Information extracted from
The HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND Web Site
at http://www.hlf.org.uk/

The National Lottery was set up by parliament in 1993. It raises money for a range of good causes that benefit communities across the United Kingdom. From every pound spent on a Lottery ticket, 28p goes directly to good causes in the following categories:

· Arts
· Charities
· Heritage
· Projects to celebrate the new millennium
· Sports
· Health, education and the environment

4.66p from every pound goes to heritage projects.

Different organisations are responsible for making National Lottery grants to projects in each of the six different categories. These organisations are known as 'distributing bodies'. The Heritage Lottery Fund makes grants for projects about heritage anywhere in the United Kingdom, but we do not make grants for things that are more to do with one of the other good causes.

Our staff work in different departments and teams with special responsibilities. These include communications, finance, information technology, legal services, operations, personnel, policy, and support for our board of trustees and committees.

Our operations department is organised into twelve teams. Each handles the applications we receive and the grants that we give in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, or one of the nine regions of England.

Our Corporate Plan

Our Corporate Plan is an essential document that focuses on the way we use our resources to achieve our objectives and priorities.

By reading this you can find out more about:

· Our aims and operating principles
· Priorities
· Resource allocation
· Heritage sector and programme allocations
· Delivery and service delivery targets

Our commitment to you

Underpinning all of our activities is a desire to provide an efficient, economical and effective service that is easily accessible to potential and actual applicants, and all who want to find out more about what we do.

The Prime Minister appoints 14 trustees and a chair to run the National Heritage Memorial Fund. The same trustees make decisions about the Heritage Lottery Fund. They receive advice from heritage experts, and work within laws made by parliament and directions given by the government. But our decisions about individual applications and matters of policy are made entirely independently.

The different laws that govern what we do are listed below.

We are officially known as a 'non-departmental public body'. This means that although we are not a government department, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport ultimately answers to parliament for the way we work. He or she directs us to spend money in a fair way and in line with certain aims and priorities. Remember, though, that our decisions about individual projects and policies are entirely independent.

Below you can find information about:

Our aims

The Heritage Lottery Fund uses money from the National Lottery. We give grants to support a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom.

We want to help groups and organisations of all sizes with projects that aim to do the following:

· Care for and protect our heritage
· Increase understanding and enjoyment of our heritage
· Give people a better opportunity to experience heritage by improving access
· Improve people`s quality of life by benefiting the community and wider public

We group these aims into four `strategic priorities` that guide our policy and underpin our decisions on funding:

Heritage includes many different things and places that we have inherited from previous generations. Among these are:

Heritage includes people as well as places, and so our funding also covers cultural and local traditions.

Who can apply for a grant?

You can apply for a grant from us if:

We do not make grants for projects concerning individual sites or buildings that are privately or commercially owned. But we can consider a project put forward by a not-for-profit organisation which includes privately owned property as part of a wider area, or `umbrella` scheme.

What kinds of project will we support?

We will support work designed to care for our heritage and help people to experience it. For example:

· Building repairs and conservation work
· Buying items, land or buildings which are important to our heritage
· Making it easier for people to gain access to and enrich their experience of heritage

We will also support activities that will increase people`s understanding and enjoyment of our heritage. These activities must be on top of the normal work of the organisation and be completed within three years. We support activities that:

· Are designed to widen knowledge of the heritage, especially for children and young people
· Aim to increase participation, especially from people who have not been involved in heritage before, and disadvantaged groups
· Increase popular involvement in recording and conserving the heritage
· Involve volunteers and the local community in our heritage

What we will not fund

You cannot get a Heritage Lottery Fund grant for:

· Projects that do not have a heritage focus, for example refurbishing a building of no heritage value
· Work that would normally be the responsibility of the owner or local authority, for example routine repairs and maintenance in hospitals, educational buildings, council offices and other public buildings and spaces
· Buying furniture, fittings and general equipment that are not essential to your project
· General running costs, for example regular ongoing staff costs, rates or fuel bills
· Marketing and publicity that are not to do with your project
· Regular rent payments
· Loan payments, including mortgages

Projects that care for and protect heritage are at the core of our work. The heritage must be preserved in order for other important benefits to flow from it. Often, conservation work of some kind is needed simply in order to avert irreversible damage. But we have always seen conservation as far more than an end in itself. We seek to secure a wide range of public benefits from our funding. Among these benefits are the many ways in which heritage projects can stimulate regeneration in both urban and rural environments.

