Projects we’ve funded

This HLF-supported project took on seven trainees in 2011 for 12 months of work-based training focusing on heritage building skills and historic landscape management.

Volunteers across Lincolnshire became stewards for their local historic environment by completing a survey of the county's heritage assets to identify those at risk.

The project aimed to make the charity sustainable for 50 years, in terms of maintenance and conservation, learning, engagement and curatorial needs.

An exhibition featuring Pride and Prejudice, which Jane Austen penned in north Hampshire, travelled around the country during the novel’s 200th anniversary year.

The Routes2Roots campaign inspired the City of Colours youth panel to explore Birmingham’s musical history.

Young people captured, preserved and shared the Coming Out Stories of Birmingham’s LGBT community.

Young people in Crewe connected with the heritage of their town using digital gaming.

Beacon Hill Arts worked with Newcastle Castle to help young disabled and autistic people engage with their local heritage through film and music.

Young people from the communities of Muirhouse and Pilton in Edinburgh have been exploring the traditions and evolution of travelling circuses.

In 2010 and 2012, we supported the Sustaining Traditional Building Skills in Northern Ireland project.

The City and County of Swansea (CCS) celebrated the centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth through the redevelopment of the Dylan Thomas Centre.

Outside their lesson time, a group of students investigated the lives of people from Havant during the First World War and created a film, website and book.