Project Development

• Hull City Council has committed £15m to the project
• The National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund awarded Hull City Council with £15m
• The Coastal Communities Fund has committed £50,000 for early work on Arctic Corsair
• The DCMS and Wolfson Foundation has awarded Hull Maritime Museum £150,000
• Arts Council England awarded Hull City Council with £88,113
• The John Ellerman Foundation awarded Hull City Council with £170,000 to conserve the museums' collection
• The Garfield Weston Foundation awarded the Hull Maritime Museum with £350,000 to support its refurbishment
• Mike Fell generously donated £736.34 from the royalties from the sale of his book, An Illustrated History of the Port of Hull and its Railways
• Humber Street Distillery donated £464 from the sale of a Trawler strength gin, made specifically for this project
• Public donations of £34,000
• Trinity House Maritime Charity (THMC) awards a grant of £75,000 to the Hull Maritime Foundation
• The Headley Trust awards a grant of £50,000 to the Hull Maritime Foundation
• The Foyle Foundation awards a grant of £250,000 to Hull Maritime towards North End Shipyard

Milestones

What's next?

This is one of the largest projects of regeneration, development and investment to be delivered in Hull.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to protect, preserve and celebrate our maritime heritage. Heritage that’s deeply rooted in our DNA.

The complexity of this project comes about because it isn’t just a simple refurbishment project. The transformation of the five key sites involved will create one of the best maritime visitor experiences in the UK, a rich story that cannot be told anywhere else in the world. This means there are many interrelationships around refurbishment work, the movement of collections both in to and out of the museums, the movement of both ships and the high value procurement work involved.

This is a hugely ambitious project and many of the elements are very complex and that’s why the planning may take time and change.

Getting this right will take time and often our plans will need to be revised and adjusted as prior steps are completed and influence the work moving forward.

Having said that, we know many people are keen to understand when this will be done so we have set out an indicative timetable for our project below. We would ask all of our supporters to be patient, these times may change, the unforeseen will inevitably pop up and force us to adjust but we are certain that this will be worth the wait.

The level of investment from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Hull City Council is for the city of Hull and its residents.