Community heritage

The new Football Museum of Wales and Wrexham Museum brings football heritage and local history back to its historic home in north-east Wales through a fully refurbished museum.

Sound Waves: Music in Newham is exploring 60 years of rich and diverse music heritage across the borough and introducing it to a new generation.

A cluster of Grade II listed buildings known as the Buttermarket has been transformed into a thriving food and cultural hub, reviving Redruth’s heritage as a popular market town.

Our investment has helped bring St Columb's Hall back into community ownership and is funding improvements to make it welcoming, accessible and no longer at risk.

War memorials, tombs, fountains and sculptures that tell the city’s story are sharing £240,000 in repair and conservation funding – and were largely chosen by a public vote.

A community-led project documented and shared never-before-heard experiences of players, their families and fans from the 1970s to the present day.

We've awarded nearly £12.5million to a transformative project aiming to preserve the UK’s biggest National Park, empowering communities to help nature and improve wellbeing.

In Gwynedd, north Wales, our £1.7million grant is helping put a community at the heart of their natural and industrial heritage.

This project celebrated the history of women's football and the achievements of players from the 1970s to the present day.

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

This project brought together communities across the Lower Teifi Valley to celebrate and protect the river's rich natural and cultural heritage.

Educating local communities in Grimsby about neurodiversity throughout human history, including – the development of psychiatry as a discipline, the history of diagnoses and how society treated neurodivergent people.