£150million funding to enhance and protect the UK’s world-class landscapes

National Lotteries Heritage Fund announces strategic initiative, Landscape Connections, which will support long-term projects to boost nature recovery and connect more people to our most treasured landscapes. We want to drive systemic and lasting change across the UK’s protected landscapes. Over the next 10 years we will invest in around 20 projects to work with local communities, organisations, landowners and farmers to put entire landscapes and habitats into recovery. The funding is open to those who care for or can partner with National Parks and National Landscapes in England and…

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Six organisations shortlisted for Sustainable Project of the Year 2024

The Museums + Heritage Awards have announced the shortlist for the sustainability category. Discover how these projects are demonstrating best practice. This award, sponsored by the Heritage Fund, celebrates projects that have environmental sustainability at their core, or use transferrable and easy to replicate ways to protect and build connections with our natural environment. Tackling the climate and ecological crisis together Catalysts for change, the shortlisted projects are making a positive impact on the environment and can empower others to do same through their learnings. The shortlist Brilli-ANT: How someone…

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Youngwummin project to uncover forgotten Scottish heroines of World War One

To mark 100 years since the end of World War One, YouthLink Scotland’s new heritage project with young researchers will uncover Scotland’s wartime heroines and explore women’s rights past and present. As part of Year of Young People 2018 and the centenary of World War One, Youngwummin, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in Scotland, will provide young people with an opportunity to explore women’s history and support them to conduct research on the impact of the war on young women in Scotland.  Five youth projects across the country will use…

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