Schedule of Decisions Under Delegated Powers to Head of HLF South West on 10 January 2018

Heritage Lottery Fund Schedule of Decisions under delegated powers to Deputy Director of Operations on 3rd January 2018

Sharing Heritage Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision

A solicited bid to enable HLF to support the first Cornwall Heritage Awards, celebrating achievement for museums and heritage in Cornwall Museums Award Grant of 1. Cornwall Heritage Awards Cornwall. These will raise the profile of Partnership £10,000 (52%) museums, and share good practice, develop skills and broaden learning.

Heritage Lottery Fund Schedule of Decisions under delegated powers to Head of HLF South West on 10 January 2018

Our Heritage Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision

Urgent repairs to allow The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Westcote has worship and community applied for a grant of £58,300 (48%) to carry out Church of St Mary the 1. Reject events to begin again in our essential repair and conservation work to the roof Virgin, Westcote church of the Grade II listed church.

Paddleboat Theatre CIC has applied for a grant Using Theatre to explore of £39,600 (50%) towards a two year project to local WWII heritage and explore and celebrate the life of the war journalist Paddleboat Theatre Award Grant of 2. celebrating Clare Claire Hollingsworth and Devon’s wider WWII CIC £39,600 (50%) Hollingsworth’s life with history through a series of school and community Devon Schools engagement activities , culminating in a performance.

Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision

The Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis, has applied Films with schools exploring for a grant of £18,600 (100%) towards the historic/contemporary change production of a film to document the changing 3. along Jurassic Coast, its landscapes and geology along the Jurassic The Woodroffe School Reject geology, landscape and Coast, working with students from across the community Lyme Bay area to record the proposed coastal defence project.

Shaftesbury Abbey Museum and Garden have applied for a grant of £42,900 (50%) to investigate the remains of Shaftesbury Abbey Saved – Shaftesbury Abbey: through historical research, geophysical surveys Shaftesbury Abbey Award Grant of 4. a Voyage of Exploration and and archaeological excavation, engaging Museum and Garden £42,900 (50%) Discovery volunteers, schools and the local community. New museum learning resources and interpretation will be produced, and improvements made to museum accessibility.

East Somerset Railway has applied for a grant of £46,500 (71%) towards a project to reinstate part of the “down” platform at Cranmore Station through creation of an education and Cranmore Station Heritage West Somerset Award Grant of 5. interpretation centre. The project will also Project Railway £46,500 (71%) employ a part time volunteer education officer, train new volunteers in oral history collecting and interpretation and deliver a range of public engagement activities.

Roof repairs and community St Giles Church, Bradford on Tone, has applied St Giles Church, 6. Reject engagement for a grant of £36,300 (29%) to undertake repair Bradford on Tone and conservation works to the Grade II* listed

Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision

church, including repointing and replacement of rainwater goods.

Fluid Motion Theatre Company has applied for a grant of £50,500 (97%) towards a project focusing on the history of mental health, using collections from The Lightbox in Woking and Fluid Motion Theatre 7. Opening the Asylum Reject Glenside Hospital Museum in Bristol to interpret Company Victorian Asylums and engage up to 900 young people with the collections through workshops, performances and exhibitions.

Exeter Phoenix has applied for a grant of £24,300 (75%) towards a 6 month project to Recording oral histories of record an oral history of Exeter’s lost cinema and Award Grant of 8. Exeter’s cinema heritage and film landscape through the creation of a series of Exeter Phoenix £24,300 (75%) cultural landscape short documentary oral history films, workshops for young people and a programme of classic films.

St Mary’s Church, Almondsbury has applied for a grant of £65,000 (66%) to repair and rehang their peel of 8 historic bells within the Grade I listed Almondsbury Bells St Mary’s Church, 9. church and make improvements to the ringing Reject Restoration Project Almondsbury chamber to encourage the tradition of bell ringing in the community, together with a programme of interpretation.

Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision

Sodbury Town Council has applied for a grant of £24,900 (63%) towards a 4 month project to Sodbury 800: Chipping celebrate the 800th anniversary of Chipping 10. Sodbury celebrates granting Sodbury Town Council Reject Sodbury through a 2-day medieval festival and of Market Charter 1218-2018 associated walks, talks, concerts and school workshops.

Torre Abbey has applied for a grant of £16,500 Researching local Tattoo (70%) towards a project to engage people with culture working with local the touring exhibition “Tattoo: British Tattoo Art Award Grant of 11. Torre Abbey tattoo community and fishing Revealed” through gathering stories and images £16,500 (70%) community from local people, creating an online archive and holding a series of tattoo and bodyart workshops.

Sharing Heritage Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision

Bawdrip Parish Council has applied for a grant of A trail through Bawdrip. £7,600 (85%) towards a project to engage people Discover the past, creating in the local history of Bawdrip through creation of a Award Grant of 1. Bawdrip Parish Council footprints for others to local trail, interpretation boards, and a programme £7,600 (85%) follow of workshops, talks, walks and a leaflet and digital interpretation.

b-side CIC has applied for a grant of £10,000 (80%) towards a project to explore the historic Award Grant of 2. Portland Pathways origins of public rights of way and footpaths on b-side CIC £10,000 (80%) Portland through a programme of visits, events, walks, interpretation and a publication and artwork

Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision

NHS Retirement and Fellowship is seeking a grant of £10,000 (100%) towards a project to NHS Retirement Fellowship commemorate the 70th anniversary of the NHS NHS Retirement and Award Grant of 3. 70/40 Heritage Project through a programme of exhibitions and events Fellowship £10,000 (100%) across England, Wales and Scotland, and creation of a leaflet and DVD.

