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Heritage can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations.

Explore the inspiring projects we’ve funded and help inform your own application.

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  • discover the breadth of heritage we fund
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A person stands next to a large hand-made dragon sculpture
Artworks created by community members include a large dragon carried at Butetown Carnival. Credit: Innovate Trust.

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Bringing heritage into the hands of people across Wales

Wales Residents Engaging in Arts, Culture and Heritage (Wales REACH) has empowered communities to explore the heritage that matters to them.

A person wearing an 18th-century style green floral gown and feathered headpiece performs a dance routine to an audience inside a historic hall
A seated dance workshop at Bath Assembly Rooms. Credit: National Trust/Alana Wright.

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Reconnecting the Bath Assembly Rooms

The National Trust's three-year project will create new spaces and opportunities for people to engage with this much-loved heritage site.

A vetaran wearing a green beret looks at black and white photographs of people in an exhibition space
Royal Marine Veteran Peter Othen in the Remembrance Room inside the Royal Marines Experience. Credit: Jas Lehal/Press Association.

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Portsmouth’s new Royal Marines Experience

The museum offers an immersive journey through more than 360 years of Royal Marines history with real voices, personal objects and Commando challenges.

A top down view of several people's hands sewing on a large piece of patterned fabric covered in embroidery hoops
Crafting together encouraged participants to share stories and connect with their heritage.

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Preserving Afro-Caribbean heritage through craft

Taking inspiration from an iconic carpet, Crafting Our Homes brought people together to share memories and explore African and Caribbean craft traditions.

A seated audience turning to listen to an audience member holding a microphone
The project brought people together to celebrate and reflect on the enduring impact of the Nello James Centre. Credit: The Miren Collective.

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Case study: reconnecting generations through Black community heritage

Learn how Rekindling Nello James reunited a community, inspired young people and developed an inclusive approach to running an intergenerational heritage project.

Young people pond dipping looking for amphibians
Young people pond dipping and looking for amphibians. Credit: Amphibian and Reptile Conservation.

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Connecting young people to the UK’s wildlife

Hop Spots is an ambitious project that will help children and young people discover, understand and care for native species of reptiles and amphibians.

A person wearing a yellow coat with a blue backpack stands on a hillside surrounded by rolling Welsh hills
The project will restore and enhance almost 870 hectares of priority habitats across the uplands and valleys of Neath Port Talbot and Rhondda Cynon Taff. Credit: Richard Pulman.

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Bringing nature and communities together: Lost Peatlands Connections

Lost Peatlands Connections will restore and celebrate important upland habitats while helping people discover, enjoy and reconnect with natural and cultural heritage.

A large whale-shaped lantern being paraded in front of a mural of Moby Dick
The highlight of the project was a lantern in the shape of the famous white whale. Credit: Karel Jasper.

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Bringing Moby Dick back to Fishguard

Inspired by the story of a coastal community transformed into a Hollywood filmset, this project is recording local maritime and movie heritage.

Paula Ogun Hector stands beside a woven tapestry made up of portraits of Black Britons from the Second World War
Paula Ogun Hector, Founder of Tapestry of Black Britons with a tapestry inspired by the Second World War. Credit: Sharron Wallace.

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The Tapestry of Black Britons weaving histories together

Inspired by both the Bayeux Tapestry and African and Caribbean textile traditions, this project celebrates nearly 2,000 years of Black British lives.

A wide, shallow river in Herefordshire borded by green vegetation and woodland
The River Stort, where a dedicated kingfisher nest bank was constructed. Credit: Hertfordshire & Middlesex Wildlife Trust.

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Restoring Hertfordshire's chalk rivers

A grant of £1.7million enabled this project to restore over 11 kilometers of streams within the River Lea catchment.

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