West Midlands

This unique historic attraction gives visitors an opportunity to see how ordinary people lived in 19th-century Birmingham.

The Birmingham Pen Museum has been expanded, with a new activity space to help bring its unique heritage to life for future generations.

Led by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, and delivered in partnership with the Friends of Burslem Park group, this project focused on one of the largest registered Victorian Parks in the UK.

Dartmouth Park has been transformed as part of a project run by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council.

Through a series of new exhibitions, The Road Ahead project retold the story of British motor manufacturing and its importance to the people of the West Midlands.

The Llanymynech Limeworks Heritage Area has been conserved and restored, ensuring the public will be able to enjoy this historic site safely.

Improvements to visitor and workshop facilities at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm have helped to improve visitor access and provide training in traditional skills.

Previously neglected parts of the landscape were revitalised and landowner and public support transformed thanks to the Blue Remembered Hills project.

Founded in 827, Polesworth Abbey served as a Benedictine nunnery and now functions as the parish church for Polesworth village.

The Venus Pool Nature Reserve, Cound project allowed Shropshire Ornithological Society to acquire approximately 28 further acres of land surrounding Venus Pool.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) wanted their audiences and offer to better reflect the city’s diversity, and to change the organisation’s culture, putting audiences at its heart.