Heritage Lottery Fund wants your views on the future of our heritage
What matters to you most about the UK’s heritage? Perhaps it’s the upkeep of a much-loved historic park or the secure future of a local museum. Perhaps it’s your local church, an important old building or a precious landscape you feel might need help.
With an annual awards budget of £300m to allocate from 2013, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is asking people across the UK about what is important to them and how HLF money should be invested in the future.
WWT has received nearly £6 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Some of our biggest projects of recent years, such as the new habitat creation and visitor centre at Castle Espie, the purchase and restoration of the Woodend Wetlands at Martin Mere and the new visitor centre building and access bridge at Welney, would not have been possible without HLF’s support.
Dame Jenny Abramsky, Chair of HLF, said: “As a Lottery funder awarding money raised by Lottery players, HLF believes people are at the heart of sustaining heritage in good condition and our money should make a difference for both heritage and communities.
"In our public questionnaire, we’re asking people for their personal views on what we fund and what we might do differently, as well as asking about people’s local heritage. We can only devise the very best strategy by listening closely to all those people who are enthusiastic about the UK’s heritage.”
Please go to www.hlf.org.uk/consultation2011 to fill out the public questionnaire by 26 April 2011.
