Heritage Lottery Fund: Parks for People
Archived
Active citizenship
Adult Education/Learning
Arts, culture and heritage
Built heritage
Community and neighbourhood development
Community development
Cultural heritage
Education and learning
environment
Natural environment and climate
Sport and physical recreation
Urban development
volunteering
Antrim & Newtownabbey
Ards & North Down
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon
Belfast City
Causeway Coast and Glens
Derry City and Strabane
England
Fermanagh and Omagh
Great Britain
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Mid and East Antrim
Mid Ulster
Newry, Mourne and Down
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Large (over £60,000)
Overview
Parks for People funding helps to conserve the heritage that makes both historic parks and cemeteries special. And it gives local people a say in how they are managed in the future. Projects improve people’s wellbeing and knowledge of their area, and make communities better places to live, work and visit.
The difference they want to make
Parks for people projects need to contribute towards the ten outcomes listed below.
Outcomes for heritage:
With their investment, heritage will be:
- Better managed
- In better condition
- Better interpreted and explained
- Identified/recorded.
Outcomes for people:
With their investment, people will have:
- Developed skills
- Learnt about heritage
- Volunteered time.
Outcomes for communities:
With their investment:
- Your local area/community will be a better place to live, work or visit
- Environmental impacts will be reduced
- More people and a wider range of people will have engaged with heritage.
What is heritage in terms of parks?
The heritage of a park or cemetery includes many diferent things from the past that we value and want to pass on to future generations, for example:
- The landscape design layout
- Surviving or lost historic features or buildings;
- Natural heritage including priority habitats and species
- Archaeological sites, earthworks or features from an earlier phase of design
- Collections of plants, trees, objects or documents
- Cultural traditions such as stories, estivals, fairs and crafts
- People’s memories and experiences of the park or cemetery
- The history associated with individual features such as memorials or veteran trees.