Projects we’ve funded

The Norris Museum, home to a treasured collection of artefacts relating to the history of Huntingdonshire, has been restored.

A partnership of heritage organisations used a Collecting Cultures grant to collect the work of local people.

This project, supported by our Collecting Cultures fund, brought together museums across Wales with local treasure-hunters, improving long-term relationships and collections.

This project allowed the museum to be more adventurous, deepen relationships with community partners and seek out new audiences for more contemporary collections.

Volunteers from the Scottish Pipers Association researched the tunes and stories behind the Pipers of the First World War, including the iconic image of the Piper leading the soldiers into battle.

Volunteers used the Otley Museum archives to create a digital map showing the address of every person on the town’s war memorial.

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

As part of the All Our Stories programme, young people focused on the heritage of the coal and steel industry of South Yorkshire and were empowered to tell the local story of industrial decline.

Meaningful relationships were built with local communities and diverse experts in this Collecting Cultures project, which saw new ways of working trialled and access widened.

Through workshops and visits, children from Salesbury School used archives to find out how the First World War affected boys living in Blackburn Orphanage.

Women from Small Heath, Birmingham came together to learn more about the little-known story of female factory workers in the First World War.