Series details: CRDA/67

The Local Heritage Initiative (LHI) was a small grants programme (£3,000 to £25,000) launched in 2000 to help communities bring their local heritage to life. It was administered by the Countryside Agency and funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) with additional sponsorship from Nationwide Building Society. LHI awarded funds in excess of £23 million to more than 1,400 community projects. It provided advice and support to the projects and collected the records and stories from the projects in an archive based around the LHI website.

NDAD holds a dataset derived from the project directory section of the website which contains information about each project including its name, contact details, a description and details of the grant awarded. In addition, NDAD holds supporting images, documents and multimedia files for many of the LHI projects.

• Administrative history for Countryside Agencies
• Dataset documentation catalogue

• 2006 snapshot