Projects we’ve funded

As part of the 2017 Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology, this project celebrated traditional outdoor life in the Scottish Highlands.

The Indepen-dance Members Stories project explored personal histories of members with learning disabilities and explored the history of disability in Scotland more widely.

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

The Pontlottyn Communities First Partnership led a 12-month project to raise awareness and educate people about Edward Chapman and how Pontlottyn survived and developed during the Second World War.

Young people connected with their circus heritage through archive investigations and oral history interviews, and brought their discoveries to life in performance, an exhibition, website and project newspaper.

Young women from different ethnic backgrounds investigated and learned about the changing role of women over the past 100 years.

Young people recruited through Stockton Council’s Youth Service worked with Preston Hall Museum to research local stories relating to the First World War and shared them with the local community.

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

Beat Routes enabled young people to discover the history of recording music in the 20th century, experimenting and recording with pre-digital technology.

Young people learned about ancient Welsh music and were taught how to use modern digital devices to create their own new compositions.

When it was discovered during local history lessons that a medieval manor house was buried under their classroom, the children of Tinsley Junior School took to archaeology with enthusiasm, some even taking old spoons to set up their own digs in their back gardens at home.

A community archaeology project in the village of Rainford, St Helens, Merseyside.