National Lottery Heritage Grants, 6 March 2024

Morlands and Baily's: Industry and community in Glastonbury

Applicant: Red Brick Building Centre Limited

Project description: To record, share and celebrate the heritage of Morlands and Baily’s, two former factories for sheepskin, leather and suede goods in Glastonbury, Somerset.

Decision: Award grant of £81,169

I Am My Ancestor

Applicant: Healthy Heritage

Project description: This one-year project based in Brent (an Area of Focus) will support heritage engagement amongst young people aged 15 to 25, particularly ethnically diverse groups with little previous experience of heritage activity.

Decision: Reject

The Museum of Transology's 10 Year Anniversary Trans Pride UK Collection & Exhibition

Applicant: Museum of Transology

Project description: To enhance a strong network of museums across the UK, improving collecting activity, creating a more representative archive and providing improved access to trans heritage. Activities will also help to mark the Museum of Transology’s 10th anniversary in 2025.

Decision: Award grant of £249,983

The Shevchenko Library and Archive – A Resource For All

Applicant: The Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain Limited

Project description: To digitise The Shevchenko Library and Archive’s collection, create new publications and deliver a programme of exhibitions, schools outreach, talks and digital content. Project activity will take place cross-territory in London & South, Midlands & East and North areas, and in Scotland.

Decision: Reject

'One Moment in Time': Celebrating the 200-year history of St Peter's Brighton.

Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Brighton, St Peter

Project description: A large capital and activity project which will take place over 12 months, starting in May 2024. The launch of the project will coincide with the bicentenary of the laying of the building’s foundation stone. 

Decision: Award grant of £250,000

Bristol Protest: Colston Statue

Applicant: Bristol City Council

Project description: To complement the Protest display of Colston’s statue at Bristol Museum’s M Shed, this project will deliver a range of activities and enable a greater range of voices to be heard. Outputs include a co-created film show and gallery interactive, seminars and difficult-conversation training for museum staff.

Decision: Award grant of £69,248

102 Not Out – Consuelo's legacy – Marlborough Sports Garden

Applicant: Bankside Open Spaces Trust

Project description: To deliver opportunities for volunteering and enable local people to develop new skills whilst improving a sports garden in Southwark, South London. Capital works include the development of a community hub and café, site-wide greening and heritage interpretation boards.

Decision: Reject

Women in Prison's 40th Anniversary

Applicant: Women in Prison Limited

Project description: To celebrate the 40th anniversary of women-led applicant Women in Prison, exploring the heritage of the national movement to decriminalise women. The project will create new oral histories of women with lived experience of the criminal justice system, including Women in Prison's founders, alongside creating a call to action to shape and influence future policy around female imprisonment.

Decision: Award grant of £201,950

People and Nature Together

Applicant: Commonwork Trust

Project description: This project centres on the management and development of the natural environment of Bore Place, Chiddingstone, Kent, alongside volunteer programmes and educational initiatives.

Decision: Award grant of £247,365

Into the Wild: Reconnecting children with nature

Applicant: Wildwood Trust

Project description: To expand residential facilities at their wildlife park in Devon and run a programme of environmental education.

Decision: Reject

Pioneers of Black British Ballet

Applicant: Libraries Connected

Project description: To produce a touring exhibition that celebrates, and spreads awareness about, the experiences of Black British ballet dancers in the last century. The exhibition will utilise oral histories and images already collected from dancers. The exhibition is being produced by Libraries Connected, Oxygen Arts and up to 24 library services across the country and will tour from October 2024 to October 2025.

Decision: Award grant of £245,500

The arcadias project

Applicant: Fuseperformance Ltd

Project description: To explore environmental and wellbeing themes at Fyne Court, Somerset, a semi-ruined National Trust (NT) property. The project aims to deliver a series of installations on the grounds including immersive trails, visual performances, exhibitions and sculptures as well as workshops and webinars.

Decision: Reject

Building a more sustainable Benjamin Franklin House

Applicant: Friends of Benjamin Franklin House

Project description: This 12-month project involves repairs, resilience activities and feasibility studies towards submitting a delivery grant application.

