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Chesterton Vision - A Classroom with a View 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 …

Desh - Homeland The project aims to bring together several generations of South Asians living in Bristol to identify and record their heritage. Desh means Motherland or Homeland in Hindi and Urdu. Desh recruited young British Asian volunteers to collect …

Patrin (Gypsy signposts project) Patrin focused on recording gypsy heritage through GPS mapping, photography and oral history interviews. Patrin is the old word for the signposts the Romany Gypsy community left for other travellers as they moved around …

2010 - One Hundred Years of The Empire Theatre at Ewood, Blackburn The Empire Cinema in Blackburn was one of the first purpose-built cinemas in the UK. This project celebrated the centenary by capturing memories of cinema goers and the story of how it was …

Heritage Heroes of Yesterday and Today A still from the Suffragettes video, created by the South West Youth Parliament South West Youth Parliament members took part in a project to learn about people who campaigned for change in their communities and in …

Lindisfarne Gospels Durham, 2013 and beyond This project was to host the Lindisfarne Gospels and St Cuthbert Gospel at Palace Green Library in Durham. The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript gospel book, created in a monastery on Lindisfarne …

Completing Kettle's Yard An HLF grant enabled Kettle’s Yard to create greater public access and improve the care of the collection. Kettle’s Yard was created by Jim Ede, who was the first curator of modern art at the Tate Gallery. In the 1950s, four …

Invertebrate Challenge Hoverfly identified as part of the Invertebrate Challenge project. Credit: Field Studies Council Do you know your annelids from your arachnids? This training project aimed to increase the number of people skilled in recording …

Grotto Restoration - Education Project Participants in period dress welcoming people to Painshill Park, Cobham Painshill Park Trust returned a breathtaking crystal cave to its 18th-century glory. The essential restoration of a shimmering, crystal-lined …

Lancaster Priory organ replacement Children learning about a pipe organ in a workshop Lancaster Priory acquired a historic organ and held a series of public activities. Lancaster Priory and Parish Church in St Mary's Gate, Lancaster, is part of the …