Midlands and East

Our funding supported hundreds of locals to rescue Wickham Market’s last pub, preserving a valued gathering place.

The Wilder Luton project is helping local people connect with and care for green spaces in the town and the surrounding chalk hills landscape.

English Heritage are learning more about the Old Hall, revitalising the garden and hosting a range of activities and volunteering opportunities for the local community.

Grade II* buildings on the site of a medieval leper hospital are being repurposed as affordable rent homes after lying derelict for over 50 years.

This Landscape Connections project will bring together farmers, communities and young people to improve habitats and strengthen ecological networks across one of England's most treasured landscapes.

In Bury St Edmunds, the ruins of one of England’s great medieval abbeys are being conserved, with new interpretation, access and activities to better connect the abbey with the nearby cathedral and town.

This project is supporting under-served communities to learn and protect heritage skills and crafts that are at risk.

Therapeutic gardening is helping preserve the natural heritage of Kings Heath Park and changing local lives.

At St John the Baptist Church in Nash, storm damage and the climate crisis have accelerated the deterioration of the medieval church’s rare 16th-century spire over the past 20 years.

Birmingham-based social enterprise Believe in Me is transforming young lives by shining a light on forgotten South Asian histories.

In its 150th year, the Beacon Centre for the Blind in Wolverhampton will preserve the stories of visually impaired people and make the city’s archives more accessible.

The Cromwell Museum secured the small pocket watch for its permanent collection following a public appeal and is now sharing its story with new audiences.