West Midlands

They developed a range of accredited skills and created a performance and exhibition.

The Canal & River Trust’s Waterways Heritage Skills Project created a pool of committed and skilled young people in waterway heritage skills, filling skills gaps within the Trust’s own workforce and the wider heritage sector.

On a mission to use heritage to give young people a voice, this project worked with diverse ethnic communities in Birmingham and the Black Country.

Running from March to September 2022, the £12million festival featured hundreds of artistic commissions, engaging a local and national audience with Birmingham’s cultural heritage.

Worcester Life Stories are building an online platform for recording and sharing local stories.

Young people from Chesterton changed their attitude to their neighbourhood by uncovering its Roman past.

School pupils explored Birmingham archives to discover more about how protesters helped win women the vote.

A first for the West Midlands, Chinese Lives in Birmingham was created to capture the hidden histories of Birmingham's Chinese community.

Highgate Baptist Church researched the remarkable life of Peter Stanford, Birmingham’s first black minister.

An oral history project recording the memories and experiences of people who moved from Bangladesh to Birmingham between 1940 and 1971.

Young people recorded stories of their successful Birmingham hockey club, the Barford Tigers, to celebrate its 50th anniversary.