The following examples outline some of the wider benefits that heritage projects can bring:

· Social – for example by involving local people such as volunteers, children and their schools, in the design and long-term care and use of sites
· Economic – for example creating jobs or encouraging tourism
· Environmental – for example providing information on how to get to a project by public transport, by foot or by bike
· Wider heritage benefits – for example helping to protect a local nature reserve and showing how it relates to wider environmental issues

In all these ways and more we are helping to protect the UK`s heritage, in all its richness and diversity, and give it a meaningful and productive present day role that can bring about real improvements in the quality of life.

Some parts of our heritage are so outstanding that they will always be of national importance. The Heritage Lottery Fund plays a key role in supporting this on a scale that would not otherwise be possible. Through `beacon projects` and other major schemes, we aim to reinvigorate the very best of the United Kingdom`s inheritance. These heritage assets include great achievements of industrial engineering, museum and library collections, buildings and landscapes, that because of their special quality attract visitors from throughout Britain and abroad.

We want to support projects that improve people`s opportunities to access, engage with and learn about heritage. We are particularly keen on widening participation from disadvantaged groups and people who have not been involved in heritage before.

Improving access to the heritage can take many forms:

· Physical – for example, a project that makes it possible for visitors with disabilities, or with young children, to enjoy an historic building or site
· Cultural – for example, a project that aims to show the relevance of heritage to a wider group of people, especially those who may have a view that heritage is `not for us`
· Sensory – for example, a project to improve signage or develop different ways of interpreting heritage such as through touch or sound
· Intellectual – for example, a project that provides information to meet different learning needs

Improving people`s awareness and understanding of heritage can be achieved in many different ways. Examples might include:

· Running a programme of learning activities linked to a museum exhibition
· Collecting spoken history records and creating a free learning pack
· Introducing volunteers to new skills and areas of interest
· Working with local teachers to develop educational materials linked to a local nature reserve

The Heritage Lottery Fund is helping communities throughout the United Kingdom to protect and open up their countryside, parks and gardens and to make vital contributions to nature conservation. We particularly want to encourage projects involving land and countryside that is of outstanding importance, especially where this is at risk. We also encourage strategic projects that aim to improve a whole area or a particular type of landscape.

We can make grants to buy, conserve and manage land of importance for its scenery, history, wildlife, cultural, or local value. We normally look to see whether the land is `designated` (for example, as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), but we can also support other types of land and countryside, especially that of local importance.

Wherever possible we want more people to be able to enjoy our land and countryside, and understand more about it. We particularly want our grants to enable better access for disabled people. Of course, it is vitally important that the countryside is protected for future generations to enjoy, so applicants must ensure an appropriate balance between conservation and access.

We also make grants for historic parks, gardens and other urban green spaces. We can help to restore, regenerate and improve access to these important sites, and ensure that they continue to be enjoyed by everyone, especially their local communities. We particularly want our grants for urban parks to help contribute to the regeneration of deprived areas.

The good news is that we have already funded 933 projects for countryside, parks and gardens with grants totalling £313,764,822.

The Heritage Lottery Fund is making huge contributions to help save our industrial, transport and maritime heritage. In an area that has often been overlooked by other types of public funding, we are continuing to make grants to help communities buy, repair, conserve and restore things and places relating to this heritage. These include buildings, sites, items and collections. We also want people to have better access to their industrial, transport and maritime heritage and to understand more about it.

Rather than supporting major new developments, or the funding of replicas, we want to address the major conservation needs of our industrial, transport and maritime heritage. We give the highest priority to projects that bring collections under weatherproof cover. This helps to ensure that these are preserved for future generations as well as our own.

The good news is that we have already funded 276 projects for industrial, transport and maritime heritage with grants totalling £128,004,983.

