England, North: delegate decisions July 2022
#DYC Cherish the Past, Create for the Future
Applicant: The Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth Textile Collections
Project Description: This 18 month project will: improve public access to the Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth textile collection, help the organisation to become more resilient, and support their ambition to secure a long-term future for the collection.
Decision: Award grant of £249,541 (100% of total costs)
Heritage Centre Stage: Activity Programme for the Alhambra Theatre & St Georges Hall
Applicant: Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Project Description: This three year project will develop and deliver an extensive heritage activity programme for the Alhambra Theatre and St George’s Hall in Bradford.
Decision: Award grant of £185,912 (92.53% of total costs)
Our Community's Voice
Applicant: Keswick Museum and Art Gallery Management Limited
Project Description: This 26 month project will engage the local community with heritage to present co-curated exhibitions at the Community Gallery at Keswick Museum.
Decision: Award grant of £40,315 (100% of total costs)
Sound It Out – engaging young people with sound archives
Applicant: Manchester City of Literature
Project Description: Working in partnership with Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, Manchester City of Literature will reconnect public interest in sound archives. This will be through targeted activities with young people from under-served communities.
Decision: Award grant of £52,980 (78.51% of total costs)
Unlocking Manchester Town Hall
Applicant: Manchester City Council
Project Description: This 27 month digital collection and engagement project will collect, record, share and engage people in the stories, images and memories of Manchester Town Hall.
Decision: Reject
#DYC IMAGINE: Creating The Peace Museum of the Future
Applicant: The Peace Museum
Project Description: This 18 month project aims to create new public exhibitions galleries, engagement spaces and collections storage for The Peace Museum. It will be relocating to Salts Mill in early 2023.
Decision: Award Grant of £245,651 (63.29% of total costs)
Musical Express
Applicant: Creativity Works Preston
Project Description: This sixteen month social history project aims to induce memories from older people with dementia using artefacts, stories and music.
Decision: Award Grant of £45,474 (78.3% of total costs)
Sheffield Treasure: Celebrating 200 Years of Excellence in Cutlery Making
Applicant: Ken Hawley Collection Trust
Project Description: This 23 month project will utilise the significance of the 'Millennium knife', also known as Yearknife, to engage a wider audience with Sheffield's industrial heritage.
Decision: Award Grant of £44,192 (100% of total costs)
Leeds Partnership Parks – Everyday Greenspace for Everyone
Applicant: Love Leeds Parks
Project Description: This three year project will undertake activity within six community parks across Leeds. It will provide a range of opportunities for people to better connect with the greenspace heritage in their own local area.
Decision: Award Grant of £249,995 (81.71% of total costs)
Wor Seahorse Spectacle
Applicant: Moving Parts Arts CIO
Project Description: This eight month project seeks to engage 120 people in the exploration of Newcastle's historic link with the symbolism of the seahorse. It will culminate in the creation of a large seahorse puppet and performance at Newcastle's fourth Puppetry Festival.
Decision: Award Grant of £10,000 (35.71% of total costs)
Bolton Radicals
Applicant: THE BOX.TV (BOLTON) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Project Description: This 10 month project (August 2022 – June 2023) will film interviews with local people who have contributed to social movements in the past 70 years. This includes women's liberation, environmental campaigns, and LGBTQ+ rights, culminating in a final film.
Decision: Award Grant of £5,600 (100% of total costs)
A Round to Remember
Applicant: City of Hull Sport & Community Group CIC
Project Description: Developed from online sessions during lockdown, this project aims to improve Hull residents’ wellbeing by sharing boxing heritage in a year-long programme of reminiscence sessions.
Decision: Award Grant of £9,500 (82.61% of total costs)
HERITAGE OF MIGRANTS (MUSIC AND DANCE)
Applicant: NUMERACY 4 ALL LTD
Project Description: This 15 month project will engage people with the cultural traditions of migrant communities, especially those with African heritage. This will be through oral histories, a project website, and heritage-focused African Day celebrations.
Decision: Reject
Play park improvement
Applicant: Marton and Gate Burton Parish Hall
Project Description: To install new playground equipment at Maron and Gate Burton Village Hall, Lincolnshire.
Decision: Reject
Modernist Society: increasing engagement, inclusion and collaboration 2022–2025
Applicant: The Modernist Society
Project Description: To strengthen and expand a UK-wide network of collaborators. The project will deliver three strands of activity to improve wider engagement with the architecture, art and built heritage of the 20th century.
Decision: Reject
Willerby Heritage Trail
Applicant: Willerby Parish Council
Project Description: To see the creation of a two-mile heritage trail through the village of Willerby, East Yorkshire.
Decision: Reject
Brookfield Allotments Welcome Area Development Two
Applicant: Brookfield Allotments Tenants' Association
Project Description: This seven month project will re-develop an overgrown and neglected plot of land in Nantwich, Cheshire.
Decision: Reject
Swinton Lions: Mills and Mines to International Fame
Applicant: Swinton Lions Community Sports Foundation
Project Description: This 12 month project seeks to create an accessible archive regarding the history of the Swinton Lions Ruby League Club and its associated past.
Decision: Reject
Old Billy The Barge Horse
Applicant: Community Objectives CIC
Project Description: This six month project will focus on the heritage of barge horse Old Billy.
Decision: Reject
Samson Fox The Man Who Captured Sunlight
Applicant: Royal Hall Restoration Trust
Project Description: This project is to produce a play about the life of Inventor Samson Fox.
Decision: Reject