Marine park, peatlands and slavery museum receive share of £50m funding

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The UK’s first marine park, along with Liverpool’s International Slavery museum, a project to preserve the Cairngorms landscape and an experiment into so-called “wet farming” are among five schemes to receive a share of £50m funding. The grants have been awarded as part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Heritage Horizon Awards to three environmental projects and two heritage schemes in total. “All five share qualities of huge ambition, significant collaboration and the prospect of life-changing benefits for people and places deserving of support from the National Lottery.” Culture minister Caroline Dinenage called the projects “ambition” and “exciting,” saying: “These hugely ambitious, exciting projects are not only protecting and preserving vital local heritage, but are also creating jobs, supporting local communities and helping us to build back better from the pandemic.” The projects which will receive the awards are: Cairngorms 2030 which is a scheme attempting to tackle the climate and nature crises in the UK’s largest national park which can be found located in the Scottish Highlands. The Great Yarmouth Winter Gardens will also receive a grant to help preserve and repair the country’s only surviving seaside cast iron and glass winter gardens.