Celebrating our community heritage can help bring people together, feel pride in where they live and save stories and traditions.
Thanks to National Lottery players, since 2012 we have awarded over £90million to more than 2,700 community heritage projects across the UK.
What do we support?
We help people researching and sharing the history of a community or of a place.
We also fund projects which combine different types of heritage in a particular location.
Project ideas
Our funding could help people:
- research the impact of a historical event on their town. They could then share their findings through displays, talks and online
- investigate the names on a war memorial
- crowdsource documents and photographs linked to the LGBT+ community, creating an online archive and exhibition
- set up an audio trail around a range of buildings, parks and monuments in a town
- enable a youth group to research their local history and create an animated film about their learnings
How to get funding
Project
Blog
Building relationships through heritage
Liz Ellis, Policy Adviser for Communities and Diversity, explores the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week 2016 – relationships.
Blog
Celebrating LGBT History Month
To celebrate LGBT History Month, Liz Ellis looks at heritage projects that explore the richness of the LGBT community’s history.
Publication
All Our Stories evaluation
All Our Stories was a UK-wide community heritage programme designed to explore, share and celebrate local heritage.
News article
Narberth’s golden era of pop and rock remembered
During the late 1960s the Queens Hall in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, gained an unlikely reputation amongst pop and rock music fans as a venue that attracted some of the biggest names in the business.
Story
Changing lives: how Sean is helping others leave addiction behind
After 20 years of drink and drug addiction, Sean turned his life around at a rehabilitation centre. Years later, he returned to help others on the road to recovery.
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