The Heritage Lottery Fund is continuing to make a big difference by helping communities to protect and open up important records such as local history archives, photographic collections, spoken history records, rare books, manuscripts and archives of all kinds.

We are giving grants to make sure that these records are properly conserved and better housed and presented. We want to support projects that help people to get better access to the records and understand more about them. We can also help buy important items to add to existing collections, and can make grants for appropriate projects to convert information about the collections into electronic form.

By supporting the compilation of oral histories, we are helping to emphasise the link between personal experience and family history and the broader themes of both local and national heritage. Access to local historical records is also being extended through the use of new communications technology.

The good news is that we have already funded 309 projects for records with grants totalling £107,380,150.

The Heritage Lottery Fund is continuing to make a big difference by helping people to access and enjoy historic buildings and sites, and making sure that these are restored and preserved for the future.

We particularly want to encourage projects that help to save buildings at risk or which find appropriate new uses for old buildings. We want our grants to have real benefits for every community, and so we fund buildings and sites of local value as well as those of outstanding national importance. Many of our grants help to contribute to the regeneration of deprived areas.

We are normally only able to fund those buildings and structures that are Scheduled, Listed or sited in a Conservation Area. These labels tell us whether there is special architectural or historic importance. If you don't know whether your group's building or structure is in one of these categories, your local council may be able to tell you.

The good news is that we have already funded 1822 projects for historic buildings with grants totalling £473,999,337.

Townscape Heritage Initiative

Through our Townscape Heritage Initiative, we make grants that help communities to regenerate the historic parts of their towns and cities. The programme is designed to address problems in areas of particular social and economic need throughout the United Kingdom. It encourages partnerships to carry out repairs and other works to a number of different historic properties within those areas, and so to improve the quality of life for all those who live, work or visit there.

Places of worship

In partnership with English Heritage, we have set up a special Joint Grant Scheme for Churches and Other Places of Worship. This is designed to help address many of the problems associated with the repair and improvement of historic places of worship. Under this scheme we target our grants at those communities with a particular social and economic need.

This special scheme operates only in England, but we continue to make grants for churches and places of worship elsewhere in the United Kingdom through our main funding programmes.

The Heritage Lottery Fund is making a huge contribution to help people enjoy and get more from their museums, galleries and other important collections. We want every community to be able to benefit from our grants. We have now funded all ten of the nation's most visited free entry museums and galleries, as well as hundreds of local and regional collections up and down the country.

Rather than giving grants to set up new museums, we normally target our funding at projects to improve existing collections of strong heritage importance.

We give grants for projects that improve the housing, cataloguing and presentation of museum and gallery collections, and help people learn more from the collections and make them more relevant and accessible to more people. Just as importantly, we make grants to help museums and galleries buy extra items or works of art, provide better storage facilities, and carry out essential conservation work to make sure that future generations can also enjoy them.

We believe that the ability to explore and understand the past must go hand in hand with conservation. Our investment in all aspects of the development of museums and galleries has helped them to open up their collections to more people from a wider range of backgrounds.

The good news is that we have already funded 809 projects for museums and collections with grants totalling £627,155,629.

Museums and Galleries Access Fund

Our Museums and Galleries Access Fund was set up to help museums and galleries make their collections accessible to the widest possible audience. It gives support for temporary and touring exhibitions, as well as for projects that enable museums to test innovative proposals to widen and develop access.

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Putting together an application

Please read through the relevant application form and help notes, and consider the different kinds of information you will need to provide in order to answer the questions.

Please keep the help notes and other information beside you, or on your computer, and refer to them while you are filling in the form. It is important to answer every question as clearly as you can and to provide the extra information asked for in the checklist. This is so that we can make a quick decision on your project.

If your application does not contain enough information for us to be able to assess your project, we may have to return it to you without making a decision.

Getting advice on your application

You should get advice on your project at an early stage from your local authority or an appropriate conservation organisation or heritage agency, for example the Countryside Agency or your Area Museums Council. Their comments will help you to plan your project and will also help us to assess it. The 'links` page of our website provides a list of some possible sources of advice.

