Five heritage organisations have made it through the first-round and won initial support for major grants totalling £52m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Major grants are for large scale projects of more than £5m.They now have up to two years to submit fully developed proposals and win a firm award.

The largest funding award was for £15m of restoration work on a Grade I listed Temperate House glasshouse and the setting up of a community outreach centre at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.

Other projects include a £10.9m site redevelopment of the Geffrye Museum: Museum of the Home in London, £10m to develop the British Museum World Conservation and Exhibition Centre, £.8.15m to restore the fire-damaged Hastings Pier and £7.4m for the redevelopment Windermere Steamboat Museum in Cumbria.

Dame Jenny Abramsky chair of HLF said: “The range was both diverse and of the highest quality – so the projects we are supporting are truly exemplary and will make a real impact on people’s experience of heritage in the years to come.”