Projects we’ve funded

Trained volunteers supported people with learning disabilities to explore the industrial and social history of Winlaton in Gateshead.

The Friends of Churchfield, Denby Dale have created a wildlife haven and public amenity on their doorstep.

The Pennines are known as the 'hills that shaped the modern world' and with their 1,000-year history of rural and industrial heritage, their story has now been documented and preserved forever through a £573,400 project.

The World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre (WCEC) at the British Museum was launched in 2014 to help the museum care for the most fragile parts of its collections.

The project aimed to engage new audiences for the Pre-Raphaelite Collection, and record their interaction with the paintings.

A fascinating view of Bath’s Georgian history has been opened up thanks to the restoration of No 1, Royal Crescent.

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

Playing an internationally important role in the heritage of astronomy, Jodrell Bank is the single surviving site that shows the whole story of the invention of radio astronomy right through the space age.

The project focuses on the 100-year history of St Bede Primary School, the first county school in Winchester.

People in Cardiff and Newport recorded the memories of those who lived and worked at Ely Hospital, a controversial institution for people with learning disabilities.

This project focused on actively engaging local community groups and schools in Portsmouth City Council’s internationally important Conan Doyle Collection.

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