Projects we’ve funded

Young students excluded from school produced multimedia artwork inspired by a historic archive which earned praise and boosted their self-esteem.

A Grade 2* listed windmill at Mayfield in East Sussex has been saved and restored as a local landmark visible for miles.

The Information Age gallery at the Science Museum is the first permanent gallery in the UK dedicated to the history of information and communication technologies.

This project created an online database of records held by the British Red Cross on volunteers during the First World War.

The story of a historic 19th century town house is being used by a charity to help older people to broaden their horizons.

Young people connected with their circus heritage through archive investigations and oral history interviews, and brought their discoveries to life in performance, an exhibition, website and project newspaper.

Our Our Day Out encouraged people to explore the Keith Medley photographic archive based at Liverpool John Moores University.

Young people in Hampshire gained research skills, collected oral histories, created films and curated an exhibition.

Volunteers use photography and artwork to connect to the life of a notable natural historian.

A programme of creative and cultural activities will celebrate the late electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire’s 80th anniversary year.

Manchester Chinese archive trained volunteers to record, preserve and share a community’s hidden history.

A student-led project created a mobile phone app that updates a Jane Austen walking trail in Hampshire to mark 200 years since the author’s death.