National Heritage Memorial Fund news

Plans have been announced for the biggest ever expansion of the museum housing the Mary Rose, the historic warship of King Henry VIII. The main ... More

Former scientific publishing executive René Olivieri has taken over as chair of the UK's National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Heritage Memorial Fund on an ... More

The D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, UK, has secured £4.7m (US$6.3m, €5.3m) from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a complete restoration of an original Landing ... More

Ros Kerslake has been appointed chief executive of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF). Kerslake – who was awarded ... More

One of the UK’s largest stately homes has been bought by a conservation group for £7m (US$10.4m, €9.1m), with plans to invest upward of £42m ... More

The last surviving battleship of the First World War is to be transformed into a £12m (US$19.3m, €15.1m) floating museum, dedicated to the history of ... More

The last surviving First World War ship, HMS Caroline, has been given a £1m boost for urgent repair works with plans in the pipeline to ... More

Leisure sector organisations have issued a mixed response to the chancellor's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) published yesterday (20 October). George Osborne announced a 25 per ... More

A leaked Cabinet Office list has revealed that nearly 180 quangos are facing abolition as part of the coalition government's bid to cut public spending. ... More

Cadw and the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) have both awarded £335,000 towards efforts to preserve one of Wales' most significant buildings deemed to be ... More

Two major refurbishments of tourist destinations in York are under threat due to government spending cuts. The Yorkshire Forward Regional Development Agency had hoped to ... More

Plans to merge Sport England and UK Sport have been revealed as part of a wider shake-up of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's ... More

The University of Southampton has been received a grant worth nearly £2m from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) to help secure the Broadlands Archive ... More

A manifesto outlining the social and economic benefits of continued investment in the culture and heritage sectors has been unveiled by a number of leading ... More

A collection of more than 1,500 Anglo-Saxon artefacts - discovered in July 2009 by metal detectorist Terry Herbert - has been saved for the nation. ... More

The National Railway Museum (NRM) in York has revealed that work to restore the historic Flying Scotsman locomotive is set to take longer to complete ... More

Efforts to safeguard the future of the last remaining World War II motor boats have been successful after Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust (PNBPT) received ... More