Successful grant application secures £250,000 to fund projects that safeguard and celebrate heritage

                                                                 

Cllr Dawkins: "It's fantastic!"

 HATS off to North East Lincolnshire Council for pulling in a grant of £250,000.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund is coughing up "to support a programme that will drive community-led heritage projects across Grimsby, Immingham, Cleethorpes and the Wolds".

The money will be divvied up among groups seeking to "celebrate the past and help shape the future".

A Community Engagement and Development Co-ordinator will now be recruited to lead the new programme. 

Beams NELC's portfolio holder for culture and heritage, Cllr Hayden Dawkins: "It is fantastic that the National Lottery Heritage Fund believes in the work we’re doing in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and beyond to preserve and showcase our past for future generations."

Other organisations to receive heritage funding are: 

* Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council

* Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street

* Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council 

* Medway Council 

* Stoke-on-Trent City Council

* Torbay Council

* English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark.