Jeanette Wilmer sketch over photo
Stories
'A feeling of belonging': heritage and mental health
We discover how exploring the history and landscapes of Burgh Castle in Great Yarmouth is helping people's mental health.
Inclusion
John Durrant
Stories
How heritage helped John reconnect to the world
We hear from a participant of a National Lottery-funded project that uses heritage to help people living with mental illness – even during lockdown.
Julian Dobson
Stories
Looking closer at the Space to Thrive report
We spoke to Julian Dobson, a researcher for our Space to Thrive report into the impact of parks on health, wellbeing and society.
Blogs
Kick the Dust - what we learned in year two
Four years ago, we set out to change the way young people are involved in and experience heritage.
News
Boost for youth heritage thanks to £7million government investment
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is to distribute an extra £1.27m funding to its Kick the Dust programme, aimed at helping to involve young people in heritage.
Blogs
Inclusion isn't a 'challenge', it's a chance for exciting possibilities
Two disabled women leaders tell us what needs to change in heritage - and their top advice.
Stories
Pride and prejudice: stories of love against the odds
The National Lottery-funded Colour of Love project captured the poignant stories of mixed-race couples and their families in 1940s–1970s Nottinghamshire. Here are some of our favourites.
Blogs
Eulogy - telling the stories of first generation Jamaicans
It was losing my father Hermerde in September 2017 and the funeral of one of his closest friends exactly a year later that inspired the Eulogy project.
Stories
After Windrush - telling stories of struggle and celebration
Why did you want to make this film? I had the idea for about 25 years. I'm an African-Caribbean British Yorkshireman. I was born here, raised here. I saw my mother and father go through racism, I went through it at school. Then when I came out of the military, I couldn’t even get a job, people were
Blogs
Finding 'a home' in the heritage sector
Working as a black person in the heritage sector can be isolating. Connecting with peers has been essential.
Blogs
Every voice matters - collecting black stories
A few months into his new role, Nasir Adam explains what he's doing to bring the museum together with black communities across Wales.
News
UK's oldest children’s charity to tell the story of care
Coram has received a £1.26million National Lottery grant to digitise part of its archive, which dates back for nearly three centuries.