Projects we’ve funded

After closing its doors to the public and putting its collection into storage, funding from Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Welsh Government enabled the trust to restore this historic building.

Protection of the marine environment received a huge boost along the South East England coastline.

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

Young people from across Nuneaton and Bedworth worked with the local charity, Mercurial Arts, the Borough Council and English Heritage, to create their own unique listing system and identify and record the buildings and sites important to them.

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.

Volunteers explored the legacy of the First World War in Somerset, sharing their discoveries through an archive, website and events.

The story of a historic 19th century town house is being used by a charity to help older people to broaden their horizons.

Our Our Day Out encouraged people to explore the Keith Medley photographic archive based at Liverpool John Moores University.

Brighton’s Royal Pavilion and Museums used HLF funding to save a rare treasure hoard, building a valuable network for local museums in the process.

The Understanding and Celebrating our Roots project explored the historical links between Britain and Somaliland through capturing oral histories from Liverpool’s Somali community.

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) celebrated the life and work of Anthony Burgess, the novelist, poet, playwright, critic and composer born in Manchester in 1917.

Evidence of Roman settlement in Bromborough has been uncovered thanks to a community archaeology project.