Projects we’ve funded

The Swansea Chinese Community Co-op Centre led a 12-month project to explore the experiences of Chinese immigrants in Swansea and surrounding areas.

Manchester Chinese archive trained volunteers to record, preserve and share a community’s hidden history.

This intergenerational project explored links between work and leisure, focusing on the Rotherham mining industry and football club, during the 1940s and 1950s.

Communities explored the impact and legacy of the First World War, the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising by creating two exhibitions.

Young people researched 50 years of Caribbean music and culture in Bristol and shared their findings via radio, film and online.

Designed to connect learning disabled people with their heritage, this project delivered a training programme, website and exhibition, sharing the social history of learning disability in an accessible way.

Volunteers from Come Alive at 55 helped transform a derelict Victorian kitchen garden into a working example of historic techniques and food varieties.

A fascinating view of Bath’s Georgian history has been opened up thanks to the restoration of No 1, Royal Crescent.

Three hundred school children across East Anglia became Vikings for three days when they learnt about life during Viking times.

A project focusing on Bill Naughton, Bolton’s most famous and successful writer, 25 years after his death.

Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation restored Deane Road Cemetery to become a self-sustaining learning resource and site of interest.

A church organ with rare and historically important connections, including Georg Frederick Handel, has been fully restored and its heritage explained.