Projects we’ve funded

Five museums and heritage organisations in the south east of England found new ways to engage audiences with their geological collections.

Highgate Baptist Church researched the remarkable life of Peter Stanford, Birmingham’s first black minister.

The lives of young people aged 17-20 at the time of the 1948 London Olympics were compared with young people today, in this 2012 project.

A project to make the Ipswich Town Football Charitable Trust archive more widely accessible, and uncovering the heritage of the club through individual stories and artefacts.

Durham in Time was a three-year project, which provided the opportunity to archive the vast and diverse records that community groups hold throughout the county.

Members of the public are now able to view Van Dyck’s last self-portrait, following a hugely successful campaign to save it for the nation.

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

Held in 2016, the Capability Brown Festival was created to celebrate 300 years since the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown – the ‘Shakespeare of gardening’.

By collecting, preserving and making accessible the many artefacts found in the area, the museum aims to bring the history of Lyme Regis to as diverse an audience as possible.

When it was discovered during local history lessons that a medieval manor house was buried under their classroom, the children of Tinsley Junior School took to archaeology with enthusiasm, some even taking old spoons to set up their own digs in their back gardens at home.

The issue of crime on the home front has often been neglected. This project will focus on the impact of the First World War on crime in Bishop's Stortford and surrounding areas.

A community archaeology project in the village of Rainford, St Helens, Merseyside.