Application forms

Two of our grant-giving schemes – Awards for All and the Local Heritage Initiative – are specially intended to support heritage projects run by small local groups.

We have several grant-giving schemes designed for different types and sizes of heritage projects:

Awards for All

If you are a local group and you need between £500 and £5,000 then Awards for All may be able to help you. In partnership with other National Lottery distributors, we make grants through Awards for All to involve people in their local community and bring them together to take part in a wide range of activities. Awards for All grants are made to small community groups, usually with an annual income of less than £15,000.

Through Awards for All we want to widen the appreciation and understanding of heritage by helping local groups to introduce people to heritage for the first time or to extend their experience to different types of heritage. We also want to increase participation by local people as volunteers in practical activities such as maintenance, recording and interpreting the heritage.

Local Heritage Initiative

The Countryside Agency runs the Local Heritage Initiative for the Heritage Lottery Fund. This supports a wide range of local heritage projects with grants of between £3,000 and £15,000. It helps local groups to investigate, explain and care for their local landscape, landmarks, traditions and culture.

Grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 for heritage projects

We have made it easier and quicker to apply for grants of between £5,000 and £50,000. There is a simpler application pack and, if you apply, you should normally hear our decision within three months of us receiving your filled in application form.

Larger projects

There are separate application processes for projects requesting grants of over £50,000.

Joint Grant Scheme for Churches and Other Places of Worship

In partnership with English Heritage, we have set up a special Joint Grant Scheme for Churches and Other Places of Worship. This is designed to help address many of the problems associated with the repair and improvement of historic places of worship. Under this scheme we target our grants at those communities with a particular social and economic need.

This special scheme operates only in England, but we continue to make grants for churches and places of worship elsewhere in the United Kingdom through our main funding programmes.

Museums and Galleries Access Fund

This scheme helps museums and galleries bring their collections to a wider audience, especially among disadvantaged or excluded groups. We give support for temporary and touring exhibitions, as well as for projects that enable museums and galleries to test innovative proposals to widen and develop access.

Townscape Heritage Initiative

Through our Townscape Heritage Initiative, we make grants that help communities to regenerate the historic parts of their towns and cities. The programme is designed to address problems in areas of particular social and economic need throughout the United Kingdom. It encourages partnerships to carry out repairs and other works to a number of different historic properties within those areas, and so to improve the quality of life for all those who live, work or visit there.

Urban Parks Programme

This scheme makes grants to help restore historic parks and other historic public green spaces in towns and cities. Our awards through the Urban Parks Programme focus on areas of high social and economic deprivation.

When you send your completed application to us, one of our grants officers will assess it. First of all we will look at whether it meets the criteria and priorities set out in the relevant application pack.

We will also look at:

· Whether there is a need or demand (or both) for your project

· Whether your project is well thought out (including a realistic view of its longer-term role) and will involve work of high quality

· How you plan to manage your project during and after completion
· How you will measure your project's success in meeting its aims
· Whether your project costs are sound and will provide good value for money overall

When we are considering your application we may phone you for more information about your project.

What happens next?

You should normally hear our decision within three months of us receiving your filled in application form for grants of £5,000 to £50,000, or six months for other applications. If your application is successful we will send you a letter saying how much the grant is. If your application is not successful we will tell you the reasons why. This may help you decide whether to apply again.

Starting the project

You must not start your project until you have our written permission.

On this page you can find information about what happens if your application is successful and you get a grant from us.

Monitoring and grant payments

If your application is successful, we will send you information on how to monitor your project so that you can keep us informed of its progress and how well it is meeting its aims. You will need to send us regular reports on what you have achieved so that we can release instalments of your grant.

We will normally pay your grant by paying the agreed grant percentage of each invoice you receive for work done on your project. This must be work that you have described in your application and that we have agreed to fund. Our staff will be able to tell you more about the way we pay our grants.

If we award you a grant, you will have to keep to our terms and conditions. You will also have to keep to any legislation that affects the way you carry out your project. By signing our contract you are agreeing to keep to our terms and conditions if you receive a grant.

