Projects we’ve funded

Volunteers from the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives captured, shared and celebrated the long history of Gloucester Rugby Football Club.

The project involved researching and recording the history of the Palace Theatre and the people who have worked in it.

Inspired by Kent's agricultural heritage, disabled children and young people created a vegetable garden, fruit orchard, and bee and insect sanctuary in their school grounds.

A partnership between a charitable trust and two major museums opened up the heritage of South Asian music and dance to wider audiences.

The project focused on developing the East Midlands section of the National Byway route, a 3,300 mile cycling route that links up heritage sites around England and parts of Scotland and Wales.

This project, at Pontypool Museum, was to conserve the historic museum building and ensure that it is set up to permanently house and display collections.

The project involved changing the previous categorisation of displays at Cartwright Hall from culture, chronology and medium, to the three key themes of People, Place and Imagination. This was to allow a mixture of objects from Europe and Asia, which reflect the common heritage of the people of

Hackney’s oldest building was transformed into a popular visitor attraction, learning space and exhibition venue by a local building preservation trust.

Renamed the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, this museum in the heart of the historic city of Canterbury provides state-of-the-art facilities and has chalked up a range of awards since re-opening in 2012.

Quarry Park was restored as part of this programme to repair and reconstruct the Grade II listed parkland.

National Maritime Museum houses one of the largest and most important maritime collections, set within the former Greenwich Hospital School for Seamen, a complex of Grade I listed buildings.

The Grade I listed building was repaired and renovated, bringing it up to operational standards for audiences and artists.