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Kintore Town House. Credit - Action Kintore. 21 December 2023 Scotland Creating a Multi-use Community Facility for a Rapidly Growing Town The Broadway Cinema in Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland. Credit - Friends of the Broadway Prestwick. 19 December 2023 Scotland An Early Christmas Present! Funding Secured to Bring the Broadway Cinema into Community Ownership Beics Antur, Caernarfon, Wales. Credit - Antur Waunfawr 18 December 2023 UK AHF Publishes its 2020-23 Impact Report Bishop's Gate Hotel in Derry, Northern Ireland, which has been restored by Inner City Trust. Credit - Tony Monaghan. 12 December 2023 UK UK towns and cities get £5 million funding boost to help bring disused historic buildings back to life Image: The Market House, Penzance. 4 December 2023 England AHF Publishes the Final Report on its Transforming Places through Heritage Programme Autism Together staff and the people they support in front of the Giles Shirley Hall in Bromborough Pool Village, Wirral. Credit - Autism Together. 29 November 2023 England Adapting Listed Buildings to Provide More Support for Autistic People 21 November 2023 Northern Ireland Murphy’s on Main Street Opens to the Local Community Image: Alliance Bacup at the former Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, Bacup. Credit - Valley Heritage. 25 October 2023 UK AHF Invites Tenders for Communications/Media Support Liskeard Library. Photo courtesy of Real Ideas Organisation. 24 October 2023 England Turning Over a New Page – Liskeard Library Re-opens Following Renovation The Coastguard Flats, Looe. Photo courtesy of Three Seas. 19 October 2023 England AHF Grants Support for Community-owned Housing in Historic Buildings Image: Ballogie Soutar's Shop. Credit - Birse Community Trust. 18 October 2023 Scotland AHF Supports First Steps to Preserve a Remarkable ‘Time Capsule’ Balado Bridge Satcom Ground Station in Kinross, Scotland, soon to become a permanent venue for Aero Space Kinross. 3 October 2023 UK Success for Eight Additional AHF-supported Projects in the Latest Community Ownership Fund Round 28 September 2023 England AHF Loan Investment Helps to Secure the Future of Important Medieval Palace Complex Image: Lowestoft Town Hall. Photo courtesy of Lowestoft Town Council. 26 September 2023 England Fantastic News for Five AHF-supported Projects as National Lottery Heritage Fund Announces New Grant Awards The Turf Shed at Lissan House. Photo courtesy of Lissan House Trust. 21 September 2023 Northern Ireland Turf Shed to Form Fun, Flexible Space at Lissan House Photo courtesy of Drewsteignton Community Society Limited. 24 August 2023 England Bringing a Historic Village Pub into Community Ownership Image: Fife Employment Access Trust standing outside Silverburn Flax Mill. Photo courtesy of Fife Employment Access Trust. 22 August 2023 Scotland Silverburn Flax Mill Project Reaches Significant Milestone Image: Bargain Farmhouse in Nursling, Hampshire, England. Photo credit to Romsey and District Buildings Preservation Trust. 8 August 2023 UK Celebrating the Success of Building Preservation Trusts Image: The old Yorkshire Penny Bank in Bradford. 1 August 2023 England Celebrating Yorkshire Day with AHF-supported Projects in the UK City of Culture 2025 Image: Parkanaur Manor House in Dungannon, Northern Ireland. 27 July 2023 Northern Ireland Renewed Partnership with the Garfield Weston Foundation Unlocks Further Support for Projects in Northern Ireland Image: Co-working space inside the restored Sheerness Dockyard Church. Photo credit to Dirk Lindner. 20 July 2023 England Rescued from Ruin - Sheerness Dockyard Church Re-opens to the Public Following Completion of Restoration Project Image: St Conan's Kirk in Lochawe, Scotland. Photo courtesy of the Friends of St Conan's Kirk. 18 July 2023 UK Hitting the jackpot! AHF-supported Projects Secure Funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund Credit to Kintyre Amenity Trust. 11 July 2023 Scotland From ‘Tartan Kirk’ to Town Heritage: AHF supports developing plans for Campbeltown Heritage Centre Image: Alfred House in St Ann's, Nottingham, which has previously received early-stage support from the AHF. Photo courtesy of BACKLIT. 10 July 2023 England Further Support for Projects in England, Thanks to Renewed Partnership with the Pilgrim Trust 7 July 2023 Wales Breathing New Life and Creativity into a Disused Department Store Image: The key handover at John O'Groats Mill. Photo credit to John O'Groats Mill Trust. 