Summary
Six new areas join our Heritage Places - an initiative enabling communities to transform heritage across the UK
Aims and activities
Aims and questions
Aims and activities
Heritage Places is a long-term, targeted investment of around £200 million in up to 20 different areas across the UK supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Driven by our Heritage 2033 strategy, our aim is for heritage to be integral to collaborative plans making local areas better places to live, work and visit.
Our ambition by 2033 is to have supported projects in Heritage Places that:
- Target place-based investment that increases pride in place and connects communities and visitors with heritage
- Increase the capacity of local heritage to maximise its contribution to places and communities and enhance the wide-ranging benefits it can bring
- Create integrated and holistic schemes across the breadth of heritage, including, for example, anchor institutions, cultural heritage, and the natural environment
- Take a people-centred approach enabling everyone’s heritage to be recognised
Heritage Places are identified based on need, opportunity and potential using data about heritage, society and investment levels, alongside local insight.
How to get involved
We would like to hear from other funders that are active in our Heritage Places to understand your plans for investment and where there could be opportunities for alignment. Your investment could be in support of heritage organisations directly, or in support of wider community and placemaking outcomes that might complement this activity.
For more information, please contact Emma.copestake@heritagefund.org.uk or George.stanleyjones@heritagefund.org.uk
Who's involved
Who was involved
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Our six new Heritage Places are:
- Barking and Dagenham
- Belfast Historic Waterfront
- Dudley
- Orkney Islands
- Tameside
- Ynys Môn – Isle of Anglesey
These places join nine others announced in 2023:
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Council Area
- County Durham (focused around Shildon and Newton Aycliffe)
- Glasgow (focused on Sauchiehall Street, in the city centre)
- Leicester
- Medway
- Neath Port Talbot
- North-East Lincolnshire
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Torbay
Our investment is helping partner organisations in each of our Heritage Places to work collaboratively with the local community. Together, they are creating and delivering plans to boost the capacity and resilience of local heritage.
Learning and Resources
Methodology for how we’ve selected our Heritage Places can be found here:
