# Heritage Lottery Fund NI targets specific areas for funding

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/25/hlf-ni-targets-specific-areas-funding/
- Published: 2017-04-25T10:49:10+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Heritage Lottery Fund in Northern Ireland (HLF) has identified particular 
areas which it has listed as a priority for funding. ****The areas are Fermanagh
and Omagh, and Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon.**

 

HLF has also provided a list of deadlines for two of its key grants programmes for
2017.

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For Heritage Grants or Heritage Enterprise applications under £2 million first-round
application and all supporting documents must be received by:

 

·         **19 June 2017** for a decision in September 2017

 

·         **4 September 2017** for a decision in December 2017

 

Meetings to decide on grant requests between £100,000 and £2 million, second-round
submissions under Townscape Heritage and Landscape Partnerships, and first-round
applications under the Grants for Places of Worship programme will take place on:

 

·         20 June 2017

 

·         20 September 2017

 

·         5 December 2017

 

Meanwhile, [HLF in Northern Ireland](http://www.hlf.org.uk/northernireland) last
week announced a grant of nearly £5 million for Hillsborough Castle and its historic
gardens which is owned by Historic Royal Palaces.

 

 

 

> NEWS: [#HillsboroughCastle](https://twitter.com/hashtag/HillsboroughCastle?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)&
> Gardens awarded £5m grant to restore site & welcome 200,000 visitors a year [https://t.co/K3BqgO9p1m](https://t.co/K3BqgO9p1m)
> [@HRP_palaces](https://twitter.com/HRP_palaces?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/ORgmNlcXp6](https://t.co/ORgmNlcXp6)
> — The National Lottery Heritage Fund NI (@HeritageFundNI) [April 21, 2017](https://twitter.com/HeritageFundNI/status/855317428653490176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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