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08/08/2001
Lottery money invests £12 million in NI heritage
In their annual report published this week, The Heritage Lottery Fund has revealed they have spent over £12 million on projects in Northern Ireland within the past year.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), which derives its capital from the National Lottery Good Causes, provides financial support for the protection and enhancement of heritage of local, regional or national importance for the benefit of communities throughout the UK. In Northern Ireland over the past 12 months a total of 34 projects have benefited from lottery funding.
Top projects supported by HLF funding include the redevelopment of the Linen Hall Library, which received over £2 million as part of a £3.3 million investment, and the Ballymena Area Museum which received £4.4 million.
The Northern Ireland Film Commission also finalised an important digitised film archive of local footage from the last century. Attracting funding of 150,000, the Millennium Regional Films Archive is accessible at most libraries and media centres such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
The countryside benefited again from HLF funding, notably Northern Ireland’s first ever nature reserve, the coastal South Down Heathland Project in Murlough. Through the HLF’s special environmental programme, Tomorrow’s Heathland Heritage, the distinctive sand dune heathland of Murlough will be gradually restored over the next five years.
Other projects involved the regeneration of historic towns and villages. Under the Townscape Heritage Initiative in Northern Ireland, £9.5 million has been awarded to 16 towns during the past three years. Towns such as Caledon and Draperstown have been supported by this scheme as well as work on a number of historic churches such as St George’s in Belfast and St Mark’s Dundela. (AMcE)
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), which derives its capital from the National Lottery Good Causes, provides financial support for the protection and enhancement of heritage of local, regional or national importance for the benefit of communities throughout the UK. In Northern Ireland over the past 12 months a total of 34 projects have benefited from lottery funding.
Top projects supported by HLF funding include the redevelopment of the Linen Hall Library, which received over £2 million as part of a £3.3 million investment, and the Ballymena Area Museum which received £4.4 million.
The Northern Ireland Film Commission also finalised an important digitised film archive of local footage from the last century. Attracting funding of 150,000, the Millennium Regional Films Archive is accessible at most libraries and media centres such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
The countryside benefited again from HLF funding, notably Northern Ireland’s first ever nature reserve, the coastal South Down Heathland Project in Murlough. Through the HLF’s special environmental programme, Tomorrow’s Heathland Heritage, the distinctive sand dune heathland of Murlough will be gradually restored over the next five years.
Other projects involved the regeneration of historic towns and villages. Under the Townscape Heritage Initiative in Northern Ireland, £9.5 million has been awarded to 16 towns during the past three years. Towns such as Caledon and Draperstown have been supported by this scheme as well as work on a number of historic churches such as St George’s in Belfast and St Mark’s Dundela. (AMcE)
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