Yorkshire and the Humber

Volunteers used the Otley Museum archives to create a digital map showing the address of every person on the town’s war memorial.

As part of the All Our Stories programme, young people focused on the heritage of the coal and steel industry of South Yorkshire and were empowered to tell the local story of industrial decline.

From spinning tops to football tops was a 12-week programme delivered in partnership with the grant holder Mini Millers and Rotherham United Community Sports Trust.

Friends of Bowling Park have developed and trained their members to protect the park for the future.

Animal feed to gun oil is a yearlong project to discover the Selby’s industrial heritage and share the stories with the local community.

A team of volunteers received training to survey, document and conserve small ancient woodlands for the benefit of local communities.

A £46,600 grant allowed a glimpse into the world of Victorian crime and punishment by breathing new life into the nineteenth century courtroom in historic Leeds Town Hall.

It was a lucky quirk of fate that Chapeltown missed the 1990s’ housing boom because it meant that the original Victorian and Edwardian buildings were left standing to be ripe for restoration as part of a £802,000 project to inject new life into the area.

Give children a history book and they might struggle to understand the full picture, give them a mop cap to wear or a stick and hoop to play with and they will immerse themselves in their own medieval world.

This project was designed to extend Bradford Industrial Museum’s educational and outreach work.

Historic Lister Park was restored and enhanced as part of a project to renovate and refurbish the heritage of the park.

Greenhead Park opened to the public in 1884 and was a perfect place for a family picnic or day out until it became run down over time and and was no longer safe for the community to enjoy.