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Lottery funding secured for Edinburgh's Royal High School transformation
Edinburgh Evening News
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13/01/2025
The Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT) has announced a significant funding package potentially worth £5 million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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So we at the National Lottery Heritage Fund have awarded funding to the Royal High School
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Preservation Trust because it's vitally important to secure this historic building for the future.
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This National Lottery Heritage Fund award for us is unbelievable. It's such a validation
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of the project we have here at the old Royal High School, which has been a building hidden
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in plain sight for so long, 50 years, and now here we are being able to wake it up and
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this award helps us do that. Historically it's been a place of learning and inspiration
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sending young people out into the world and we really hope that this project will do that
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same thing again. The grant will also allow us to connect more deeply with communities
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around the building, so in Edinburgh but also the communities across Scotland that we want
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to engage with in terms of musical identity and so we'll get to understand how people
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want to use the building, what they care about here, the stories they want to learn about
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in terms of its heritage and history. Next steps we move on to the real construction
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development phase that starts this summer and it's all go from there. We've got a real
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sense of momentum at the moment and we know that if we're successful in the next stage
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of this Heritage Lottery Fund application we'll be at 90% of our funding target, which
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really means we can taste the end point and we're getting closer to opening the doors.
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The other thing that's significant for us with this award is that having this public
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support means we've got a new sense of energy, a new commitment and a new desire to make
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sure we really represent the full breadth of music making happening in Scotland. We
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can't thank the Lottery Fund enough, we're so grateful, it really means we move ahead
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at pace to develop the National Centre for Music.
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