We share out the proceeds from the National Lottery, which is public money. Acknowledging that we have given you a grant shows the public how we are spending their money.

Under your contract, if you get a grant from us, you must make a permanent public acknowledgement of your grant. We will check that you do this in the most suitable way.

This means that from the announcement of your award, you must identify your project as a Heritage Lottery Fund project. As well as a suitable acknowledgement on the site or at the organisation carrying out the project, you must also acknowledge the grant in all the relevant publicity material.

Application forms for the Heritage Lottery Fund Main Grants Programme and Revenue Grants Programme are now available for download.

Please read these notes fully before downloading the forms.

Help notes

Before beginning an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund, it is essential that you read carefully our Information for Applicants and Special Guidance publications. We also recommend that you read the latest issue of Lottery Update.

Downloading and opening the files

When you click on one of the links at the bottom of this page, you will start the process of downloading the electronic application forms. These are held as `self-extracting zip files`. All the software needed to open and run them is brought to your computer during the download. The process is very straightforward, but as each of the files is approximately 1.4mb in size, it may take some time to complete.

You can use the electronic application forms on most PCs, but unfortunately they do not work with Mac computers.

First of all, you will be asked whether you want to `Run this program from its current location` or `Save this program to disk`. It will probably be easier to choose the latter option. Select this and then click `OK`.

You can now choose the location on your computer or network where you would like the files to be saved. Do this and then click `Save`. The actual downloading process will begin. When you see the `Download Complete` message, click the button labelled `Open`.

Next, the computer will ask which folder you want to `unzip` the files to. Don`t worry about the jargon, just choose a convenient folder and then click `Unzip`. Click `OK` as soon as you see the prompt. You are now ready to open the files that have been downloaded.

The most straightforward way to do this is by using Windows Explorer, or the equivalent file management software on your computer. Go to the folder you specified for the `unzip` process and double-click on the appropriate file. This will probably show as a picture of a small yellow filing cabinet with the file name alongside.

As the application forms are not created as word processing documents, they will not open using software such as Word. You should use the method described above to open the forms.

Using the forms

The appropriate application form will now be launched. It will have completely filled your computer screen, but if you need to switch between different software applications (for example to copy and paste from a word processing document or to check your e-mails) you can do this by holding down the `Alt` key and pressing `Tab` at the same time.

You can type directly onto the electronic version of the form and print this off before sending it to us. The forms will not allow you to type over-long answers or to alter the layout. This is so that every application we receive will be in a standard format.

As with all applications, we need to see three signed and printed copies of your application and all supporting information. Every page of an electronically generated application form must be signed by the Chairman or Chief Executive of the applicant organisation as well as being signed under the declaration at the end. We cannot accept applications on disk or by e-mail.

Submitting your application

When complete, your application should be sent to the appropriate Heritage Lottery Fund office:

England:
7 Holbein Place, London SW1W 8NR

Application Pack documents and forms

Essential reading:

`Information for Applicants`
(contains information on making an application, the Main Grants Programme, the Revenue Grants Programme, partnership funding and further information such as standard conditions of grant)

`Special Guidance`
(contains information on funding priorities within the different categories of project)

`Preparing Your Business Plan for a Capital Project`
`Historic Parks and Gardens`

Forms:

Please remember that every page of an electronically generated application form must be signed by the Chairman or Chief Executive of the applicant organisation as well as being signed under the declaration at the end.

Forms available for download are

Main Grants Programme application form
Revenue Grants Programme application form
Local Authority Notification form
Feedback form
Frequently asked questions

You need to send in your completed application form together with two copies of this. You need to send us three sets of all additional material.

2. When are the deadlines for sending in an application?

For most applications there are no deadlines and you can send in your application whenever you are ready. However, there are deadlines for the following type of application:

With all applications you should remember to allow enough time for us to assess your application before you want the project to start (see below).

3. How much money can we apply for?

If your project costs under £100,000, you can apply for up to 90% of the total. If your project costs over £100,000, you can apply for up to 75% of the total. However, you should try to get as much money from other sources as you can.

