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NCT’s ‘Discover Churches’: A Toolkit for Welcoming Visitors

The National Churches Trust (NCT) has a guide ‘Explore churches – Discover Churches: A Toolkit for Welcoming Visitors and a resource’ – designed to help volunteers extend a warm and meaningful welcome to visitors exploring church heritage, art, and community.

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The National Lottery Heritage Fund awards £10m to help save Birnbeck Pier as it celebrates 160th anniversary

image for illustration: Birnbeck Pier by Oliver Mills, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Commons Wikimedia Celebrations are underway as The National Lottery Heritage Fund has announced £10m of funding to bring the Grade II* listed Birnbeck Pier back to life

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (station) doorstep’: Campaigners’ dismay after Restoring your Railway Fund schemes axed by Chancellor

image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Transport campaigners have expressed their dismay after Chancellor Rachel Reeves told MPs that the £500 million Restoring Your Railway fund had been cancelled, as part of a wide range of national economies to … Continue reading

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LGA survey says ‘1 in 4 councils likely to need emergency government support’

image for illustration One in four councils in England say they are likely to have to apply for emergency government bailout agreements to stave off bankruptcy in the next two financial years (2025/26 and 2026/27), a stark new survey by … Continue reading

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Future of theatres unclear amid prolonged RAAC closures

image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Four theatres that closed in 2023 because of RAAC concerns still have no reopening date announced, while four other venues are not expected to open until at least 2025.

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Before the Budget: District Councils’ Network warned that ‘Robust local government is critical to the Government’s ambitions’

image for illustration The District Councils’ Network (DCN) has warned that planning departments are facing the worst workforce shortages, with eight out of 10 experiencing recruitment and retention issues.

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Lottery: £30M awarded to 15 heritage projects ahead of our 30th birthday

In the latest round of funding decisions from the Heritage Fund, it has given grants to transform a historic port, boost the habitat of freshwater pearl mussels, save a pub, revitalise a park and more, to celebrate a new batch … Continue reading

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep’: Council to sell off Grade-II listed power station to plug £27million budget gap

image for illustration A Grade-II listed power station and several car parks have been included among a list of assets a council intends to sell off to plug a £27million budget gap.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Portsmouth) doorstep’ 2: Cathedral wins £118K Lottery funds for Visitor Experience space

Portsmouth Cathedral has announced it has been awarded nearly £118,000 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to transform the visitor experience within the Cathedral.

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AHF: Grant funding for community-led heritage regeneration projects in Northern Ireland

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) grant programme for community-led heritage regeneration projects in Northern Ireland.

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The National Lottery Heritage Fund awards nearly £5M for conservation ‘expansion’ in Church of England parishes

image for illustration: Peter Badcock The Church of England has been awarded nearly £5 million to fund a ‘much needed’ expansion in work to conserve cultural and historical heritage in parish churches in a grant from The National Lottery Heritage … Continue reading

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AHF reports on Scotland Programmes: ‘Small amounts of money… carefully targeted… grows all this really big scale impact’

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is delighted to share an evaluation report summarising the research findings of RF Associates, that demonstrate the impact of AHF grant and loan programmes in Scotland during the five-year period from April 2019 to March … Continue reading

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HTN: Grant from National Lottery Heritage Fund to transform support for community heritage

image for illustration Heritage Trust Network (HTN) has been awarded a £1,364,588 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for a major development and resilience project to transform the Network’s ability to empower people to rescue and reuse historic buildings … Continue reading

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AHF Publishes ‘2023/24 Impact Report’

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has published its fourth annual Impact Report.

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£1Mn donation by playwright Ken Ludwig supports conservation efforts at historic home of Shakespeare’s daughter

image for illustration: Hall’s Croft by Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The charity that cares for the world’s greatest Shakespeare heritage sites in Stratford-upon-Avon has announced it has received a substantial donation by … Continue reading

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HES Grants Funding Report 2023-24 now out

Historic Environment Scotland’s (HES) ‘Grants Funding Report 2023-24’ provides detailed information on how grant funding has supported communities and historic places all over Scotland.

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RICS pledges initial £90,000 to student bursary programme

image for illustration The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is pledging £90,000 to the Chartered Surveyors Student Bursary Programme.

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Celebrating the AHF’s Transforming Places through Heritage Programme… ‘bringing its current phase to a close’

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has distributed the final grants from its landmark Transforming Places through Heritage programme, officially bringing its current phase to a close.

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HES ‘Grants Programme Baseline Report 2023-24’ published: How are we spending our money?

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has published its Grants Programme Baseline Report for 2023-24 indicating how grant aid money is being spent.

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LGA infographics reveal fragmented culture funding needs reform: Drops £2.3Bn since 2010

image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Local Government Association’s (LGA) new infographics reveal that, while local government is the largest single biggest funder of culture, this investment remains under threat due to the multitude of funding steams as well … Continue reading

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HE’s ‘Everyday Heritage Grants’: Celebrating working class histories, open to 7/10

image for illustration Historic England (HE) has launched a new round of our grant opportunity ‘Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories’, to close Monday 7 October 2024.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the ‘Lottery’ doorstep’: Cherished churches and heritage receive £7.4M, thanks to Lottery players

From restoring buildings with centuries of choral heritage to championing environmental sustainability, The Heritage Fund is celebrating heritage gems that will thrive again thanks to National Lottery players.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: Five urban centres in Ireland awarded €32Mn under Town Centre First Heritage Revival Scheme

Five urban centres are set to benefit from funding of up to €7 million each under THRIVE, the Town Centre First Heritage Revival Scheme, awarded under Ireland’s two European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Regional Programmes.

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