Projects we’ve funded

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.

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.

BAM!Sistahood! was a ground breaking digital heritage project, documenting 70 years of black and minority (BAM) women's heritage in North East England.

Our £780,800 grant will help restore a famous main-line steam locomotive based on the Keighley and the Worth Valley Railway.

This Mencap Cymru project captured the history and nature of friendships and relationships experienced by people with a learning disability in Wales.

The Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft used the Heritage Grants programme to fund a project to revamp its collections and premises.

Yorkshire Museum of Farming worked with volunteers to create an exhibition for their previously unseen Women’s Land Army Collection.

Volunteers and local residents have gathered information on 1,700 local men from Tynemouth, all of whom died in the First World War.

A community archaeology project in Windermere will uncover the site of a former Second World War housing complex used to house child Holocaust survivors.

A rich social archive was preserved for future generations thanks to a community history project across the Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands.

The Legacy of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah project explores the history of a Memorial School in Bangladesh and the Race Relations Centre in Manchester which both commemorate a 13 year-old boy killed for defending others from racist bullying.

The GalGael Trust partnered with the Clyde Maritime Trust to engage local people to help preserve Glasgow’s boat building heritage.