Projects we’ve funded

The role of spices in shaping local culture, cuisine and customs has been captured thanks to a community history project in Smethwick, Sandwell in the West Midlands.

Volunteers explored and shared nine decades of history through Hadleigh and Thundersley Community Archive’s All Our Stories project.

A project to enhance the visitor experience of one of the few remaining London Southwest Region signal boxes was achieved with wide ranging support from the local community.

This project generated interest from the Canvey Island community and artists alike by creating a mural of the 1953 flood that affected the area.

The Mindful Changes project explores the shifts in public perceptions and attitudes towards mental health over the last 100 years.

The construction of a demonstration light railway has preserved vital engineering skills, and helped young people get in touch with their heritage.

The history of Chinese migrants in Reading, so far undocumented, is now available to all thanks to a heritage project spanning multiple generations.

Young people carried out research at Priest's House Museum, East Dorset, into stories about the village fire of May 1892.

Volunteers from Cawood in Selby have been trained as heritage detectives to investigate the archaeology of their local moated manor site and the surprising importance of gooseberries for the development of the village.

The Dissenters Graveyard in Exeter contains significant physical heritage related to the nonconformist tradition and includes a wealth of family and local history. It has been closed for public access for many years and had become very neglected and overgrown.

Queer Britain created an online film archive featuring women who have made a difference.

This three-year project recorded the oral histories of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland's LGBTQ+ communities, from before partial decriminalisation in 1967 to the present day.