4. How long before we get a decision?

If you are using the application form for grants of £5,000 to £50,000, you should normally hear our decision within three months of us receiving your filled in application form. You should allow six months for us to assess other types of application. You must not start your project until you have our written permission.

5. My application pack is dated April 1998. Is it still valid?

Yes, the current pack is dated April 1998. However, if you want a grant of between £5,000 and £50,000 there is a new, much simpler application pack. If your application pack has a date before April 1998 it is no longer valid.

6. Can private individuals apply?

Because we target our funding at public and not-for-profit organisations, we do not make grants for projects concerning individual sites or buildings that are privately or commercially owned. But we can consider a project put forward by a not-for-profit organisation which includes privately owned property as part of a wider area, or `umbrella` scheme.

7. Can our organisation make more than one application to HLF?

Yes, all organisations, including local authorities, can make more than one application. However, if your organisation has already received a major award, an application that you make for a different project may be given lower priority. We use our grants to support and develop as wide a range of heritage organisations as possible rather than to make repeated grants to the same applicants. Please note we expect to have only one revenue application from your organisation under consideration at any one time.

8. Do you give grants for village or community halls?

We can fund village or community halls that are of historic or architectural importance. We are normally only able to fund those buildings and structures that are Scheduled, Listed or sited in a Conservation Area.

9. What is your fast track service for?

We offer a fast track assessment process for applicants who face an urgent deadline to buy property or objects on the open market, for example at a private sale or auction. We can only offer this route when the project is straightforward and low risk, for example the acquisition of an object by an established museum, or the acquisition of a further piece of land by an established conservation body.

10. Are there electronic versions of your application packs?

Yes, you can download these from our website.

The North West is a region characterised by its sheer scale and diversity. From the wealth of heritage in the cities of Liverpool and Manchester and important regional centres such as Preston, to the less populated, but no less significant rural areas of Cheshire, Cumbria and Lancashire, the North West is a region of outstanding importance.

The special quality of the North West's built heritage, particularly in Liverpool which has more listed buildings than any other UK city outside London, is matched by the beauty of its many historic parks. Birkenhead Park, for example, is of international importance. The region's rural landscape and wildlife is unsurpassed but often understated, except in the internationally renowned Lake District National Park. The urban and rural landscape of the North West is equalled by the quality and significance of its historic museum, archive and library collections, many housed in buildings of superb quality. The splendour of the collections – set in magnificent buildings within vibrant towns and cities, that are themselves surrounded by outstanding countryside – can be considered a defining quality of the North West.

There is just as much heritage wealth in the culture and history of the people. This includes communities who have had links with the region for generations as well as more recently settled ethnic communities, whose cultural traditions add to the North West's vibrancy. The Heritage Lottery Fund can help bring these traditions to life for everyone to celebrate.

The North West is also a region of significant challenges, whether rural or urban deprivation and disadvantage or unrealised potential. We can help address the needs and aspirations of the region's communities by supporting heritage projects which safeguard wildlife, buildings or collections, revive forgotten talents or hidden community memories and experiences. The Heritage Lottery Fund wants every community in the North West to benefit from and enjoy their heritage, whether of local, national or international importance.

Our awards

The Heritage Lottery Fund is making a real difference in the North West. As at 6 August 2001, we have funded 438 projects with grants totalling £203,426,016.

Our team

You can also write to us at Heritage Lottery Fund, North West Team,
7 Holbein Place, London SW1W 8NR.

Our committee

We have set up a separate Committee for the North West. The members of this committee are people who know the region and its particular needs. They are responsible to the main board of trustees, and make decisions on grant requests of up to £1 million in the area.

Committee for the North West

Dr Andrew White is Chairman of our Committee for the North West. He is currently Head of Museums at Lancaster City Council, having spent 29 years in museum work at Middlesbrough, Lincoln and Lancaster. He has a BA and MA in Classics from Lancaster University and a doctorate in Archaeology from Nottingham. He is a Fellow of both the Museums Association and the Society of Antiquaries of London. He has been much involved throughout his career in training and supporting new aspirants in the museum profession as a tutor, examiner and mentor.

