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Rossendale Footwear Heritage

Workers of Rossendale Valley’s shoe manufacturing industry

Projects

… but little known history of footwear manufacturing is now being shared for the first time with a wide and diverse audience. The IT Zone is a small CIC that provides IT training and skills programming for unemployed and older people. Its …

Scotland’s Solway Firth is our first Landscape Connections project

Five people, including three children are using nets
Jan Hogarth from the SCAMP Landscape Connections team and our Director for Scotland, Caroline Clark, in Powfoot with young 'Coastodians', Emily, Shane and Jack.

News

… Jan Hogarth from the SCAMP Landscape Connections team and our Director for Scotland, Caroline Clark, in Powfoot with young 'Coastodians', Emily, Shane and Jack. Led by Dumfries and Galloway Council, this long … to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.” Gail MacGregor, Councillor and Leader …

Llwyn Celyn features in Channel 4 series

Llwyn Celyn
Llwyn Celyn

News

… a rare 15th-century building in the Black Mountains – and now, medieval manor Llwyn Celyn is set to feature on a brand new Channel 4 programme exploring its past and restoration. The Restoring Britain’s Landmarks series …

England, London & South: delegated decisions January 2025

Publications

… The Iris Project Project description: To develop a new and permanent exhibition area within the Rumble Museum at Cheney School. Curated by students and the wider community, it will tell the stories of local … and usable by the local community and its visitors, now and for the future. Decision: Award grant of £58,213   …

Volunteers good practice guidance

Publications

… learn about the types of activities volunteers can do and how to plan and develop volunteering opportunities. It also includes … Council for Voluntary Action Northern Ireland’s Volunteer Now The UK government and devolved administrations also …

How volunteers are powering a historic railway

A group of people in high-vis standing around a table converted from an old railway wagon
A behind the scenes tour of the newly renovated Boston Lodge. Credit: Chris Parry.

Stories

… 05/06/2025 Boston Lodge shows that investing in people and skills can inspire visitors, boost volunteering and … we needed a plan for seeing those relationships through. “Now if someone goes for a ride on one of our trains, from the … Lodge tour where they’ll learn from other volunteers. Then, if at the end of it they think ‘yeah, I want to become …

England, London & South: delegated decisions December 2024

Publications

… ‘Iguanodon’. A festival map is to detail an art trail and mark the national #Iguanodon200 events and museums where … excite conversations about history, identity and belonging now and into the future. Decision: Award grant of £249,590 … and the site transferred into that charity. The focus is then to conserve the heritage at the cemetery, care for the …

Growing community connections with natural heritage

A group of Trees for Cities volunteers pose for the camera during a tree-planting session
Volunteers planting trees. Photo: Saoirse Clohessy.

Stories

… in the North of England are celebrating local nature and putting people at the heart of plans to protect and restore it. Through a range of activities, the projects … However, the criss-crossing rivers, bogs and wetlands have now been replaced by a densely populated urban area. Sow the …

HLF celebrates 15 years of funding heritage in the capital

News

… of funding heritage in the capital 12/05/2009 Heritage and community groups in boroughs across the capital are … reflect the thousands of other hidden histories of people now in the seventies and eighties who in the early 20th … memories of the older people in their community. They will then work with a professional script writer to devise a …

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