Projects we’ve funded

100 years on, Ballymoney celebrated the Olympic marathon victory of one of its most famous sporting sons with an exhibition, public performances and workshops.

A pair of peregrine falcons inspired a community project managed by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.

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

This project focused on actively engaging local community groups and schools in Portsmouth City Council’s internationally important Conan Doyle Collection.

Volunteers researched the history of The Croft in Nottingham, a non-institutional home for lone mothers during the 1960s and 1970s.

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

This community-guided research project, Welling Will Remember Them, told the stories of people from Welling and East Wickham in South East London who fought in the First World War.

Volunteers investigated the impact of the First World War on the people of Leicester and shared their research through exhibitions, school workshops and online.

This project provided opportunities for people to learn and engage with the story of Llanyrafon Manor and the surrounding area.

Thanks to a National Lottery grant, the Woodland Trust improved visitor infrastructure at Skipton Castle Woods.

This two-year project is exploring the story of Merton and its people over the past 150 years through the medium of photography.

The origins of surfing in Britain - and the role of a Cornish surf life saving club in the sport's development - was digitally documented and preserved in this project.