Giz a Job: an oral history of the 1981 People's March for Jobs

Applicant: Vauxhall Community Law and Information Centre

Project description: This 16-month project will explore the 30-day protest which culminated in the Peoples March for Jobs in 1981. It will be a multi-dimensional community project, providing a people's history of the march and the wider right-to-work movement.

Decision: Award grant of £70,167 (100% of total costs)

Laugh it Off: The Historical Role of Humour in Liverpool's Resilience

Applicant: The Comedy Trust

Project description: This three-year project will explore Liverpool's comedy heritage and the wellbeing benefits of laughter. It will establish a young people's club to co-lead on the project's outputs, organise workshops, create a touring exhibition, and produce a documentary on the history of comedy in the area.

Decision: Award grant of £98,571 (91.63% of total costs)

Capturing Barnsley's Mining Stories

Applicant: Barnsley Main Heritage Group

Project description: This 12-month project will provide a website for Barnsley Main Colliery and feature a virtual tour, aerial drone videography, a documentary film, and personal histories of former mine workers and their families. There will also be an accessible walking tour of the site, workshops for local students in documentary film making and historical research, and a public premier of the documentary.

Decision: Award grant of £8,400 (100% of total costs)

The Reivers Project

Applicant: Elysium Creative Arts CIC

Project description: This one-year project will highlight local history and bring it to life through digital outputs. The project will be delivered across the North to reflect the geographical scope of the story. Partners for the project include: Alnwick Playhouse, the Maltings Berwick, Queen's Hall Arts Centre in Hexham, Durham University, Create North, and Hexham Gaol.

Decision: Award grant of £10,000 (68.37% of total costs)

Treemarkable

Applicant: Manchester Environmental Education Network (MEEN)

Project description: This 12-month project coincides with MEEN's 20-year anniversary, delivering a minimum of 10 sessions across schools. It will encourage pupils to learn about the natural heritage by re-visiting at least three of the schools or park settings where it has delivered tree planting.

Decision: Award grant of £9,922 (100% of total costs)

Inspire Heritage Project

Applicant: Gateway Community LTD

Project description: This one-year project will offer young people and adults with learning disabilities in Halton, Merseyside, the opportunity to explore their local heritage. This is through research activities, photography, and the creation of an exhibition.

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

Special Histories of Bradford

Applicant: Summat Creative Community Interest Company

Project description: This six-month project will work to engage audiences with learning disabilities with their own heritage. They will work alongside ten participants with lived experience to create a body of work based on research such as accounts from the Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Menston. As well as stories told through the history of various organisations.

Decision: Award grant of £7,583 (43.13% of total costs)

Consett Park Bowling Club – Centenary Stories

Applicant: Digital Voice for Communities C.I.C

Project description: This intergenerational year-long project will capture and celebrate 100 years of Consett Bowling Club, County Durham. It will work with residents in Consett and a local primary school to collect stories, memorabilia, create films, and present an exhibition to celebrate the club’s centenary.

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

Recovering With Trees – connecting people and trees for education & wellbeing

Applicant: Harwes Farm CIC

Project description: This two-year project will engage communities in Pendle, Lancashire with nature, consolidate previous progress, increase engagement, and work to turn Harwes Farm into a self-sustaining organisation.

Decision: Award grant of £240,846 (100% of total costs)

Access the Great Outdoors – Experience Community Resilience Planning

Applicant: Experience Community CIC

Project description: A nine-month project to undertake resilience planning, identify business development and income opportunities and improve the user offer. In addition to organisational development, it will improve accessibility, update the Phototrails website and app, and rollout additional training courses.

Decision: Award grant of £99,800 (55.34% of total costs)

Catch Wrestling in Lancashire

Applicant: Aspull Olympic Wrestling Club

Project description: This one-year project will collate, conserve, digitise and appropriately store a collection of memorabilia and archive documents relating to the history of Catch Wrestling in Wigan, Lancashire. It will create a website and an exhibition, sharing one of the lesser-known aspects of Wigan's history.

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

FIELD: rural voices

Applicant: Two Destination Language

Project description: Helping heritage organisations with inclusivity by engaging with creatives. It will deliver a week-long residency to explore new thinking regarding diversifying audiences for heritage projects – particularly in rural areas – and produce a publication with contributions from the residency delegates.

Decision: Reject

20 years of PiNC

Applicant: Pride in North Cumbria

Project description: This year-long project will celebrate Pride in North Cumbria’s 20th anniversary by sharing local stories and the contributions of its past and current members, employees, and the local community. It will gather documentation from the Museum of Youth Culture archives and create a digital exhibition to be displayed during both LGBTQ+ History month and Pride month.

Decision: Award grant of £9,960 (100% of total costs)

Liverpool Congolese Dance Initiative

Applicant: Bethlehem City of the Heroes Ltd

Project description: A seven-month project working with young Congolese British women to create a new dance group. It will explore Congolese dance techniques and traditions, culminating in a showcase dance performance.

Decision: Award grant of £9,878 (100% of total costs)

Memories of Hillsborough and Owlerton 1930 to 1950

Applicant: Hillsborough and Owlerton Local History Group

Project description: This two-year project will explore the social and living conditions of the Hillsborough & Owlerton area of Sheffield through the lens of recently restored cinefilm showing everyday life in the area between 1930 and 1950.

Decision: Reject

Cullercoats Watch House Restoration

Applicant: Cullercoats Watch House

Project description: To restore and renovate Cullercoats Watch House in North Shields, in addition to training their volunteers to give heritage talks to the local community and local school children.

Decision: Reject

Saving Somali Heritage

Applicant: Somali Advice link

Project description: Led by people from the Somali community, the project will engage those who feel disconnected from their Somali Heritage, including young people, women, young mothers and the older generation.

Decision: Reject

We are together

Applicant: The Centre for Integration CIC

Project description: To support the Roma community living in the Bradford area by organising door-to-door activities, helping communications with local authorities, and organising conferences and events on a weekly basis.

Decision: Reject

Stallingborough Parish Church Modernizing

Applicant: The Friends of Stallingborough Church

Project description: This year-long project centres around installing an accessible toilet and new plumbing for use by church visitors. This will provide a new water supply and suitable drainage, making significant structural changes to the Vestry. 

Decision: Reject

Saltaire Heritage Retrofit Guide

Applicant: STREET SPACE COMMUNITY CIC

Project description: To create best practice guidance for the sustainable retrofit of homes in Saltaire, Bradford. The guidance will cover a range of sensitive improvements, and be of benefit to local private homeowners and landlords undertaking building work to Grade II listed properties.

Decision: Reject

Stonework Repairs Blyth Church

Applicant: Blyth Parochial Church Council

Project description: A six-month project to provide repairs and conservation to damaged stones in the Grade I listed St Mary and St Martin's Church, in Blyth, Nottinghamshire.

Decision: Reject