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📍Lives in The North. 💼 Head of Engagement, North @ The National Lottery Heritage Fund. ❤️Likes Bowie, Gin, Museums, Heritage, Culture, Nail Polish & PokemonGO. Unapologetically Gen X. 👉Follows/reposts not endorsements. 📝Views & skeets very much mine.
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Excellent use of an archive - top marks @heritagequay.bsky.social 👏👏

📢 Community Grant Round 3: Spring 2025, Now Open! The grants are open to any applicant based in any one of the four UK home nations. For more information click the link to find out more: tinyurl.com/3pzmfnb2. Big thanks to the generous support of #HeritageFundUK

Thanks to #NationalLottery players @uclan.ac.uk have received support from #HeritageFundUK to raise awareness of the #Curlew bird and protect its habitat in East #Lancashire. Learn more about the project led by William Titley 👇 www.uclan.ac.uk/news/nhlf-cu...

English Heritage's Living Barracks project in Berwick has received a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund

“Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players we will be working with the community to capture and celebrate Knowsley’s lost agricultural heritage, and to revitalise the area’s rich food and farming traditions... (1/3)

Writers in Residence Announced! Meet the three young writers who will be immersing themselves in Elizabeth’s world as part of a #HeritageFund project @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social marking 10 years of the restoration of the House elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/writers-in-r...

Please do join #HeritageFund Engagement Team in April to find out more about what a #Natural #Heritage project could look like. Full details below 👇

Happy Pokemon Day to all who celebrate #Pokemon #PokemonDay

Popped along to my local museum in #Bolton to see the Neon Creations exhibition. Fantastic to learn more about neon art & we learnt that it’s an endangered craft. Also, congrats to the museum for being named Best free Museum in the UK www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

🚨 TOMORROW 🚨 Don't throw it away! FIX IT! Bring your broken items and our team will help you fix it for FREE! 22nd February 10am-12pm Scarborough Market Hall & Vaults Mezzanine floor (Lift available) YO11 1EU Made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund

This weekend is the 21st Anniversary since a group of enthusiasts visited the Danny and saved her before she was to be towed away for scrapping, The rest is History. The Danny - raising smiles and creating memories. @heritagelizzie.bsky.social @lsutherland.bsky.social @andrewcooper.net

Popped along to my local museum in #Bolton to see the Neon Creations exhibition. Fantastic to learn more about neon art & we learnt that it’s an endangered craft. Also, congrats to the museum for being named Best free Museum in the UK www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

I'm a Trustee for Create Sheffield and really looking forward to this free event on 13 March - do share with anyone who is involved in culture and creativity for children and young people in the city.

⭐️ Hugely welcome funding news for museums, libraries and arts organisations in communities everywhere. ⬇️ Get the details below, ahead of Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy's speech this afternoon, marking 60 years since #JennieLee’s transformative White Paper on the arts. buff.ly/41mrndn

This is a great role - please take a look and circulate!

We still have availability for our session at #TheLinenHall in #Belfast next week (26/02)to introduce the new Towards Digital Collections training resources, as well as offering an opportunity for broader discussion around learning in the sector. Details here - bit.ly/TDC_Belfast #MuseumEd #GLAM

🌟 Join us as a Research Associate in Heritage Collections! Be a key part of Transatlantic Slave Trade research, collaborate with community groups, and support curators. Apply by Tuesday, 1 April. We'd love to hear from you! 🔗 Job details & apply: bit.ly/4b2NmJT

Please do join #HeritageFund Engagement Team in April to find out more about what a #Natural #Heritage project could look like. Full details below 👇

Today, a #HeritageFund colleague and I had the opportunity to meet with the senior team @victoriagallery.bsky.social to hear about ambitions & future plans for their communities & collections. We were also treated to a tour of their impressive spaces, more to reopen later this year.

FIRNS is currently open for applications. A launch webinar will be held on Monday 17th of February 2025. @naturescot.bsky.social and Heritage Fund supported. www.nature.scot/funding-and-...

Ta-daaa! My new display has been installed and visitors could see it from this morning at Bradford Industrial Museum @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social. A celebration of the iconic Fountains Cafe, #Bradford. Really proud of this display, preserving and showcasing a slice of Bradford. ⛲️ ☕️ 🍽

PLEASE SHARE! I am looking for an Associate PR Manager to join the EU Pokémon PR team. Role will focus on our Pokémon Centre products, Animation slate and all our great licensing collabs. All information can be found here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/pokemoncaree...

'Into the Light: Pioneers of Black British Ballet' exhibition has arrived at the Creative SmartCityHub at Washington Library, part of #SunderlandLibraries. This National Lottery Heritage Fund project is a partnership between us and Oxygen Arts. www.librariesconnected.org.uk/projects/bla...

