Projects we’ve funded

Metroland researched and shared the story of Amersham-on-the-Hill during the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Railway.

The Firing Line Museum, located in Cardiff Castle are running a project focusing on collections connected to the First World War held by project partners, Cardiff Story Museum, Glamorgan Archives, Western Front Association and Cardiff University.

One of the South Coast’s principal art galleries, Pallant House at Chichester has seen attendances increase significantly since work was completed on a new wing in 2006.

Young people from Chesterton changed their attitude to their neighbourhood by uncovering its Roman past.

Young people in Hampshire gained research skills, collected oral histories, created films and curated an exhibition.

The Hadhari project recorded memories from a local African-Caribbean care group in Derby, which were at risk of being lost forever.

This landscape-scale project is conserving and interpreting the valued habitats and active industrial heritage of the Inner Forth area.

Volunteers use photography and artwork to connect to the life of a notable natural historian.

The Portsmouth Museums and Records Service encouraged local community groups to explore their family, community and local history.

Finchingfield Guildhall in Essex was on the Buildings at Risk Register until National Lottery funding helped secure its restoration.

Slough Roots enabled women from English, Asian and West Indian backgrounds to research traditional healing remedies still used in the UK today.

Sussex schoolchildren were introduced to stoolball, a medieval forerunner of cricket, in a wide-ranging sport and rural history project.