Projects we’ve funded

This project was based on an idea taken from an original book, published by the Craven Herald in 1920, commemorating every soldier from the Craven District who fell in the First World War.

The project enabled the museum to increase public access to more of its collections.

This Conservation Area Partnership Scheme focused on Newark Town Wharf

Students from Birmingham universities worked with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to create an exhibition to showcase and explore the museum’s West African textile collections.

A team of volunteers received training to survey, document and conserve small ancient woodlands for the benefit of local communities.

This project celebrated the 150th anniversary of Newark Town Cemetery.

Volunteers from the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives captured, shared and celebrated the long history of Gloucester Rugby Football Club.

The project involved researching and recording the history of the Palace Theatre and the people who have worked in it.

Inspired by Kent's agricultural heritage, disabled children and young people created a vegetable garden, fruit orchard, and bee and insect sanctuary in their school grounds.

A partnership between a charitable trust and two major museums opened up the heritage of South Asian music and dance to wider audiences.

The project focused on developing the East Midlands section of the National Byway route, a 3,300 mile cycling route that links up heritage sites around England and parts of Scotland and Wales.

This project, at Pontypool Museum, was to conserve the historic museum building and ensure that it is set up to permanently house and display collections.