Calling all Lottery players ... Come out to play with us to welcome the start of Spring! Our Spring Nature Walk and Social on Saturday 15 March 2025 is a special thank you event for all those who play the Lottery. Book via www.yorkbikebelles.community today! #TakeTheGreenRoute #SpringWalkAndSocial

Join us in Teesdale planting native tree & hedge plants on Mon 10, Fri 21 & Wed 26 February, Tue 4 & Thu 20 March. Volunteers are welcome to join for all or part of the day. More info/sign-up: https://bit.ly/hedgetreeplanting Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. #NorthPennines

First visit to Cusworth Hall, Doncaster yesterday. Beautiful house & gardens. Good to meet the team who shared ongoing impacts of #HeritageFund investments from 2006 onwards. @mydoncaster.bsky.social @hjfeathers.bsky.social

📢Chester Cathedral has been awarded funds by #HeritageFund to undertake 'Project Revive' – the first stage in the revitalisation of 30 St Werburgh Street, made possible thanks to money raised by #NationalLottery players. Read more: chestercathedral.com/news/national-…

Calling community groups! Join us next week for the upcoming CS-CA Skills Session on Cataloguing! A big thank you to The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the players for making this possible. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-stories-community-archives-skills-sessions-catalo…

🚨We're hiring🚨 We've got two new roles to join our team: ⭐Operations Lead ⭐Co-ordinator - Climate Change and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion esmeefairbairn.org.uk/about-esmee/...

Over the last 6 months, we’ve transformed an 1851 surface tunnel into an accessible ‘Time Tunnel’ time machine… It includes carefully crafted scenics, digital characters, immersive AV, digital special effects, original objects & our amazing mine guides. More info: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looking forward to #Bradford Literature Festival 2025 @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social. 📚🗣 'Bradford Literature Festival will run from June 27 to July 6' - @bradfordtanda.bsky.social www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2490941...

📢 Thanks to #HeritageFund Northern Roots is recruiting a Learning Manager. Want to build partnerships with a broad range of education providers, design & deliver a creative programme of curriculum linked visits, placements & sessions? Deadline Sun 2 March northern-roots.uk/opportunitie...

📢 @sportingheritage.bsky.social Sporting Heritage Community Grant Round 3: Spring 2025, Now Open! The grants are open to any applicant based in any one of the four UK home nations. For more information click the link to find out more: tinyurl.com/3pzmfnb2 Supported by #HeritageFund

📢Thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Co-operative Heritage Trust are recruiting! Do you want to be a project archivist at Holyoake House in Manchester to catalogue the Co-operative College collection. For more information 👉 ow.ly/BfeR50UMyVZ Apply by 5pm Fri 7th Feb 2025

Coming up this week in #Barrow. Book a slot & talk to #HeritageFund engagement colleagues about your #Heritage project ideas. Full details below @samplum1.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @wcmbarrow.bsky.social pls share where possible

I was told it was National Yorkshire Pudding Day – yes, really – and I thought why not start early and have it for breakfast. So #RecipeOfTheDay is Dutch Baby! Can also heartily recommend a topping of clotted cream and golden syrup www.nigella.com/recipes/dutc...

#HeritageFund believes in wetlands. Here’s one of our largest ever investments in wetlands for #WorldWetlandsDay - Peatland Progress at The Great Fen www.greatfen.org.uk/peatland-pro...

📢 Thanks to #HeritageFund Northern Roots is recruiting a Learning Manager. Want to build partnerships with a broad range of education providers, design & deliver a creative programme of curriculum linked visits, placements & sessions? Deadline Sun 2 March northern-roots.uk/opportunitie...

📢 @sportingheritage.bsky.social Sporting Heritage Community Grant Round 3: Spring 2025, Now Open! The grants are open to any applicant based in any one of the four UK home nations. For more information click the link to find out more: tinyurl.com/3pzmfnb2 Supported by #HeritageFund

@lsutherland.bsky.social Here's 1 of 103 new names added to Keighley's #WW1 roll of honour in Nov last year. Luther McKechnie was 1 of 4 men killed, sheltering in a trench behind their gun. Two of these men were father and son! Visit Luther's page to find out: www.menofworth.org.uk/cross-roads/...

Still time to apply for the 2 year project archivist position on the Seeds of Change to catalogue the Co-operative College collection at the Co-op Archive in Mancheser. Made possible with a #HeritageFund award thanks to #NationalLottery players. www.co-operativeheritage.coop/jobs-and-vol...

Are you around Barrow-in-Furness with a heritage project idea? 📢 Our #HeritageFund engagement team will be at the Cumbria CVS Barrow Funding Fair, The Forum, Tuesday 4 February. Book your slots: 10am-12pm 👉 crm.cumbriacvs.org.uk/civicrm/event/… 1pm-3pm �� crm.cumbriacvs.org.uk/civicrm/event/�/…

Great website from 509 Arts in Bradford about lost mills and ghost mansions - images, radio programmes and more! #HeritageFund #Bradford #Heritage www.509arts.co.uk/project/lost...

New on the blog - an interview with Katherine McAlpine the Director of @brunelmuseum.bsky.social on the challenges of being in charge of a small independent museum tinctureofmuseum.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/w...