Projects we’ve funded

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) joined forces with independent school Building Young People's Potential (BYPP) to help 103 young people in alternative education learn accredited skills and become ‘Green Giants.’

Young people from Lincolnshire explored their area's rich built heritage and gained an insight into traditional building skills.

Recording the culture of the Kashmiri community in Greater Manchester through the collection of memories.

Focusing on the raving landscape between 1985 and 1995, this project has created the Lapsed Clubber Heritage Map

A community archaeology project in Windermere will uncover the site of a former Second World War housing complex used to house child Holocaust survivors.

As Weymouth Sailing Club reached its 100th anniversary, a group of volunteers undertook a project to celebrate and share local sailing heritage.

Our Our Day Out encouraged people to explore the Keith Medley photographic archive based at Liverpool John Moores University.

Slough Roots enabled women from English, Asian and West Indian backgrounds to research traditional healing remedies still used in the UK today.

The Friends of Raikes Road Burial Ground reconnected people with the wildlife and local stories housed in the burial ground.

Young and older people worked together to record the history of this 100-year-old agricultural show, which has traditional rural activities at its heart.

Chiltern Open Air Museum received a Skills for the Future grant from us to offer training for people to build careers in heritage.

In 2010 and 2012, the National Lottery Heritage Fund supported the Sustaining Traditional Building Skills in Northern Ireland project.