The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has handed out a £10m funding package to be shared by four heritage sites.

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (£2.32m); Cardigan Castle, Ceredigion (£4.7m); Charleston Barns, Lewes (£2.4m); and the Royal Crescent, Bath (£1.4m) will use the funding for upgrading their visitor experiences.

Kettle's Yard, a museum and gallery belonging to the University of Cambridge, is to be extended and a new programme of workshops, seminars, lectures and displays will be created.

At Charleston Farmhouse - the former home of artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant - the site's operator Charleston Trust will redevelop the barn and yard into a new education and exhibition space. Additional activities are planned around the site's heritage, while training opportunities will be offered to 200 volunteers and 15 internship positions will be created.

Meanwhile, a new heritage centre will be created at Cardigan Castle, one of a handful of remaining stone castles built in Wales. An activity plan will also be put in place, providing training for volunteers in all aspects of the day-to-day running of the castle, management of the gardens and leading guided tours.

At the Grade I-listed No 1 Royal Crescent, the grant will allow for the attraction's two buildings to be re-connected, creating a larger and improved museum and exhibition space. This will enable the story of this Georgian house to be told from upstairs and downstairs perspectives, showing visitors what life would have been like in Bath at the time.