Projects we’ve funded

Manchester Chinese archive trained volunteers to record, preserve and share a community’s hidden history.

Persecution and survival helped participants piece together the social history of refugees living in Oxford during the Second World War.

Heritage can be found in unexpected places and the inner city Leeds area of Little London boasts one of the widest range of communities to be found anywhere in the city.

Cornfield Flowers Project has a clear mission to save rare plants in north-east Yorkshire’s arable fields by engaging local people.

The Grade I-listed St Dunstan’s Church, often referred to as the ‘Cathedral of the Weald’, has been opened up to a wider audience.

Young people explored the heritage of boxing in London's East End, including the social impact on the local community and its relationship to gangs and crime, ethnic identity and the entertainment scene.

Young people with learning disabilities practiced a variety of ancient crafts and shared new skills with their wider local community through a traditional fair.

Young people from across Nuneaton and Bedworth worked with the local charity, Mercurial Arts, the Borough Council and English Heritage, to create their own unique listing system and identify and record the buildings and sites important to them.

Young people in Tredegar explored the history of a local memorial plaque through creative work and film-making.

Young people worked in teams to create new interpretation, helping shape the way visitors engage with the Richmond Borough Art Collection in the future.

Letters to themselves to be read in fifty years’ time, a Stoke City FA Cup Final ticket and school ties were some of the items young people in Chesterton buried in a time capsule beneath their new Vision Centre, built on the site of an old Victorian school.

Young people worked with a community arts organisation to discover the medieval heritage of their local area and build a stronger sense of community cohesion.