Projects we’ve funded

The Celebrate project will collect memories, stories, photographs and objects in order to explore the heritage of LGBT communities in Cumbria.

The project explored and commemorated the significant contribution made by Muslim soldiers in the British Indian Army in the First World War.

Telling the previously hidden histories of women in Manchester who worked in the male-dominated spheres of policing, transport and politics.

Focusing on the raving landscape between 1985 and 1995, this project has created the Lapsed Clubber Heritage Map

A community archaeology project in Windermere will uncover the site of a former Second World War housing complex used to house child Holocaust survivors.

This six-month project explored the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activism and liberation from 1960 to 2000.

A project focusing on Bill Naughton, Bolton’s most famous and successful writer, 25 years after his death.

The Pepperpot Project focused on the restoration and heritage of a dilapidated folly.

Recording the culture of the Kashmiri community in Greater Manchester through the collection of memories.

Three hundred school children across East Anglia became Vikings for three days when they learnt about life during Viking times.

This project created an online database of records held by the British Red Cross on volunteers during the First World War.

A rich social archive was preserved for future generations thanks to a community history project across the Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands.