Projects we’ve funded

The Indepen-dance Members Stories project explored personal histories of members with learning disabilities and explored the history of disability in Scotland more widely.

An oral history project recording the memories and experiences of people who moved from Bangladesh to Birmingham between 1940 and 1971.

The Fire station project will help to regenerate the Sunderland city centre as part of a wider project to create a music, arts and cultural quarter

The Patrick Geddes Centre has opened in Riddle Court, in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town, to provide an educational programme based on Sir Patrick Geddes’ approach to learning.

No game for girls explored how First World War munitionette football teams drew crowds of thousands before they were banned after the war by an anti-women’s football campaign.

After closing its doors to the public and putting its collection into storage, funding from Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Welsh Government enabled the trust to restore this historic building.

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.

During the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act in 1967 which partially decriminalised homosexuality, the local Doncaster LGBT+ community have shared their experiences over the years in a poignant film.

A nature reserve was created at Eycott Hill in North Cumbria to preserve the natural environment of the area.

The project focused on the exploration of maps and local archive material to illustrate the inter-generational journeys of people, from different cultural backgrounds and communities, who now live in Fareham.

A partnership project to improve wellbeing for participants in an innovative volunteering programme in Manchester.

Inspired by the discovery of the minute book of the Eighteenth Century Good Humour Club, the Laurence Sterne Trust explored the club’s mission to ‘promote laughter and good humour as a means of living a full, long and happy life.'