Celebrating our community heritage can help bring people together, feel pride in where they live and save stories and traditions.
Thanks to National Lottery players, since 2012 we have awarded over £90million to more than 2,700 community heritage projects across the UK.
What do we support?
We help people researching and sharing the history of a community or of a place.
We also fund projects which combine different types of heritage in a particular location.
Project ideas
Our funding could help people:
- research the impact of a historical event on their town. They could then share their findings through displays, talks and online
- investigate the names on a war memorial
- crowdsource documents and photographs linked to the LGBT+ community, creating an online archive and exhibition
- set up an audio trail around a range of buildings, parks and monuments in a town
- enable a youth group to research their local history and create an animated film about their learnings
How to get funding
Project
Blog
Building relationships through heritage
Liz Ellis, Policy Adviser for Communities and Diversity, explores the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week 2016 – relationships.
Blog
Celebrating LGBT History Month
To celebrate LGBT History Month, Liz Ellis looks at heritage projects that explore the richness of the LGBT community’s history.
Publication
All Our Stories evaluation
All Our Stories was a UK-wide community heritage programme designed to explore, share and celebrate local heritage.
News article
Arian y Loteri Genedlaethol yn helpu cymuned i ddarganfod ei bryngaer gudd
Mae’r Loteri Genedlaethol wedi rhoi bron i £830,000 i grŵp cymunedol yng Nghaerdydd i ddysgu mwy am y dreftadaeth Ganoloesol a’r Oes Haearn ar stepen ei drws, a’i helpu i’w ddiogelu ar gyfer y dyfodol.
Publication
Canllawiau Hanes Llafar
Hanesion llafar yw cofnodi ac archifo atgofion, teimladau ac agweddau pobl.
Blog
Mis Hanes LGBT: adeiladu dyfodol cynhwysol
Yng Nghronfa Dreftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol, rydyn ni eisiau cefnogi sector treftadaeth gynhwysol. I ddathlu Mis Hanes LGBT, mae Liz Ellis yn tynnu sylw at rai o brosiectau treftadaeth LGBT+ yr ydym wedi bod yn falch o'u cefnogi.