6 July 2023 UK Community Ownership Fund Success for Eleven AHF-Supported Projects 4 July 2023 England New £6m Fund Partnership Set to Increase the Availability of Finance to Smaller Charities and Social Enterprises Image: The opening of 160 King Street, Great Yarmouth. Photo by Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust. 20 June 2023 UK AHF Invites Tenders for an External Evaluation Consultant for the Heritage Development Trusts Programme 8 June 2023 Scotland Kilmarnock Community Climbs to Historic Heights as Above Adventure Officially Opens for Business Image: Historic photograph of a Miners Rescue Team inside the North Wales Miners Rescue Station. 5 June 2023 Wales Welcome to Wrexham! Bringing a Former Miners Rescue Station Back to Life for Community Use Before and after images of the former Pat Murphy’s tea rooms and tobacconists in Ederney, Northern Ireland. 31 May 2023 UK AHF Publishes Heritage Transformed in Wales and Northern Ireland Report Credyd: Paul Alexander Knox 24 May 2023 UK Grymuso pobl a lleoedd - Hwb ariannol o £5 miliwn ar gyfer Ymddiriedolaethau Datblygu Treftadaeth newydd i adfywio adeiladau hanesyddol segur ar draws y DU Pop Recs, Sunderland, England. Photo courtesy of Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust. Credit: Paul Alexander Knox. 24 May 2023 UK Empowering people and places - £5 million funding boost for new Heritage Development Trusts to revive unused historic buildings across the UK 23 May 2023 UK London Festival of Architecture Event - Can community ownership of heritage assets help bring communities together? 22 May 2023 UK AHF Publishes New Five-Year Strategy for 2023-28 Proposed circus school at the former Cathedral School in Derry. Credit - John McCloskey. 15 May 2023 Northern Ireland Heritage Regeneration Projects in Derry Receive AHF Support 15 May 2023 UK Vacancy - Evaluation & Data Officer Image: The National School, Bushmills. 27 April 2023 Northern Ireland Nine NI Rural Villages Receive Village Catalyst Support Mr Quinn, the projectionist at The Vogue Cinema, Kilkeel. Photo courtesy of Kilkeel Charitable Trust. 20 April 2023 Northern Ireland The Reel Thing! Reviving the only listed Art Deco cinema in Northern Ireland Historic photograph of The Clocktower in Dufftown, Scotland. Photo courtesy of Dufftown and District Community Association. 18 April 2023 UK From Civic to Community Buildings: Helping to Renew the Heart of the Town The Former Margate Synagogue, which has previously received early-stage support from the AHF. Photo courtesy of Cliftonville Cultural Space. 14 April 2023 England New Grants Programme for Historic Building Projects in England Image: The Selsey Pavilion in Selsey, West Sussex, which has previously received early-stage support from the AHF. Photo courtesy of Selsey Pavilion Trust. 30 March 2023 England New Funding Available for Projects in England, Thanks to Partnership with Historic England 29 March 2023 Northern Ireland Riddel’s Warehouse Project Receives Funding Boost 28 March 2023 Scotland Training for the Future: A Sustainable New Use for the Former Offices of Historic Locomotive Works Image: The former Redruth Library. Photo courtesy of Redruth Former Library CIC. 21 March 2023 England Final Round of Grants Awarded through the Transforming Places through Heritage Programme Image: The Storws at night. Photo courtesy of the Bardsey Island Trust.  6 March 2023 Wales Dark Skies, Bright Future – How Heritage-Regeneration Projects in Wales are Encouraging Interest in the Night Sky 27 February 2023 Northern Ireland AHF Supports New Plans for the Chichester Club Building in Castledawson Image: Ellisland Farmhouse Museum in Auldgirth, Dumfries & Galloway, one of the projects supported by the AHF through the Tailored Support Fund. 22 February 2023 Scotland Extension of the William Grant Foundation Tailored Support Fund Image: Lychgate Cottages in Coventry, one of the projects included in the first edition of the AHF Newsletter. Photo courtesy of Historic Coventry Trust. 7 February 2023 UK AHF Launches Bi-monthly Newsletter Image: Baldovie House. Photo courtesy of The Circle. 24 January 2023 Scotland Full Circle - Bringing Baldovie House Back to Community, Training and Enterprise Use Image: Representatives from funders, the local council, MLAs, and community groups gather outside Chandler's House as the building is officially reopened. 18 January 2023 Northern Ireland Chandler's House Officially Reopens 18 January 2023 Wales New AHF Trustee for Wales