Heritage Lottery Funding news

A £200,000 (US$252,605, €221,270) cash injection from the UK Government to Black Cultural Archives (BCA) in Brixton, London, is intended to buy time for the ... More

The RIBA Stirling Prize-winning Hastings Pier, designed by architecture studio dRMM, has been put up for sale. Property agent GVA has been instructed to offer ... More

Foster + Partners’ plans to reinvigorate the famous Snowdon Aviary at ZSL London Zoo have received planning approval from Westminster Council. The Grade II listed ... More

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded the National Paralympic Heritage Trust £1m (US$1.3m, €1.1m) to establish a heritage centre in the UK chronicling the ... More

The long-touted Jurassica project, a multi-million pound dinosaur attraction inside a former quarry in Dorset, UK, will take its first steps as a visitor attraction ... More

Historic buildings in Northern Ireland will be restored and Kent's natural heritage will be secured after two projects won grants of more than £5m (US$6.25m, ... More

A big tent festooned with neckerchiefs will be the centrepiece of a new museum dedicated to the international Scouting movement. Architecture studio Tate Harmer have ... More

Global architecture firm Foster + Partners have been appointed to redevelop London Zoo’s famous Snowdon Aviary. The Grade II* listed structure, designed by Cedric Price ... More

London Zoo’s aviary is among the most recent additions to Historic England’s Risk Register, with wider concerns over costs for at risk heritage sites thanks ... More

Newmarket’s £14m (US$17.1m, €15.7m) National Horse Racing Museum has opened to the public more than 25 years on from its original inception. Celebrating more than ... More

25 years on from its inception, work is nearing completion on Newmarket’s £14m (US$20.4m, €18.2m) National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art, which sees ... More

The £80m (US$121m, €104.4m) Jurassica dinosaur attraction proposed inside a limestone quarry in Dorset, UK, could generate £20m (US$30.3m, €26.1m) for the local economy every ... More

Plymouth’s naval heritage centre could be about to move to the centre of the town, with talks about a move from the Devonport area into ... More

Plans are afoot to take a disused underground mail line in London and transform it into a tourist attraction. The London Post Office Railway – ... More

The Royal Academy of Arts has moved a step closer to beginning its £36m (US$57.5m, €42.9m) Burlington Gardens redevelopment project, with designs created by David ... More

Work is underway on the £25.5m redevelopment of St Fagans: National History Museum in Cardiff, Wales. The project, which received £11.5m Heritage Lottery Funding, will ... More

Heritage Lottery Funding has been awarded to Plymouth's derelict Fort Bovisand, to help it further develop its £16m plans to transform the scheduled ancient monument ... More

Concept designs have been revealed for a £10.5m visitor centre and hostel at the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site in Northumberland National Park. Newcastle architects ... More

Dorchester’s Old Crown Court and Cells, famous for the trial of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, is set to be transformed into a visitor attraction as part ... More

A £2.5m project to transform the visitor experience at Norfolk’s 900-year-old Wymondham Abbey is now able to go ahead due to Heritage Lottery Funding worth ... More

A £2.5m project to transform the visitor experience at Norfolk’s 900-year-old Wymondham Abbey is now able to go ahead due to Heritage Lottery Funding worth ... More

Heritage Lottery Funding has been awarded to the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust to showcase the history of luxury car brand Aston Martin, which celebrates ... More

Somerset's Helicopter Museum, at Weston-super-Mare, has appointed an architect and consultants to prepare its bid for Heritage Lottery Funding, to improve the entrance and facilities ... More

Portsmouth City Council has announced plans to bid for £4.4m worth of Heritage Lottery Funding in order to redevelop and modernise the city's D-Day Museum. ... More

The first phase of a £10.6m project to refurbish Royal Court Theatre Liverpool is to start in February 2012 after receiving support from the Heritage ... More