The Mam Dishes Project

Applicant: COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTRE (CSC)

Project Description: A 12-month intergenerational, cross-cultural project based in Salford. It will share the food traditions, dietary habits, recipes and memories of 15 older women of African descent with younger girls and the wider community.

Decision: Award grant of £35,551 (97.8% of total costs)

LSTM – Past, Present and Future

Applicant: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)

Project Description: LSTM celebrates its 125th anniversary in 2023. Celebratory arts and citizen science programmes are already planned, and this project will use the school's heritage to deliver a range of activities. These will include exhibition development, piloting modules at schools and archiving from November 2022 to December 2023.

Decision: Award grant of £144,973 (73.6% of total costs)

Cultural Evanesce

Applicant: MANCHESTER YOUTH EMPOWERMENT CLUB

Project Description: This one-year intergenerational project will explore Nigerian cultural rituals relating to family life. It will engage young people of Nigerian descent living in Manchester with reminiscence and oral history collection activities. It will also create resources to share the heritage with the wider local community.

Decision: Award grant of £48,893 (100% of total costs)

York Trailblazers

Applicant: York Civic Trust (YCT)

Project Description: A two-year project working in partnership with a range of York's heritage, cultural and community organisations. The project will be incorporated into a wider programme of York-wide cultural projects and initiatives between 2023 and 2025. They will celebrate York's heritage as well as its achievements in science, arts, education and sport.

Decision: Award grant of £249,999 (100% of total costs)

Lions of Rotherham

Applicant: Break-Out Arts

Project Description: A 13-month project to engage young people in local history through interactive workshops and research visits to historic sites. It will target a minimum of 15 people aged 6–18 from Rotherham Youth Theatre (including people with disabilities and from ethnically diverse backgrounds). There will be eight from Dalton Youth group aged 10–18 (living with mental health issues and disabilities and referred through ‘Early Help’ following Social Services’ involvement). As well as five students aged 16–25 from The University Centre Rotherham Student’s Union. 

Decision: Award grant of £33,055 (100% of total costs)

#DYC Nature's Cure in Times of Need: New Voices for North East Nature

Applicant: Natural History Society of Northumbria

Project Description: This 35-month project will engage wider audiences to re-interpret and expand Natural History Society of Northumbria’s existing archive through capturing new voices, stories and perspectives. The activities include collection and presentation of stories of how nature has helped during lockdown, workshops, pilot courses and archive management.  

Decision: Award grant of £110,600 (71.08% of total costs)

Wellbeing project

Applicant: Wellness at Greenacres Community Interest Company

Project Description: This one-year project will run from September 2022 to August 2023 and will connect participants with natural heritage to promote wellbeing. A six-week activity programme for 50 children in four cohorts, as well as five wellbeing events will be delivered to a range of under-served communities.

Decision: Award grant of £9,200 (100% of total costs)

Hessle Road Heritage Walk

Applicant: Spin Off Productions

Project Description: This three-month project (September to November 2022), will research, design, and deliver a heritage and performance-based guided walk of the Hessle Road area of Hull.

Decision: Award grant of £9,690 (100% of total costs)

Romans in Ravenglass 2022

Applicant: Lake District National Park Authority

Project Description: The year-long project will deliver a community-led archaeology excavation at Ravenglass Roman Fort. It will also provide training and school visits, produce a post-excavation report, and share resource and findings widely. The project aims to develop skills and improve the wellbeing of those in the community who are experiencing mental health issues.

Decision: Award grant of £7,735 (25.17% of total costs)

Heritage Trail Development

Applicant: Mossley Civic Society

Project Description: This six-month project will run from September 2022 to March 2023 and will acknowledge, capture, record, celebrate and showcase the regional, UK-wide and international heritage of the former mill town of Mossley, Tameside. Trails set up in 2018 will be refreshed to reflect new voices.

Decision: Award grant of £10,000 (100% of total costs)

Unbroken: Barnsley Collaborates & Commemorates

Applicant: Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust

Project Description: This eight-month project (October 2022 to May 2023) will provide an archival record of the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the community in Barnsley. Stories and images from participants in Barnsley Community will be curated into a book, shared with the communities and stored with Barnsley Museum and Archives.

Decision: Award grant of £10,000 (100% of total costs)

Mercy in the City

Applicant: Sisters of Mercy Sunderland

Project Description: A 30-month project to collect, share and safeguard the heritage and stories of the staff and sisters of the Sisters of Mercy Convent in Sunderland.

