NLHF lays a modern approach to grant funding

11th February 2022

National Lottery Heritage Fund lays groundwork for a modern approach to grant funding with Civica’s investment management system

The National Lottery Heritage Fund is the largest dedicated grant funder of the UK’s heritage. Since 1994, the Fund has awarded over £8 billion to more than 44,000 projects across the UK. The funds aim was to replace legacy system and update with the new one to support them in decision-making process and help achieve funding framework goals.

Read the case study to discover how Civica’s cloud-based investment management system has helped the Fund to overcome challenges including aging technology, inflexible business flows, and limited ability to interrogate the data about the projects in which it invests.

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Key outcomes:

4.6m rows of data in GEMS system

1.7m documents analysed for migration

60 project days

Tom Walters,

Head of Research, Data and Insight,

National Lottery Heritage Fund

The data discovery exercise is a value-for-money engagement that’s helped us really understand the bigger picture in terms of our data. We’re delighted with the outcome.