Scotland: National Rural Network
Eight projects in Scotland received a share of over £5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund in their July round. Projects range from a drystone walling project in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire to repairs of places of worship.
The Abbotsford Trust has been awarded a grant of £4,850,000 from Heritage Grants to develop a project to restore Abbotsford, the historic house and estate which were the creation and home of Sir Walter Scott.
Upcoming deadlines for First Round applications to Heritage Lottery Fund special programmes are:
You can get more information on the Heritage Lottery Fund website. You can also get further information in the Heritage Lottery Fund newsletter June 2010.
BTCV, an environmental volunteering charity, has been awarded a grant towards a training project to repair drystone walls which are an important built heritage feature of many Scottish landscapes. Drystone walls are also part of our natural heritage as their mortar-free build provides a habitat for small animals, mosses and lichens but are costly and difficult to repair, which sees many replaced by wire fences.
This two year project will train over 100 volunteers from Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire, many from marginalised communities, in this traditional heritage skill. The project will also provide training in first aid, leadership skills and health and safety for participants identified as 'key volunteers/ future leaders'. Awarded £42,700 from Your Heritage fund.
RSPB Scotland has been awarded a grant of £50,000 towards a project that will create a new nature reserve at the Crook of Baldoon on the Solway coast. The site will become part of the Wigtown Bay Local Nature Reserve and will allow an intensively farmed area to be restored to wetland boosting populations of a number of endangered and Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) species.
A Community Wildlife Officer will be recruited to develop a schools and community engagement programme which will deliver activities to engage people with the natural heritage such as guided walks, talks, family days, species identification workshops and nest box building. A volunteer programme will involve locals at each stage of the habitat work and in the running of the new reserve. A car park and picnic area will also be created, improving facilities for visitors. Awarded £50,000 from Your Heritage.
Meadowside St Paul's Church of Scotland, Dundee has been awarded a grant of £83,000 towards a programme of repairs focusing on the tower and spire of the B-listed building. An existing website and guide to the history of the church will be updated including an online virtual tour of the building.
The purpose of the Repair Grants for Places of Worship scheme is to fund emergency high level repairs to listed places of worship to ensure that they are wind and watertight. The scheme is run in partnership with Historic Scotland. Awarded funds from Repair Grants for Places of Worship.
Crosshouse Parish Church in Kilmarnock has been awarded a grant of £27,000 towards a programme of high-level repairs to the C(S) listed building. Works focus principally on masonry repairs to the church tower including restoration of the stone finials. Public access to the church is available out with the usual times of worship and the church's website provides information on the heritage of the building.
The purpose of the Repair Grants for Places of Worship scheme is to fund emergency high level repairs to listed places of worship to ensure that they are wind and watertight. The scheme is run in partnership with Historic Scotland.
The Scottish Book Trust (SBT) has been awarded a grant of £28,200 to run a national public heritage campaign to inspire people to connect to their cultural heritage by writing about their family history. The project will help collect and celebrate remarkable stories from people across Scotland by empowering individuals through workshops and outreach events. The stories will be drawn from tales passed down through generations, uncovering Scotland's rich and diverse cultural heritage.
The project will enhance literacy skills and the grant will go towards encouraging schools, communities and individuals to get involved through oral history and story writing workshops which will then be incorporated into a book and website resource. Selected stories will also be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland.
The Scottish Allotments and Gardens Society has been awarded a grant of £32,000 to run a project which will facilitate allotment holders and school groups in recording oral histories and researching the contribution that allotments and community growing have made to the culture and communities of Glasgow. Ten allotments, two community gardens and three school groups will be involved.
Participants will play a role in making decisions as to how the information will be recorded and shared, and each allotment will create their own leaflet outlining the history and heritage of their specific site. A database of research and archive material will be accessible via SAGS website.
The Abbotsford Trust has been awarded a grant of £4,850,000 from Heritage Grants to develop a project to restore Abbotsford, the historic house and estate which were the creation and home of Sir Walter Scott. The house, its collections and the estate are of exceptional historic significance and are in serious need of repair, conservation and interpretation. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is considered Scotland's greatest writer, with an international reputation during his own lifetime. He is widely credited as the founding father of the modern novel and his influence extended far beyond his writing. Scott brought Scotland to the attention of an international audience and promoted a romantic vision of Scottish, and particularly Highland, culture which still survives. The principal rooms remain as Scott left them, having attracted visitors even during Scott's own lifetime, having been opened to the public in the year of his death and remaining open to the public ever since.
Abbotsford is the house Scott designed for himself (with the assistance of a "Committee of Taste" of his friends) in a new style he invented which became known as the Scottish Baronial style. The huge library Scott developed at Abbotsford is extremely rare, in being the personal library of such a well-known figure yet still intact and in situ and arranged exactly as it was when Scott was alive. The project seeks to encapsulate the story of Scott and articulate it in a way which will appeal to a modern Scottish and international audience, thereby regenerating interest through inventive presentation and inspiring educational programmes. Rooms will be restored and a learning suite will be created in the basement. All the existing interpretation will be enhanced throughout the house and estate and a new reception building will be created to accommodate an exhibition which will introduce Sir Walter Scott and Abbotsford and explain their relationship, development and significance.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Lanark has been awarded a grant of £82,500 towards high-level repairs to exterior stonework, roof and rainwater goods of the church building to make the building wind and watertight. The A-listed building is in a prominent location within the town and is part of a number of buildings forming an impressive ecclesiastical complex set around a central courtyard. Works focus principally on masonry repairs to the church tower including restoration of the stone finials. The church is open daily and interpretation is available via leaflets, the church website and notice boards. St Mary's will also fund the preparation of a DVD detailing the project's conservation work.
The purpose of the Repair Grants for Places of Worship scheme is to fund emergency high level repairs to listed places of worship to ensure that they are wind and watertight. The scheme is run in partnership with Historic Scotland.
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