Projects we’ve funded

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

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

Cardiff People First delivered a two year project working with people with learning disabilities from predominantly BAME cultural backgrounds, to learn about Welsh heritage in both Newport and Cardiff.

The archive project engaged new audiences with social heritage in Slough, especially those from South Asian communities.

A Sense of the Past researched and recorded the first social history of blindness in Northern Ireland, covering the period from the 1800 to the present day.

The origins of traditional Indian games, the rules and how they changed after players traveled to the UK, were recorded in this intergenerational oral history project.

The project celebrated 100 years of the Women’s Institute (WI) in the Isle of Ely.

Eastbourne Ancestors focused on providing greater intellectual and physical access to the Eastbourne Museum Service’s human skeletal collection.

Hundreds of local people took part in a community archaeology project at Polesworth Abbey, near Tamworth.

For the Zebedee Troupers – Abled Not DISabled project, young people with disabilities discovered the role disabled people played during the two world wars.

Through a combination of funding from Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Worcestershire County Council, Bromsgrove District Council is enabling a range of repairs and conservation works to regain Bromsgrove's historic character.