Heritage Lottery Success!

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Mill Manager, Jim Bailey with the Heritage Lottery Bid
Heckington Windmill Trust are very pleased to announce the award of  a £990,200 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant. 

Heckington Windmill Trust Chairman, Charles Pinchbeck is naturally delighted. He said “This grant truly recognises the significance of Heckington’s Windmill. It is a huge vote of confidence in the commitment and hard work that has been put in, not just by the members but by the project’s many supporters - Lincolnshire County Council, North Kesteven District Council, Heckington Parish Council, the Charles Haywood Foundation, Bicker Trust, local businesses and the many individuals who have played a part in our success”.

The grant, which is subject to finalising the terms for the acquisition of the building and yard, will enable Heckington Windmill Trust to restore the wider mill site and create a world class visitor attraction around the mill and its Victorian industrial complex. 

Plans for redeveloping the site include:
  • Creating a new visitor centre in the granary
  • Moving the shop into the granary 
  • Reinstating mill stones onto the ground floor of the mill 
  • Providing a full history of the heritage of the site via new interpretation & displays
  • Restoring the historic buildings and the setting of the mill
  • Providing disabled access to the mill
  • Reinstating the old bakehouse
  • Providing better car parking & toilet facilities

Read the full press release here


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News from the Project Board

The Project Board

Are the team of people who have put together the Heritage Lottery Bid.  They are:
Charles Pinchbeck
Jim Bailey
Jo Lewin
Liz Bates
Sheila Channing
Liz Desmond
Katie Green
Michael Surfleet
Daniel Chard
Mike Harding
George Bell
Penny Ward
Luke Bonwick
Contact Jo Lewin for all queries

Redevelopment of the site

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The mill buildings that will be included in the redevelopment
The plan to buy the mill buildings and redevelop them it is not a new one. 
The first draft scheme was proposed about 15 years ago.

These original ideas have been developed and extended and brought together in the current Heckington Windmill Regeneration Project.

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