Projects we’ve funded

Barnsley LGBT forum have uncovered previously untold histories to create a digital education pack, documentary and local history trail.

The role of spices in shaping local culture, cuisine and customs has been captured thanks to a community history project in Smethwick, Sandwell in the West Midlands.

The Grimsay Boatshed and Am Bàta received a Skills for the Future grant to provide traditional boatbuilding workshops to local schools.

This project was to host the Lindisfarne Gospels and St Cuthbert Gospel at Palace Green Library in Durham.

An HLF grant enabled Kettle’s Yard to create greater public access and improve the care of the collection.

Local Sheffield woodlands conserved and consolidated for the benefit of local communities and wildlife.

A partnership project to improve wellbeing for participants in an innovative volunteering programme in Manchester.

Inspired by the discovery of the minute book of the Eighteenth Century Good Humour Club, the Laurence Sterne Trust explored the club’s mission to ‘promote laughter and good humour as a means of living a full, long and happy life.'

This partnership training scheme provided opportunities for people to take on work-based placements across the South West Wildlife Trusts.

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.

Cornfield Flowers – Into the Community is an innovative approach to bridging the gap between community awareness and nature conservation.

Pupils at North Primary School discovered and shared the stories of former students who fought during the First World War through two HLF-supported projects.