Grant funders

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Lottery, England

Also known as HLF, Heritage Lottery Fund

United Kingdom 3 open calls
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Open calls 3
Given in 2025 £155.3m
Typical grant £132k Middle half £52k to £242k
New grantees in 2025 44% first grant from this funder

Open calls

Nature Networks Fund (round six) Rolling, no deadline Open National Lottery Heritage Grants £250,000 to £10million Rolling, no deadline · Up to £10.0m Open National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000 Rolling, no deadline · Up to £250k Open

Giving by year

44% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 26% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

London 4,446 grants · typical £48k
North West 3,894 grants · typical £31k
Scotland 3,852 grants · typical £38k
South West 3,796 grants · typical £35k
South East 3,625 grants · typical £43k
East of England 3,169 grants · typical £40k
West Midlands 3,057 grants · typical £30k
Yorkshire and The Humber 2,909 grants · typical £42k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

Loughs Agency "Foyle Flow: Our Stories, Our Rivers" £243k 29 Jun 2026
Tyrone Dippers "Reconnecting Strabane with Its Waterways" £10k 29 Jun 2026
Christ Church Morningside "‘All things that give sound’: saving and relocating the St Cuthbert’s Saltcoats organ to Christ Church Morningside" £177k 24 Jun 2026
Board Of Trustees For National Galleries Of Scotland "The Art Works" £8.5m 24 Jun 2026
Morecambe Bay Partnership "#LC Arnside & Silverdale Landscape Connections" £1.0m 24 Jun 2026
Live Learn Earn C.I.C "The Sommerfeld Spitfire" £36k 24 Jun 2026
Vision Mechanics "Marionettes Restrung" £78k 24 Jun 2026
Cornwall Council "#LC? Cornwall Landscape Connections" £1.1m 24 Jun 2026
Dundee Museum of Transport (SCIO) "A new permanent exhibition for Dundee Museum of Transport" £247k 24 Jun 2026
Craigmillar Now "Craigmillar Now: A Worldwide Web" £93k 24 Jun 2026

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