East of England

Young people gained new skills while preserving and raising awareness of Pakistani/Kashmiri heritage in Luton.

Luton Cultural Services Trust and a youth group purchased and decorated a traditional Romani vardo (wagon) in an original folk art style.

People living in Luton took a step back in time to explore what life was like during the First World War and the impact it had on people living in Luton at the time.

From Russia with Love was a learning programme about the Walpole Collection of masterpiece paintings at Houghton Hall, based on the highly successful exhibition, Houghton Revisited.

The issue of crime on the home front has often been neglected. This project will focus on the impact of the First World War on crime in Bishop's Stortford and surrounding areas.

The Friends of Barclay Park were awarded funds to carry out extensive restoration work to the park and lake with support from the local community.

A project to make the Ipswich Town Football Charitable Trust archive more widely accessible, and uncovering the heritage of the club through individual stories and artefacts.

This project aimed to increase understanding of the historic environment of Peterborough’s City Centre Conservation Area.

The project celebrated 100 years of the Women’s Institute (WI) in the Isle of Ely.

This project was based around a dress collection that was gifted to City College Peterborough.

The aim of The Family Adams Project was to develop a community archive of a Victorian shop found in the historic heart of Littleport town.

In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury bringing the very first migrants from the Caribbean to settle in Britain. There are many in the Watford community who arrived then, or in the ten years that followed, in what has subsequently become known as the “Windrush Decade”.