Projects we’ve funded

Women’s Health in South Tyneside spent a year discovering the profound role women playing during the First World War in their area.

The diaries of a wartime teenager were returned to her village community so they could discover her story.

The focus of the project was to ensure the survival and maintenance of this important vessel for maritime heritage.

The Wordsworth Trust will co-ordinate the transformation of the literary heritage site at Dove Cottage in the Lake District.

Volunteers recorded residents' memories to create a trail around their local park

The project offers people experiencing mental health problems, particularly depression and anxiety, the opportunity to connect creatively with heritage.

The history of the pioneers of Birmingham’s Bangladeshi-owned ‘Indian’ restaurants was uncovered and shared through an immersive exhibition, events, website and book.

Never Going Underground: the fight for LGBT+ rights’ was an award-winning exhibition developed by LGBT+ volunteer community curators and staff at People’s History Museum in Manchester.

Norwich is home to the largest collection of medieval churches in Northern Europe. This project shared their stories with new audiences through a three day, city-wide event.

Following the unexpected discovery of a Late Bronze Age tanged chisel and knife blade, a rapid archaeological assessment identified the site as an extremely rare, intact Bronze Age burial mound at Bolton-le-Sands.

The story of a historic 19th century town house is being used by a charity to help older people to broaden their horizons.

Local people investigated how the conflict in Europe affected the community of Basildon in 1916.