Organisation - Heritage Lottery Fund

Address: 7 Holbein Place, London, SW1W 8NR

Telephone: 020 7591 6000

Organisation's website www.hlf.org.uk

Description / history

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) was set up by Parliament in 1994 to give grants to a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom.
We distribute a share of the money raised by the National Lottery for Good Causes.
We are officially known as a 'non-departmental public body'. This means that, although we are not a government department, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport issues financial directions to us and we report to Parliament through the department. Our decisions about individual applications and policies are entirely independent.

HLF is administered by the Trustees of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) which allocates around £10 million per annum to our national heritage, acting as a fund of 'last resort'.