Projects we’ve funded

Kent Orchards for Everyone has brought together the local community and orchard experts to help restore and conserve 13 traditional orchards, saving this important natural heritage for the future.

Rescued from the Sea aimed to excavate and rescue what is left of the Bronze Age cemetery site, and underlying Neolithic and Mesolithic deposits, at Low Hauxley, Northumberland before they are eroded into the sea.

The Green Howards Regimental museum received almost £1million to redevelop its galleries and put on a series of family activities.

Public interest in the Staffordshire Hoard has been unprecedented. A temporary display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery attracted more than half a million visitors in 12 months.

B-type Battle Buses restored to working order, using last known surviving B-type parts, and incorporated into London Transport Museum's (LTM) permanent collection.

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

From the architecture of Robert Adam to the fashion of Bill Gibb, Scotland has an outstanding creative heritage stretching back centuries in studio, industrial and technological design.

This three-year project aims to conserve the natural and cultural heritage of Bretton’s Ancient Woods, and the woodland heritage skills associated with their historical use.

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

The Scottish Waterways Trust’s Canal College project helped young people and their local canal heritage.

Our £780,800 grant will help restore a famous main-line steam locomotive based on the Keighley and the Worth Valley Railway.

Opened in 2017, The Sill is the Landscape Discovery Centre for the Northumberland National Park.