National Lottery Grants for Heritage
Women of Words Dorset
Applicant: Valise Noire Storytelling Theatre
Project description: 'Women of Words Dorset' will contribute to redressing the imbalance of female voices absent in history.
Decision: Award grant of £10,000
Windrush Legacy Book
Applicant: Enfield Caribbean Association
Project description: To produce a Windrush legacy book, a series of filmed interviews, and a photographic exhibition to commemorate the Windrush generation.
Decision: Award grant of £9,900
Global Histories
Applicant: World Education Berkshire
Project description: To work with a group of ten history teachers in Reading to develop projects to ensure that schools give a contextualised understanding of British history which includes pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial African and South Asian history.
Decision: Award grant of £9,900
Heritage Restoration/Congo Great Lakes Initiative
Applicant: Congo Great Lakes Initiative (CGLI)
Project description: To work with volunteers to create and manage a formal collection for the organisation.
Decision: Award grant of £9,100
Think Global Live Local: 21 Voices
Applicant: West London Film and Media CIC
Project description: A series of projects that bring together different generations, different communities and their history.
Decision: Reject
Ancient Yew Tree Preservations
Applicant: All Saints PCC Farringdon, Hampshire
Project description: The ancient yew tree in All Saints churchyard in Farringdon is, according to one of the UK’s leading arboriculturists, “one of the most important trees in the country”. The project will involve regenerating the compacted earth beneath the tree.
Decision: Reject
Extending St Michael's to the wider community
Applicant: St Michael's Stanton Harcourt
Project description: To make the church building and the churchyard more welcoming and relevant to the village community and visitors.
Decision: Reject
Gurkha messing facility
Applicant: British Army
Project description: To build a Gurkha messing facility on camp at Worthy Down. It will be a series of basic huts containing cooking facilities, basins, seating and lighting.
Decision: Reject
Playground of Possibilities
Applicant: BIGKID Foundation
Project description: Launching in April, 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance, a community-initiated cultural programme will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Brixton Uprisings.
Decision: Award grant of £10,000
Restoration of the Historic Sweetland Organ
Applicant: St Mary's Church Kingswood
Project description: To carry out the first ever full restoration and conservation of the William Sweetland organ built and installed in the Kingswood village church in 1868.
Decision: Reject
Studio Salvage - Supporting London’s Creative Community
Applicant: Studio Salvage CIC
Project description: Supporting London-based creatives from lower-socioeconomic backgrounds with a strong focus on those from further under-represented and under-served communities such as creatives from BAME & LGBTQIA+ communities and creatives with disabilities.
Decision: Reject
St. Edmund’s RC Primary: Proud History, Bright Future
Applicant: St Edmund’s Catholic Primary School
Project description: To restore pride in the local area, with a renewed focus on the school's values, after a period of uncertainty and change.
Decision: Award grant of £10,000
The Via Francigena Extension
Applicant: Confraternity of Pilgrims to Rome
Project description: To get people back outside, to learn about the heritage of their area, and to help boost local economies, especially in the off-season, by the creation of a unified and well developed walking and cycling route from central London to Canterbury.
Decision: Reject
Restoration of Listed Porch
Applicant: Inkpen Pre and Primary School
Project description: Inkpen Primary school is in a school house which dates back to 1877 when it was built for the local estate workers' children. The old part of the school is listed and the porch, which is the fire exit and exit to the school garden, would be restored.
Decision: Reject
Visible People, Visible Places
Applicant: Bloomsbury Festival
Project description: The focus is on participation of residents of Bangladeshi origin in Bloomsbury who, with their neighbours, will research and display the history of Bangladeshi people's arrival in the area from 1960s onwards.
Decision: Award grant of £38,000
Celebrating the Deaf Academy's Heritage
Applicant: PaddleBoat Theatre CIC
Project description: Students will create a film, filmed by a D/deaf filmmaker and a published book co-created with a D/deaf illustrator. A public exhibition will be held at the Academy and resources will be widely shared online and via social media channels.