Conservation / restoration St Peter’s Church, Dumbleton has applied for a of a hatchment and two grant of £3,000 (26%) towards the conservation St Peter’s Church 4. Reject bequest boards from the and restoration of a hatchment and two bequest Dumbleton 18th century boards from the eighteenth century.

The Pilsdon Community has applied for a grant of £10,000 (91%) to celebrate its 60th anniversary A Place of Shelter: an oral through recording and sharing the social history of The Pilsdon Award Grant of 5. history of the Pilsdon the community, gathering oral histories, creating a Community £10,000 (91%) Community 1958-2018 permanent memory shed, and a travelling exhibition, website and booklet.

Brixham Pirate Festival is seeking a grant of Brixham harbour pirate £10,000 (36%) towards the annual Brixham Pirate 6. themed maritime heritage Brixham Pirate Festival Reject Festival to engage the public with the maritime free family festival heritage of Brixham.

First World War Item Project Title and Ref. Project Description Applicant Decision number

The Holst Birthplace Trust is seeking a grant of Award Grant of 1. Gustav Holst in Salonica £10,000 (74%) towards an 11 month project to Holst Birthplace Trust £10,000 (74%) explore Gustav Holst’s involvement with the Macedonian Front at the end of the First World

Item Project Title and Ref. Project Description Applicant Decision number

War, and share this research through an exhibition and associated programme of events supported by volunteers.

Redmarley Primary Academy is seeking a grant of £10,000 (83%) towards a one year project to enable pupils from two schools to work with arts and heritage specialists to research and create The Fifth Gloucestershire Redmarley Primary Award Grant of 2. material for a centenary edition of the Fifth Centenary Gazette Academy £10,000 (83%) Gloucester Gazette – a trench newspaper written and produced by men serving in the Fifth Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in France and Belgium during the First World War.

Dunkirk Memorial House (The Royal British Commemorative Event – Legion) is seeking a grant of £7,300 (100%) Dunkirk Memorial 3. to celebrate the ending of towards a one year project, culminating in a House – The Royal Reject World War 1 centenary event to remember and commemorate British Legion the end of the First World War.

Wimborne Community Theatre are seeking a grant Voices from 1918: first of £10,000 (100%) towards a 12 month project to hand accounts of the last carry out research and present the voices of Wimborne Community Award Grant of 4, year of the war and Dorset based men and women from 1918 in a Theatre £10,000 (100%) Armistice digital diary format across a variety of digital formats, including apps and social media.

Bridport Museum Trust Ltd has applied for a grant Challenging expectations: of £7,900 (80%) towards an 11 month project to Bridport Museum Trust Award Grant of 5. how does a small Dorset undertake a range of activities exploring life in the Ltd £7,900 (80%) town fare during war time? town during the First World War, linking with the anniversary of Women’s Suffrage through an

Item Project Title and Ref. Project Description Applicant Decision number

exhibition and accompanying programme of activities, events and the annual Ropewalk Fair.

Otterford Parish Council has applied for a grant of £3,400 (81%) towards a project to research the Bringing Alive Otterford in lives of the ten men shown on the First World Otterford Parish Award Grant of 6. World War 1 War parish memorial, and share these findings Council £3,400 (81%) through community events, online interpretation and a booklet.

Resilient Heritage Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision

The Alex Moulton Charitable Trust has applied for The Hall Estate: Creating a a grant of £44,200 (56%) towards a range of legacy for British business planning, audience development and The Alex Moulton Award Grant of 1. engineering, design and governance reviews with the aim of finding a Charitable Trust £44,200 (56%) innovation viable future for the Alex Moulton Estate in Bradford on Avon.

Porthleven Town Council has requested a grant of £20,700 (81%) towards a project to develop their Porthleven Bickford-Smith understanding of the Grade II Bickford – Smith Institute Restoration: Institute through producing a feasibility study for Porthleven Town Award Grant of 2. Scoping and Feasibility the future of the building, as well as structural, Council £20,700 (81%) Stage heritage and access surveys, restoration and operating cost estimates, and capacity building and governance training.

Grants for Places of Worship Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision

The Church of St Peter and St James Halwill is seeking a grant of £187,100 (74%) towards urgent Urgent Repairs to the repairs to the Grade II* listed church, including Church of St Peter and Award Grant of 1. Church of St Peter and St repair work to the tower and installation of new St James, Halwill £187,100 (74%) James Halwill drainage. The project will also create new interpretation materials and deliver a programme of talks and community events.

Westbury on Severn PCC have applied for a grant of £250,000 (71%) towards urgent repairs to the Church of St Mary, St Paul Grade I listed tower and spire of St Mary, SS Paul Westbury on Severn Award Grant of 2. and St Paul, Westbury on Church in Westbury on Severn. As well as re- PCC £250,000 (75%) Severn, Glos, GL14 1PS shingling the tower and spire, the project will also deliver a programme of open days, guided tours, displays and a schools project.