Projects we’ve funded

A grant from HLF brought the heritage of the Huddersfield Canal to life, helping people to learn about the waterway in a fun and imaginative way.

This project aimed to increase understanding of the historic environment of Peterborough’s City Centre Conservation Area.

This project collected and recorded the histories of women who came from different parts of the world to build a life in Sunderland.

The project focused on the exploration of maps and local archive material to illustrate the inter-generational journeys of people, from different cultural backgrounds and communities, who now live in Fareham.

The Hadhari project recorded memories from a local African-Caribbean care group in Derby, which were at risk of being lost forever.

An oral history project recording the memories and experiences of people who moved from Bangladesh to Birmingham between 1940 and 1971.

Recording memories before they were lost and preserving valuable social history were just two of the aims of this project, run by Luton Irish Forum.

OutStories have collected and preserved the heritage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) communities of Bristol and the surrounding area.

A Sense of the Past researched and recorded the first social history of blindness in Northern Ireland, covering the period from the 1800 to the present day.

Five museums and heritage organisations in the south east of England found new ways to engage audiences with their geological collections.

Highgate Baptist Church researched the remarkable life of Peter Stanford, Birmingham’s first black minister.

The lives of young people aged 17-20 at the time of the 1948 London Olympics were compared with young people today, in this 2012 project.