National Lottery Heritage Fund
Remembering Jacob Rothschild, banker, collector, philanthropist, and a towering figure in the British art world
A scion of the famous banking dynasty, he led the National Gallery, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Waddesdon Manor
Shake-up announced for the UK’s £300m National Lottery Heritage Fund
New builds—inspired by the so-called ‘Bilbao effect’—will now be discouraged as the chair of the organisation, Simon Thurley, outlines a change of priorities in favour of long-term benefits
Gifted to the English city 80 years ago, Coventry's medieval Charterhouse will finally open to the public
After a £4.3m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant and years of restoration, the historic priory is set to open this summer
Shutdown tests mettle of UK's last major bell foundry
Taylor’s in Loughborough faces uphill struggle in fundraising drive to restore decaying buildings and create new museum
Victorians in pictures: British Film Institute digitises archive of over 500 early silent films
Conservation experts carefully cleaned the fragile and flammable nitrate film so each frame could be individually scanned
V&A reapplies after lottery funding setback
Bid for Exhbition Road extension and underground gallery rejected
Tate Modern extension snubbed by Lottery Fund
The request was rejected as a 'low priority', with concerns about 'deliverability'
V&A steams ahead in fundraising for new galleries
Money comes in, openings on course
Tate and Scottish National Gallery in talks to acquire d’Offay collection
Legendary dealer is thought to own 700 works worth £100m
Three times lucky in Lottery funding as all applications awarded funds
The V&A, Museum of London, and National Museums of Scotland all get grants
Will Reynolds’ Archers stay in the UK? A look at Tate's fundraising efforts and the effects of the Waverley Criteria
Tate needs over £2 million to buy the £3.2m painting from an overseas buyer
The National Gallery purchases Raphael’s Madonna of the pinks: What we know
The Raphael was bought by the National Gallery for £22 million in February 2004
V&A drops Libeskind extension
£15 million Heritage Lottery Fund rejected
Libeskind extension turned down by Heritage Lottery Fund
The Victoria and Albert Museum is now likely to drop the £70 million project
V&A’s spiralling lottery hopes
£15 million bid submitted for 'Spiral' extension
National Trust's total cost of saving Tyntesfield may be £50 million
The Trust is applying for a further £20 million grant to set up an endowment
Tate director, Nicholas Serota: Recent art is patrimony too
Serota discusses export laws and what is truly significant to public collections
Beuys multiples acquired by National Galleries of Scotland
This important addition to Scottish collections includes nearly all of his best multiples
Tate forms partnerships with regional venues across Britain
An effort to increase the public's exposure to the National Collection
Two mega-donations for London museum expansions
With £20 million each, plans progress for the British Museum Great Court and the V&A's spiral
V&A British Galleries delay
£12 million required to complete refurbishment project.
From the archive | When Jacob Rothschild spoke out about the challenges of running the Heritage Lottery Fund
Rothschild retired as the first chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund at the end of March 1998. In a rare interview, he described its relationship with government
The aspirations of Chris Smith, new Labour Secretary of State for National Heritage
Smith hopes for Britain to rejoin UNESCO, aiming divert Lottery funds to health and education
Lottery winners and losers. £150 million to make Britain’s museums and galleries into world leaders
But Victoria and Albert Museum’s £23m British Galleries project sent back to the drawing board
Important eighteenth-century and contemporary additions to Tate’s holdings
The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton
The Westminster Retable: technically daring and now in danger
£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece
Chastleton goes into National Trust ownership
Jacobean Oxfordshire house purchased for £2 million