The Heritage Lottery Fund was founded in 1994. The Heritage Lottery Fund has advised that Heritage Lottery funding as provided to each of the principal seaside towns in England and Wales since that date is as follows.
Town Total value of project (£) Barry 1,446,161 Bognor Regis 1,866,292 Bridlington 307,521 Burnham-on-Sea 439,731 Clacton-on-Sea 601,270 Dawlish/Teignmouth 587,368 Deal 355,866 Eastbourne 2,789,531 Exmouth 95,709 Falmouth 22,171,173 Folkestone/Hythe 4,921,621 Great Yarmouth 6,865,010 (Greater) Blackpool 7,933,638 (Greater) Bournemouth 3,774,209 (Greater) Brighton 14,023,150 (Greater) Worthing 2,324,665 Hastings/Bexhill 8,838,763 Ilfracombe 1,537,824 Isle of Wight1 6,755,735 Llandudno/Colwyn Bay 2,691,304 Lowestoft 5,605,289 Minehead 1,091,431 Morecambe 365,624 Newquay 135,960 Penzance 7,576,752 Porthcawl 103,743 Rhyl/Prestatyn 2,854,951 Scarborough 3,890,353 Sidmouth 1,335,159 Skegness 1,883,154 Southend-on-Sea 1,851,142 Southport 5,917,842 St. Ives 781,309 Swanage 3,395,728 Thanet2 7,492,243 Torbay3 9,783,519 Weston-Super-Mare 2,402,646 Weymouth 2,948,901 Whitby 10,586,503 Whitley Bay 492,117 Whitstable/Herne Bay 4,033,126 Grand total 164,854,032 1 Includes only the resorts of Cowes, Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin and Ventnor 2 Includes only the resorts of Broadstairs, Margate, Ramsgate and Westgate 3 Includes only the resorts of Brixham, Paignton and Torquay