Projects we’ve funded

Major works were required to save this building, a rare surviving example of Romantic architecture which was damaged by fire in the 1960s.

Funding was awarded to improve the visitor facilities and storage conditions at Fort Nelson, a 19-acre Victorian gun fort, overlooking Portsmouth Harbour.

The Unlocking the Rylands project was launched to conserve the Grade I listed buildings of the John Rylands Library, and its collection.

Young people and communities from the Welsh Valleys uncovered the experiences of Welsh soldiers during the First World War and created digital animations.

The centrepiece of this major project was conserving the Great East Window, the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the country.

The graves at Welford Road Cemetery, the third oldest cemetery in the country, have been conserved and better interpreted for new visitors.

A series of creative workshops for schools, young people and patient groups ran alongside Out of Clay, an exhibition of Roman, Medieval and 20th-century pottery at Milton Keynes Hospital.

This ambitious restoration project helped return the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds to its original glory.

Volunteers celebrated the work of Scottish nurses and doctors during the First World War.

This year-long heritage learning project celebrated and promoted the rich cultural life of the LGBTQ+ community in Brighton and Hove.

This project helped to restore Peterborough’s Central Park back to its Victorian splendour.

Restoring and enhancing three linked town centre parks in Gosport: Falklands Gardens, Bastion No.1 and Walpole Park.