryFund
, we awarded 433 grants worth £67 million. From helping venues to operate safely to supporting staff working in the sector, we’re dedicated to helping the
#heritage
sector recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
#HereForCulture
👉
Today we launch the
#HeritageHorizonAwards
! 🙌 One hundred million pounds of
#NationalLottery
funding will be given to large-scale, transformational heritage projects over the next three years. Want to apply? Find out more 👉
Funding news! £13.8 million from
#NationalLottery
to revive 6 public parks -
🌳Sydney Gardens, Bath
🌳South Cliff Gardens, Scarborough
🌳Castle Park, Bishop's Stortford
🌳Ellington Park, Ramsgate
🌳Fairhaven Lake and Gardens, Fylde
🌳Stevens Park, Dudley
We're thrilled to support
@NatureBftB
#naturebftb
! The project will save 20 species from extinction, put 92 threatened species on the road to recovery & benefit another 112 in the next 3 years! Take a look at the amazing new website -
#NationalLottery
£13.5million to kickstart 22 heritage projects!
The
#heritage
sector has had a rough past year, but thanks to the
@DCMS
Capital Kickstart Fund orgs across England can continue capital projects. Read more 👉
#HereForCulture
Books are full of secrets. Although on the outside this item may look like a big book, inside it is actually a Jacobean travelling library! For more stories on strange and wonderful things found inside books 📖👉
#ReadABookDay
You told us which heritage is important to you & we listened. Nature & natural heritage will be one of our top priorities over the next five years as we invest more than £1bn of National Lottery cash across the UK. More info:
#NationalLotteryHeritageFund
It’s time to celebrate the UK’s rich and diverse heritage... it’s
#HeritageTreasures
Day! 💫
#DidYouKnow
that since 1994, we’ve awarded £8.8billion of
#NationalLottery
and other funding to more than 51,000 projects across the UK.
Share the heritage that inspires you today.
The major restoration of Rochdale Town Hall is complete! With £8.9m
#HeritageFund
support, made possible by
#NationalLottery
players, the four-year project has returned the iconic Grade I Listed building to its former glory 🥳 (1/4🧵)
The
#Heritage
Emergency Fund is now open for applications any time before 30 June 2020. The UK-wide fund - money raised from
#NationalLottery
- addresses immediate pressures over the next 4 months for those organisations most in need.
More information:
The Heritage Emergency Fund is open for applications from 2pm on Wednesday 15 April. Please see the guidance and think about what support you need to get your organisation through the next few months:
#heritage
#COVID19
We're thrilled to announce that a new museum for
#Blackpool
has been awarded a £4million
#NationalLotteryHeritageFund
grant – part of a £10million package of grants giving heritage-led regeneration and tourism a massive funding boost across the North!
@HeritageFundNOR
NEWS: We’ve awarded a
#NationalLottery
grant of £1.6m to uncover untold stories of Hadrian’s Wall fort!
This project will support the research excavation and explore the impact of
#ClimateChange
on this important cultural heritage site. Explore 👉
Today we’re announcing £12.2million to help save the UK's historic buildings! From the only thatched ice house of its kind to the oldest picture house in Northern Ireland, 12 heritage buildings have been awarded a share.
Read more 👉
(1/7)
NEWS: Our Heritage Emergency Fund grants - made possible thanks to
#NationalLottery
players - can now be used to help
#heritage
organisations reopen after the
#COVID19
crisis, & we have extended the application deadline to Friday 31 July.
Find out more:
Black, Asian and ethnic minority groups are widely underrepresented in the
#heritage
sector. Our new
#graduate
programme aims to change this by offering paid opportunities that will increase
#diversity
in the sector.
Apply now:
“I am delighted to be able to say that later this month we will begin a phased reopening of project funding through our
#NationalLottery
Grants for Heritage.”
@RosKerslake
our CEO
NEWS:
#Heritage
project funding to reopen from 25 November 2020. More info:
The heritage sector has a vital role to play in tackling climate change, so we're challenging all kinds of heritage projects to have a positive impact on our environment!
Take part in our
#ClimateActionChallenge
by sharing with us how you are being environmentally sustainable.
Exciting news! 🎉
The Portrait of Mai (Omai) has been saved for the UK following an historic campaign with £10m of support from our friends at the
#NationalHeritageMemorialFund
The work will be owned jointly by
@NPGLondon
and
@GettyMuseum
Read more 👉
The 11th January is
#HeritageTreasures
day! On Thursday 11th please share your heritage treasures with us on social media & let us know why you
#LoveHeritage
.
Will you choose a medieval castle, a breathtaking landscape, a 1930s cinema, a painting, or even a memory?
Exciting news! Thornborough Henges, the “Stonehenge of the north”, has been reunited and will be fully publicly accessible for the first time under
@EnglishHeritage
ownership, thanks to funding from our friends at the
#NationalHeritageMemorialFund
.
More 👉
To celebrate the UK’s incredible and diverse heritage, we’ve named 11 January annual
#HeritageTreasures
day! To get involved share your
#HeritageTreasures
with us using the hashtag and let us know why you’ve chosen it:
“We earn over half of our income from tourism – visitor centres, cafes, shops, holiday accommodation & day visits to the island. That income has been turned off overnight.” Sarah
@WTSWW
#Welsh
island
#puffins
protected thanks to
#Heritage
Emergency Fund:
Heritage funding news! We’re delighted to announce £500,000 of
#NationalLottery
funding to reveal the hidden history and voices of women’s football (1/3)
More information 👉
A huge welcome to Helen Featherstone
@hjfeathers
as our new Director for North England. Helen begins in January and brings a wealth of experience as she joins us from her latest role as Deputy Director
@YSPsculpture
.
Read more
@ArtsPro
👉
#HeritageFund
Happy
#NationalWildlifeDay
! Did you know that over the years HLF has contributed to the preservation of endangered species such as
#Nightjars
? More info 👉
#Thread
👇 National Lottery Grants for Heritage info:
From 25 November 2020 we will resume accepting applications for project grants from £3,000-£10,000 and £10,000-£100,000. We will be looking for projects with emphasis on organisational
#resilience
and
#inclusion
. (1/5)
NEWS: Thrilled to award £4.95million to
@Bradford2025
to develop a programme of activities to bring the diverse
#heritage
of the city to the fore during
#CityofCulture2025
celebrations. 🥳
The Heritage Emergency Fund opens for applications this afternoon and you can apply any time before 30 June 2020. Please read the guidance and application process information:
#NationalLotteryHeritageFund
In new
#NationalLottery
research 72% of adults say outdoor spaces have had a positive effect on their mental wellbeing this year, with 43% saying that
#heritage
sites make them feel more relaxed and less anxious in difficult times 👉
#ThanksToYou
Heritage with inclusion at its heart can bring people together, challenge intolerance and help create a better society. That’s why we’ve made inclusion a mandatory requirement of everything we fund. We support inclusion and we reject racism and prejudice.
#BlackOutTuesday
Happy
#InternationalDayOfCharity
! Did you know that we've awarded £7.9billion to over 43,000 projects since 1994? 👏👏
Find out more about some of the amazing heritage projects we've supported:
#NationalLottery
#DidYouKnow
this is the first time in 36 years that the West Front of
@LincsCathedral
has been scaffolding free! Take a look at that before and after.
📸 Before photo taken in 2018.
#NewToNature
news! 🚨
60 young people aged 18-25 are being offered the opportunity to kickstart a
#GreenCareer
, with paid environmental work placements at organisations across the UK.
Find out more about these placements here 👉 (1/2)
#Nature