A Chiltern Open Air Museum volunteer at work Matt Clayton
Projects
Tomorrow's Heritage
Chiltern Open Air Museum received a Skills for the Future grant from us to offer training for people to build careers in heritage.
Projects we’ve funded
Heritage can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations.
Explore the inspiring projects we’ve funded and help inform your own application.
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- discover the breadth of heritage we fund
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Projects
The Geoffrey Train
Young people, historians and artists explored court cases of criminalised homosexuality in 1950s Bristol.
Barclay Park has been restored with support from the National Lottery and local community
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Barclay Park and Lake restoration
The Friends of Barclay Park were awarded funds to carry out extensive restoration work to the park and lake with support from the local community.
Young people clearing and maintaining paths
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Sharing heritage skills to create woodland futures in Scotland
The Woodland Futures project connected young people aged 11 to 18 years old with the natural heritage sector by learning rural skills and heritage crafts.
Zena McAllister leads a First World War walking history trail in Killyleagh
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Killyleagh Remembers: sharing local Catholic and Protestant stories of war
Catholic and Protestant communities were brought together in this project investigating the impact of the First World War on the local area.
One of the young participants demonstrates wartime medical techniques to a young visitor
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Wartime Medicine and Innovation
Young people investigated the medical developments from the First World War and the impact they have on their lives today.
Free to be Me, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Freedom Youth
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Freedom Youth: the first 20 years
Freedom Youth is Bristol's oldest LGBT youth group. They marked their 20th anniversary by recording and interpreting the stories, memories and experiences of past members.
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Chinese Heritage
A first for the West Midlands, Chinese Lives in Birmingham was created to capture the hidden histories of Birmingham's Chinese community.
Children at the Bradford YMCA Tea and Remembrance project
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Tea and Remembrance: Bradford YMCA’s First World War project
Within days of the outbreak of the First World War, the YMCA had established 250 tea huts in the UK providing refreshments for soldiers heading to war. As the war progressed, these huts evolved to serve hospitals, POW camps and training centres.
Arthur Wharton, Victorian Sporting Superstar comic
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The Arthur Wharton Heritage Project
This project told the story of the UK's first professional black footballer, with free educational resources exploring Arthur Wharton's heritage.
An illustration by Walter Crane for the story of Puss in Boots
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The Three Bears 'and other English Tales'
Young people from refugee communities discover the pastimes of Victorian children through nursery rhymes brought to life by Walter Crane.
One of the project workshops
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Black on Both Sides: The Black British and Colonial Contribution to WW1
Young people from British African and Caribbean backgrounds looked at the role of black people who served on behalf of both the Allied and Central powers during the First World War.