Youngsters guarding the Fort
Our Funding

We have just received The Heritage Lottery Funding towards our Education Programme



Heritage Lottery FundingThe Amherst Heritage Centre are pleased to announce that they have been awarded a grant worth £50,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The Grant will enable the Amherst Heritage Centre to employ a further three people to help co-ordinate it's education programme for schools and youth groups.

The centre said

"The Grant from the Heritage Lottery fund has enabled us to concentrate on our core values and to enable school visits to Fort Amherst"

The Amherst Heritage Centre had a busy 2007 with many local and national schools visiting the historic fortress. The funding has now come to a end but the Amherst Heritage Centre is still open for schools to visit all year round. The Heritage Lottery funding enabled us to promote ourselfs to schools across the county and vitial investment in educational tools and resources.

 

 




Amherst Heritage Centre, Fort Amherst, Dock Road, Chatham, Kent. ME4 4UB.
Telephone: 0870 777 7615    Email: info@amherstheritagecentre.co.uk