Heritage Lottery Fund

Theatre wins Heritage Lottery Fund support

Barbican Theatre is delighted to announce that they have secured £19,720 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to work in partnership with Plymouth City Council’s Arts and Heritage service on an exciting project, giving audiences a completely new perspective on the Elizabethan House on the Barbican.

A Blast from the Past; and Back Again is a project that will enable emerging artists...

Major new city attraction will make history

Plymouth is a step closer to creating a major new visitor attraction that will proudly tell the stories of some of the city’s legends and heroes who shaped the modern world.

Early plans for the much-anticipated Plymouth History Centre have been sent to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) as the first step in a bidding process that could achieve £12.5 million investment for the city....

Heritage Enterprise to stimulate local economies by unlocking unused historic buildings

Today, as the first comprehensive analysis of how the UK’s historic buildings are used by businesses is published, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has launched Heritage Enterprise, a pioneering new funding programme designed to stimulate local economic growth by unlocking the commercial potential of unused historic buildings and sites.

With a commitment of at least £25 million per...

Tavistock wins lottery funding to rejuvenate historic centre

Tavistock has won initial support for a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant of £1million to help rejuvenate the town’s historic centre and boost the local economy.

A partnership bid by local councils, businesses and community groups to the HLF for its Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) programme has been successful in the face of tough competition from across the country.

The...

Youth Parliament celebrates local Heritage Heroes

Members of the UK Youth Parliament (MYPs) in the South West are celebrating an award of £20,600 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The grant will be used to create an archive of films and recordings about people in the history of the South West who have campaigned for change in their communities and politics.

Young people aged 11 to 18 from Plymouth will be looking at Somerset...