Decision: Award grant of £75,800
Soho Poly Theatre: Supporting Future Generations
Applicant: University of Westminster
Project description: To recover, preserve and disseminate the intangible heritage of the Soho Poly, one of the most important alternative theatre venues of the post-war period.
Decision: Award grant of £88,300
'All the Fun of the Fair' - the Heritage of Mitcham Status Fair
Applicant: Digital Drama
Project description: To look at the role of fairgrounds in society and the variety of entertainments on offer over the years. With 30 volunteers, this project will record the 30 new oral histories of showmen and fair-goers to be preserved for future generations.
Decision: Award grant of £67,400
The Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) in WWII
Applicant: Learning Through the Arts CIC
Project description: This project is about inclusion. It seeks to bring recognition to contributions and sacrifices made by African colonial soldiers as part of the British Empire during WWII.
Decision: Award grant of £54,000
St Just Ordinalia 2021
Applicant: St Just and District Trust CIO
Project description: To perform, in September 2021, large-scale community productions of all three Cornish ‘Ordinalia’ mystery plays in their original outdoor setting: St Just's Plen-an-Gwari - an ancient monument and the oldest working theatre space in Britain.
Decision: Award grant of £15,000
BRLSI 2.0 - building on generations of Bath collectors and inspirations
Applicant: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Project description: The digital powered revitalisation of the Bath Royal Literary Scientific Institution.
Decision: Award grant of £90,800
Celebrating Sephardic culture - focussing on the tradition of Hamin, a festive celebration food
Applicant: Chazak Ltd
Project description: This project will explore new ways of opening to the public including innovative socially distanced events, developing digital materials and online workshops for Chazak's BAME community.
Decision: Award grant of £62,600
Protest and Progress 21/23: stories from industrial Oxford
Applicant: Film Oxford
Project description: Young people, facing considerable economic and social barriers to opportunity, will work with a heritage tutor and digital artist to produce responses to photographs, film, sound archive, artefacts around three areas: Migration to Industrial Oxford; Women and Trades Unions and the Pergamon Press strike.
Decision: Award grant of £58,200
G7 Kernow - Cultural Programme
Applicant: Cornwall Council
Project description: G7 Kernow’s Cultural Programme will be an opportunity to promote the UK’s world-class creative industries and heritage to a global audience through a programme of activity in the country’s leading creative rural region.
Decision: Award grant of £149,200
Poet on the High Street: a community heritage project for Winchester
Applicant: Winchester Poetry Festival
Project description: A community heritage poet-in-residence programme, running from May to November 2021.
Decision: Award grant of £9,100
The Road Less Travelled: Ten Heritage Walks in Bath
Applicant: Bath Industrial Heritage Trust
Project description: To engage residents in ten districts of Bath in the creation of heritage walks, through research, personal contribution and oral history recordings. The walks will be presented in printed and downloadable form.
Decision: Reject
Southwark Young People Skills & Jobs Programme
Applicant: Southwark Dynamos Football Club
Project description: Southwark Young People Skills & Jobs Programme focuses on restoring confidence among young people to create skills they can take into the working world and become a success in their community.
Decision: Reject
The Common Room
Applicant: The Age of No Retirement CIC
Project description: The Common Room (TCR) is an innovative service model available to communities across the UK via supported licence.
Decision: Reject
Conserving the heritage of St Day and providing a community facility
Applicant: St Day Old Church
Project description: To ensure that the significant heritage importance of St Day Old Church (abandoned in the 1950s and without a roof) can be maintained.
Decision: Award change in percentage from 52% to 54%
From Victorian Gap Year to Community Hub: Heritage and Community at Oxford House
Applicant: The Oxford House in Bethnal Green
Project description: Showcasing the hidden stories and strands of community life since 1884 and interpreting this history in a range of formats that will be widely accessible, within the House and beyond.
Decision: Award change in percentage from 51% to 54%