Dr White is also Chairman of the North West Museums Service and a member of the North West Cultural Consortium. He has written many articles for learned journals, and a number of books on local history, shipping and architecture in Lancashire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. He also broadcasts and lectures widely. Among his interests are music, visiting historical monuments and gardens, ceramics, townscape history, Georgian architecture, visiting European cities, churches and bell ringing. He is currently consultant to Blackburn Diocesan Advisory Committee on archaeology, bells and clocks.

Project:: Islamic Academy, Manchester
Applicant:: The Islamic Academy of Manchester
Application Date:: 4 July 2001
Type:: Building refurbishment
Grant Requested:: £736,075.00

Project:: The Gaskell House, 84 Plymouth Grove
Applicant:: Manchester Historic Buildings Trust
Application Date:: 6 July 2001
Type:: Building refurbishment
Grant Requested:: £1,521,690.00

Project:: Revealing Cheshire`s Past
Applicant:: Cheshire County Council
Application Date:: 6 July 2001
Type:: Public access and exhibition
Grant Requested:: £103,156.00

Project:: Promenade Gardens, St Annes
Applicant:: Fylde Borough Council
Application Date:: 13 July 2001
Type:: Conservation and restoration
Grant Requested:: £14,625.00

Project:: Modernising History
Applicant:: Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Application Date:: 9 August 2001
Type:: Public access and exhibition
Grant Requested:: £374,000.00

Project:: Portland Basin Heritage Centre
Applicant:: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Application Date:: 14 August 2001
Type:: Public access and exhibition
Grant Requested:: £375,000.00

Project:: St. Thomas, Leesfield
Applicant:: The Parochial Church Council
Application Date:: 24 August 2001
Type:: Historic building repair
Grant Requested:: £253,304.00

Project:: St Paul, Stoneycroft
Applicant:: The Parochial Church Council of St Paul Stoneycroft
Application Date:: 6 September 2001
Type:: Historic building repair
Grant Requested:: £1,264,500.00

Project:: St John the Evangelist, Blackpool
Applicant:: The Parochial Church Council
Application Date:: 6 September 2001
Type:: Building refurbishment
Grant Requested:: £150,000.00

Project:: St George the Martyr, Barrow in Furness
Applicant:: St George with St Luke Parochial Church Council
Application Date:: 6 September 2001
Type:: Building refurbishment
Grant Requested:: £776,310.00

Project:: Scottie Press Community Newspaper
Applicant:: Vauxhall Neighbourhood Council
Application Date:: 7 September 2001
Type:: Increasing study, understanding and enjoyment
Grant Requested:: £133,435.00

Project:: South Pennines Heritage Access Programme
Applicant:: Rochdale MBC
Application Date:: 13 September 2001
Type:: Increasing study, understanding and enjoyment
Grant Requested:: £75,000.00

Project:: Foot & Mouth Cultural and Social Documentation
Applicant:: Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
Application Date:: 9 October 2001
Type:: Cataloguing
Grant Requested:: £50,000.00

Project:: Lion Salt Works
Applicant:: Lion Salt Works Trust
Application Date:: 10 October 2001
Type:: Public access and exhibition
Grant Requested:: £3,250,700.00

Project:: Historic Landscape Survey & Restoration Management Plan, Brockhole
Applicant:: Lake District National Park Authority
Application Date:: 11 October 2001
Type:: Surveys/Feasibilities
Grant Requested:: £22,357.50

Project:: Towneley Park Restoration
Applicant:: Burnley Borough Council
Application Date:: 15 October 2001
Type:: Conservation and restoration
Grant Requested:: £1,450,506.00

Project:: Greater Manchester Museums Comonwealth Comic
Applicant:: Arts About Manchester
Application Date:: 15 October 2001
Type:: Developing new audiences
Grant Requested:: £50,000.00

Project:: Florence Mine Heritage Centre
Applicant:: West Cumbria Mines Research Group
Application Date:: 15 October 2001
Type:: Public access and exhibition
Grant Requested:: £30,884.69

Project:: Birkenhead Park
Applicant:: Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Application Date:: 22 October 2001
Type:: Conservation and restoration
Grant Requested:: £6,667,723.00