Projects we’ve funded

A £46,600 grant allowed a glimpse into the world of Victorian crime and punishment by breathing new life into the nineteenth century courtroom in historic Leeds Town Hall.

Volunteers from the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives captured, shared and celebrated the long history of Gloucester Rugby Football Club.

A volunteer-run charity acquired Grade II* listed Richmond Station in North Yorkshire and transformed it into a self-sustaining heritage and leisure attraction for the local community.

Raising awareness of Scotland’s rural heritage by encouraging and enabling people to discover, explore, share and help protect their local heritage through learning and volunteering.

Secondary school pupils conducted oral history interviews with former tenement residents and recent asylum seekers in Glasgow, bringing different generations and communities together.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) wanted their audiences and offer to better reflect the city’s diversity, and to change the organisation’s culture, putting audiences at its heart.

A derelict Grade II* listed smithery at the heart of Chatham Historic Dockyard was conserved and transformed creating a home for the National Model Ship Collection.

A local museum and archive worked together to reach wider audiences by developing an exhibition exploring the transatlantic slave trade through the papers of a Victorian cotton spinner.

A team of 50 volunteer bat wardens worked to increase the population of horseshoe bats in South Gloucestershire, Bath and North East Somerset through monitoring, habitat management and education.

Inspired by the history of a local park, a youth group researched the heritage of their area and shared this with the wider community.

A group of young disabled people explored the heritage of South Wales to develop a sense of their identity.

Inspired by Kent's agricultural heritage, disabled children and young people created a vegetable garden, fruit orchard, and bee and insect sanctuary in their school grounds.