In June we announced that we had been awarded a grant of £192,697 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. We are delighted to be able to tell you about the progress we have made in our heritage project over the last two months.
We have engaged a wide range of people including architects, designers programme and events managers and people to research local stories. They all love the idea that they are helping us to create a special place in Northumberland Hall in the heart of the Alnwick community.
We are in what is described as a development stage for the work with Northumberland Hall, which means that we are gathering further information about the building, its current condition, running costs and developing detailed proposals to apply for a full National Lottery grant for what we would do to turn this wonderful building into a creative community and heritage hub. We are also working on a more detailed business plan to sit alongside the early business case we presented to NCC officers. When this work is complete it will give us what we need to make a bid for funds to develop the work and to present a more detailed and well costed plan for Northumberland County Council. Once the bid is submitted, it will take several months before we know whether our funding bid to the Heritage Fund will succeed in awarding us a grant to make this ambitious community venture a reality.
In the meantime we will be using the former Tourist Information Centre unit under Northumberland Hall to run community engagement events and to provide a ‘drop-in centre’ for the people of Alnwick to tell us their stories, help to shape the success of the Northumberland Hall project and create future events.
We would love you to be with us on each step of our journey. Please join in the events we are launching and let us have your ideas and stories of Alnwick
For the latest updates on the People Make Alnwick project. supported by The National Lottery Community Fund just follow the link.
About The National Lottery Heritage Fund
As the largest dedicated funder of the UK’s heritage, The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future as set out in our strategic plan, Heritage 2033.
Over the next ten years, we aim to invest £3.6billion raised for good causes by National Lottery players to bring about benefits for people, places and the natural environment.
We help protect, transform and share the things from the past that people care about, from popular museums and historic places, our natural environment and fragile species, to the languages and cultural traditions that celebrate who we are.