Decision: Award grant of £74,499 (100% of total costs)

Making Walls Talk about Blackburn

Applicant: One Voice Blackburn (OVB)

Project Description: An 11-month project researching the history of 12 participants’ homes and explore the heritage of the people who previously lived there. Working at a ‘hyperlocal’ level, the project will concentrate on 19th century terraces that were originally occupied by mill workers. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, became home to people migrating to Lancashire from India and Pakistan.  

Decision: Award grant of £30,410 (100% of total costs)

Somo Sisters Project (SoSi)

Applicant: Women and Digital Inclusion CIC

Project Description: This project, from a social charity working with black women in Liverpool, will gather oral histories from participants with a particular focus on stories of immigration. The project will identify 10 participants from different backgrounds prepared to share their stories of immigration. The project will run training sessions for them, and record and share the oral histories with Liverpool Central Library for archiving.

Decision: Award grant of £38,005 (100% of total costs)

The Salford Music Map

Applicant: Dig Media Ltd

Project Description: This Salford-based digital project will run from September 2022 until November 2023. The project will create an interactive Salford Digital Music Map as a free downloadable mobile phone app and will include at least six trigger points across the city.

Decision: Award grant of £249,450 (100% of total costs)

Ferries of the Tyne Resubmission

Applicant: New Enterprise Studios CIC (NES)

Project Description: To work with partners to provide opportunities for young people to explore the history of the River Tyne ferry crossing, and then share this research more widely.  The 17-month project will recruit young people from the North Shields and Sunderland areas as volunteers. They will undertake research, gather oral histories, and contribute to a short documentary about the cross-Tyne Shields Ferry service.

Decision: Award grant of £53,231 (100% of total costs)

River Health

Applicant: Northumberland Rivers Trust

Project Description: This 18-month project aims to engage young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in improving habitat and access along the rivers Lyne, Wansbeck, Blyth, Pont and Seaton Burn, Northumberland. Five young people who have had contact with the Criminal Justice System will be engaged in full-time apprenticeships with support from 24 young volunteers from similar backgrounds.

Decision: Reject

Language of my heart

Applicant: Multicultural Resource Centre

Project Description: This 18-month project will promote the literary and musical history of the Gujurati and Memoni languages. It will achieve this through interviewing 30 Gujurati and Memoni speaking first generation immigrants. A bilingual book will be compiled of interviews, songs, poetry, and literature, as well as an exhibition at Bolton Museum with future cultural events in Manchester and Rochdale.

Decision: Reject

The Lymm Community Radio Project – broadcasting our heritage

Applicant: Lymm Radio CIC

Project Description: To support 60 young people to explore the history of Lymm in Warrington, Cheshire. The six-month project (September 2022 to March 2023) will deliver school/community workshops and create a radio documentary/broadcast and archive web page.

Decision: Award grant of £8,980 (100% of total costs)

Sporting Heritage – Creating Resilience across the North of England

Applicant: Sporting Heritage Community Interest Company

Project Description: In a two-year (October 2022 to September 2024) project, Sporting Heritage aims to increase their resilience and continue to deliver their existing work with organisations across the North of England, and widen engagement via a grants programme.

Decision: Reject

THE POWERFUL SLOGANS OF THE LUNDA TRIBE AND EXHIBITION OF LUNDA ARTIFACTS

Applicant: SALFORD REFUGEES LINK

Project Description: Starting in September, the year-long project will engage with people of Lunda Tribe heritage – targeting five members from Salford Refugees Link (SARELI) and AFASU (African Families Support). Twelve weekly sessions will be delivered and supported by anthropologists and archaeologists, focusing on powerful slogans of the Lunda Tribe. A series of exhibitions and a five-week installation will be delivered at Gallery Chuck and Salford life Centre.

Decision: Reject

Rock Church Community Project

Applicant: Parochial Church Council of Rock

Project Description: This four-month project (September to December 2023), will re-wire the electrics in the St Philip and St James Church in Rock, Northumberland, providing better lighting for the nave area of the church.

Decision: Reject

Replacement of church heating and boilers

Applicant: THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST BURSCOUGH BRIDGE

Project Description: To replace two existing gas heating boilers and upgrade their current cast-iron piped church heating system with new fan convector heaters. The project is expected to last two to three weeks.

Decision: Reject

Saving Amy Airspeed Oxford project

Applicant: Saving Amy (CIC)

Project Description: The one-year project focuses on aviation and the life of Amy Johnson, an aviator with links to Blackpool, and the first woman to fly single handed from London to Australia. Project activities will rebuild the cockpit of one of the planes she would have used. This forms the first phase of a longer-term plan to re-create the entire static aircraft, adding to the visitor offer at the Spitfire Visitor Centre/Hanger 42, Blackpool Airport.

Decision: Reject