Projects we’ve funded

Bedford High Street is in a designated conservation area, but before our grant for the restoration of some of its historic buildings, it was looking shabby and unloved.

A project focusing on Bill Naughton, Bolton’s most famous and successful writer, 25 years after his death.

Young people from North Tyneside found out how the First World War affected their local communities through a range of creative activities.

The project involves the re-imagining of New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth.

The project transformed the eastern end of The People’s Palace, following its founders’ original vision to “entertain, inform and educate”.

This citizen science project involved local people collecting vital information on upland peat landscapes while learning habitat monitoring skills.

The Glasgow Building Preservation Trust ran an exciting programme of events to enable children to get involved in Glasgow’s built heritage.

The Glasgow Women’s Library explored the stories behind the badges worn by women involved in activism.

The Grimsay Boatshed and Am Bàta received a Skills for the Future grant to provide traditional boatbuilding workshops to local schools.

An HLF grant enabled Kettle’s Yard to create greater public access and improve the care of the collection.

When it was discovered during local history lessons that a medieval manor house was buried under their classroom, the children of Tinsley Junior School took to archaeology with enthusiasm, some even taking old spoons to set up their own digs in their back gardens at home.

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) celebrated the life and work of Anthony Burgess, the novelist, poet, playwright, critic and composer born in Manchester in 1917.