Projects
Birkenhead's 'Black Chair' Centenary Festival: Community Engagement Project
This project focuses on one of the most poignant histories of the First World War: Birkenhead's 1917 'Black Chair' Eisteddfod.
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The Coedpoeth War Memorial Park gates have been restored
Projects
Gateway To Our Heritage - Mynedfa i'n Treftadaeth - Coedpoeth War Memorial Centenary Project
Led by Coedpoeth Community Council, this project was designed to discover more about the names listed on Coedpoeth War Memorial and restore the War Memorial Park gates.
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Proud to be Derbyshire – A pictorial history celebrating the heritage of Derbyshire CCC
The Cricket Derbyshire Foundation created a visual archive to promote the heritage of cricket across Derbyshire.
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Rossendale Footwear Heritage
The Rossendale Valley's fascinating but little known history of footwear manufacturing is now being shared for the first time with a wide and diverse audience.
Women working in Carr's biscuit factory
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Celebrating the Spirit of the Cracker Packers
This inspiring community heritage project explores the fascinating lives of Carlisle’s ‘Cracker Packers’ through the ages.
Husband and wife, Angela and Adam. Credit: Mencap Cymru W
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Our Social Networks: Capturing the nature of friendship and intimacy for people with learning disabilities
This Mencap Cymru project captured the history and nature of friendships and relationships experienced by people with a learning disability in Wales.
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Ditchling Museum Development Project
The Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft used the Heritage Grants programme to fund a project to revamp its collections and premises.
Examining one of the Land Girl's uniforms
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'Feeding the Nation': A Celebration of the Women's Land Army
Yorkshire Museum of Farming worked with volunteers to create an exhibition for their previously unseen Women’s Land Army Collection.
First World War soldiers in uniform. Photo: Tynemouth World War One Commemoration Project.
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Tynemouth World War One Commemoration Project
Volunteers and local residents have gathered information on 1,700 local men from Tynemouth, all of whom died in the First World War.
Children in Prague on their way to Windermere in the Lake District
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From Troutbeck Bridge to Treblinka
A community archaeology project in Windermere will uncover the site of a former Second World War housing complex used to house child Holocaust survivors.
View of Runcorn Hill Park's heathland
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Runcorn Hill Park
Restoring and revitalising a park for the whole community.
Limnerslease House, home of artists G F and Mary Watts Watts Gallery Archive
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Catalyst Endowment: Watts Gallery
Securing funds for an endowment aimed to provide income in the long term to support two posts, that will help the Watts Gallery Trust to manage the heritage.