Projects we’ve funded

The Call Up helped participants piece together the lives of refugees living in Hampshire during the First World War.

Staff and volunteers uncovered a collection of over 3,000 photographs documenting how nursing care and rehabilitation of servicemen and women has changed since 1919.

Young people from North Tyneside found out how the First World War affected their local communities through a range of creative activities.

Volunteers from the Scottish Pipers Association researched the tunes and stories behind the Pipers of the First World War, including the iconic image of the Piper leading the soldiers into battle.

Volunteers used the Otley Museum archives to create a digital map showing the address of every person on the town’s war memorial.

This exhibition tells the remarkable story of Mabel Stobart, a Dorset woman who led a women-only medical team to Serbia between April and December 1915.

Twenty young people, aged 14-19, researched the lives of Bolton soldiers who had died during the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.

This project is exploring the impact of the First World War on the people of Broadland, from the perspectives of the men who went to war and those who remained at home.

Young people from Central Youth Theatre produced a film and exhibition to tell the story of soldiers executed for perceived cowardice in the First World War.

Through workshops and visits, children from Salesbury School used archives to find out how the First World War affected boys living in Blackburn Orphanage.

Montgomery Town Council restored an existing First World War memorial, created a small memorial garden and researched the names of those fallen in the war, gathering stories to create a leaflet and exhibition.

Heroes of Chiswick aims to discover more about the lives of 23 men from the Parish of St. Michael (Sutton Court) who were killed on active service in France, Belgium, Gallipoli and elsewhere.