Pakiki Theatre group.
Projects
Who Wants To Be An Olympian?
Pakiki Theatre’s Who wants to be an Olympian? project explored the sporting heritage of the Olympics and Paralympics with young people in Newham.
Inclusion
Credit: Newham Music Trust
Projects
Olympics 2012 Legacy Songbook
Newham Music Trust will create a music programme to help Newham’s schools explore the positive impact London 2012 had on the area.
Minister for Heritage, Nigel Huddleston, at YHA Ironbridge Coalport with Manager and Deputy Manager Ben Platt (left) and Andrew Philipson (right).
News
Charity YHA awarded almost £1million from the Culture Recovery Fund
The organisation – which provides hostel stays and experiences to improve mental and physical wellbeing for young people – is receiving a financial boost to help it recover from the pandemic.
Simon Thurley, Chair of the Heritage Fund, walking between Chantelle Lindsay and Bobbi Benjamin-Wand, from London Wildlife Trust, at Camley Street Natural Park in London. Image © Broni Lloyd-Edwards.
News
£5million to improve access to nature and combat climate change
We’re partnering with The Wildlife Trusts to bring nature to the heart of communities across the UK, as part of our Platinum Jubilee legacy investment.
Blogs
Dr Sheree Mack: passion projects and empowering women
Dr Sheree Mack, co-ordinator of the National Lottery-funded Wayfinding project, discusses leadership, role models and how we can help all women thrive.
Blogs
How ‘small’ grants can make a big impact for communities
Our Director of Wales marks St David’s Day by reflecting on how the wisdom of the Welsh patron saint can bring communities closer to their heritage.
Jasspreet Thethi and friend at Never Going Underground exhibition
Stories
LGBTQ+ projects that mean the most to us
We are proud to fund projects which celebrate LGBTQ+ history - here are a few of our staff members' favourites.
Pride march, 1974. Credit: Wikimedia
Stories
Saving LGBTQ+ stories before they are lost forever
A new Heritage Fund project might be the last chance to capture the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in Manchester who remember life before the Sexual Offences Act 1967.
News
£2.7million funding for Grimsby Youth Zone
Young people are at the "heart" of a project which will help regenerate the under-served area of North East Lincolnshire
Don’t Die of Ignorance campaign billboard in Levenshulme, c.1986. Credit: Manchester Archives and Local Studies.
Projects
Pride! Prevention! Protection! 30 years of safer sex
LGBT Foundation recorded the memories of people involved in and affected by safer sex campaigns from the 1980s to the present day.
Young black people were crucial to Don't Settle's work.
Projects
Don’t Settle: young people share their stories
On a mission to use heritage to give young people a voice, this project worked with diverse ethnic communities in Birmingham and the Black Country.
Lindy Anderson
Projects
Touching stitches: embroidery access for the blind
This innovative project explored ways to enable blind and partially sighted people to access the Edinburgh College of Art’s historic textile collection, which spans over three centuries.