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Heritage Lottery Fund
The mission of the Heritage Lottery Fund is to improve the quality of life by safeguarding and enhancing the heritage of buildings, objects and the environment of the United Kingdom.
In the nine years since it began, the National Lottery has raised over £2,700 million, an average of more than £300 million each year, to support projects which preserve and enhance, or widen public access to, the national heritage. These can be land and countryside, parks, historic buildings and sites, museum collections, archives, and industrial, transport and maritime heritage.
HLF special programmes include the Joint Places of Worship Scheme (operated with English Heritage), the Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) and the Public Parks initative.
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The THI enables partnerships of local, regional and national interests to preserve and enhance the distinctive character of historic areas. The Public Parks initative provides funding for improved facilities, including recreation of play facilities, and park officers for historic parks and designed landscapes.
Other schemes operated are:
- The Local Heritage Initiative (managed by the Countryside Agency on behalf of HLF) to encourage local communities in villages and small towns to help care for their own local heritage
- Revenue grants such as Awards for All and Museums and Galleries Access Fund
- Small grants scheme for capital projects up to £50,000
To date, the total value of capital and revenue grants offered by HLF is 2.8 billion, and the total number of grants is 14,000.
For further information, contact the Heritage Lottery Fund, 7 Holbein Place, London SW1W 8NR, telephone: 020 7591 6042 or Textphone 020 7591 6255 (for Minicom users only).
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