Projects we’ve funded

All Saints Church, Darsham carried out urgent structural repairs and went from being a cold formal space to a vital community hub.

This project saw urgent repairs made to the roof and external stone work of Sunderland Minster. The church now welcomes a wider audience due to the improved facilities and organised activities within the community.

This project restored the stone steps of St Patrick's Church in Gateshead, re-instating the main access route into the church and the Parish rooms.

This project saw the restoration of the windows, nave and transept of St Andrew’s Church in Sunderland and opening it to a wider audience.

Young people with learning disabilities practiced a variety of ancient crafts and shared new skills with their wider local community through a traditional fair.

Young people from across Nuneaton and Bedworth worked with the local charity, Mercurial Arts, the Borough Council and English Heritage, to create their own unique listing system and identify and record the buildings and sites important to them.

Young people worked in teams to create new interpretation, helping shape the way visitors engage with the Richmond Borough Art Collection in the future.

Letters to themselves to be read in fifty years’ time, a Stoke City FA Cup Final ticket and school ties were some of the items young people in Chesterton buried in a time capsule beneath their new Vision Centre, built on the site of an old Victorian school.

A project devised by a group of 25 young people after the old Horse Chestnut tree in the grounds of their community centre was felled.

Inspired by the archives held at the Lincolnshire Museum of Life, young people explored Lincoln’s history to develop a radio play about life in the First World War.

A group of young volunteers worked with local people to preserve the heritage of North Tyneside's beach resorts.

The Routes and Rhythm project was created by a group of young people who wanted to know more about their cultural heritage through the history of music.