Projects we’ve funded

The Whitworth Art Gallery has catalogued and conserved the Walter Crane archive, creating a digital archive and a children’s website.

The Charleston Regained project has safeguarded the heritage of Charleston Farmhouse, meeting place for the Bloomsbury Group, for generations to come.

This project repaired the last fully sailing Thames trading barge, and converted her into an educational resource.

Rhythms of the Tide was a project which aimed to enhanced Chichester Harbour, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

This project facilitated the acquisition and conservation of the Grade II*-listed Priory House in Dunstable.

The probate records for the Church of England Diocese of Durham, deposited at Durham University Library, date from the mid-sixteenth century to 1858.

Monkwearmouth Station Museum is housed in a Grade II-listed building, under ownership of Sunderland City Council.

This project has renovated and refurbished Manchester’s Victoria Baths, regarded as Britain’s finest historic municipal swimming pool.

The Museum of London has one of the largest urban history collections in the world, and this project has helped re-design and re-furbish them for future audiences.

The Textile Museum in Newtown gives visitors a chance to see how the handloom weavers of the mid-19th century lived and worked.

Founded in 827, Polesworth Abbey served as a Benedictine nunnery and now functions as the parish church for Polesworth village.

Fulham Palace, a residence for Bishops of London for 1,300 years, has been restored and its public profile raised.