The National Lottery Heritage Fund

The Dean Heritage Centre has received £164,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for their “Investing in the Past, Present and Future” project. Made possible thanks to National Lottery players, the project aims to transform the Museum, visitor facilities and surrounding landscape to engage a wider range of audiences, preserve the heritage of the Forest of Dean and make the Centre sustainable in the long term. 

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The collection at the Dean Heritage Centre is the only one that tells the story of the Forest of Dean and without this funding from the Heritage Fund it could be lost forever. ​

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​In the long-term, the project will build the foundations for a major redevelopment project at the Dean Heritage Centre.  ​Mark George, Centre Manager at the Dean Heritage Centre said: “We are very excited to have received this support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players we can now develop our plans to transform the museum to engage a wider range of people, preserve the Forest’s heritage and become sustainable well into the future”. ​​