Decision: Award grant of £250,000

1st Generation Brent Windrush Descendants

Applicant: Revo Seccus Ltd

Project description: To create a three-year annual festival of short films, plays and musical reinterpretations based upon interviews with 30 influential Brent residents. Themes such as school, food, employment and role models will be explored. Residents from India, Pakistan and Africa will also be included in the activities.

Decision: Reject

Memories for the Future

Applicant: Peckham Platform Ltd

Project description: An oral history and activity project to amplify marginalised voices in the area of Rye Lane in Peckham, South London. 

Decision: Award grant of £213,277

National Lottery Heritage Grants, 7 March 2024

The Calibre Story: The First 50 Years

Applicant: Calibre Audio Library

Project description: This charity, which provides audio books to those with print disabilities, is seeking funding for a print and audio book being written about their organisation's history for distribution during their 50th anniversary year.

Decision: Reject

Reaching Rural Communities: The Value of Heritage Assets for Social, Environmental and Economic Well-being

Applicant: The Historic Towns and Villages Forum Limited

Project description: This organisation, based in Oxford, seeks funding for a pilot project consisting of networking events for third sector organisations on the use of heritage assets in smaller towns and villages.

Decision: Award grant of £9,000

Accelerating Fundraising & Delivering Digital

Applicant: National Trails UK

Project description: To increase the organisational resilience of National Trails UK (NTUK) and its members, the National Trail staff and partnerships. The project will accelerate NTUK’s fundraising to strengthen financial resilience and develop digital solutions to foster collaboration between NTUK’s members.

Decision: Award grant of £9,012

Saturday Soup as made by a Saga Woman

Applicant: Five ASide Theatre CIC

Project description: This project focuses on African and Caribbean heritage in the UK, using a variety of activities to engage with the heritage and involve a range of age groups.

Decision: Award grant of £9,082

Lewannick Church and Tower Community Hub (CATCH 22)

Applicant: Parochial Church Council of Lewannick and North Hill

Project description: To install a floor and storage in the church tower to provide additional space for the growing Community Café.

Decision: Reject

Voices of The Ally: Capturing and sharing the memories of those who worked at Banbury's nationally significant Alcan Aluminium Works

Applicant: Banbury Museum Trust

Project description: This project focuses on the industrial heritage of the former aluminium works central to Banbury's social history. Volunteers will be trained to collect and document the oral histories and objects relating to this heritage, and these activities will contribute to an exhibition at the museum as well as a short film using the collected oral histories.

Decision: Award grant of £9,750

The Baby Makers: Making History

Applicant: The Women's Art Activation System

Project description: In collaboration with community partners, Stroud Against Racism and Chalford Parish Local History Society, the project will explore the Museum in the Park’s collections through a maternity and reproduction perspective. Using audio, text and textile crafting techniques, the project aims to collect local reproductive and maternal stories from under-represented ethnic minorities and older people in the Stroud District.

Decision: Award grant of £9,759

Urban Tree Festival 2024

Applicant: Campaign to Protect Rural England, London

Project description: This organisation seeks funding to run their seventh annual Urban Tree Festival.

Decision: Award grant of £9,800

Sherford – Making the Most of Heritage

Applicant: Sherford Community Land Trust Ltd (SCLT)

Project description: To develop SCLT’s capacity and resilience as a community heritage organisation through heritage skills community learning days and the production of a high-level community heritage plan for Sherford.

Decision: Award grant of £9,865

Greening the Green 2023/4

Applicant: Landkey Millennium Green Trust

Project description: To investigate ways of recording the natural heritage of the Green and Landkey and better explain the unique mazzard trees of all the known named varieties to residents and visitors.

Decision: Award grant of £9,957

Nurturing Neurodivergent Communities

Applicant: HARE Forest School CIC

Project description: To deliver heritage craft workshops to neurodivergent children and their families, including simple woodwork, willow weaving, cordage, pottery, natural dyeing, bushcraft, wool crafts and gardening.

Decision: Award grant of £9,996

brick lane history mosaic

Applicant: Christ Church Primary School PFA

Project description: This project will paint a wall mosaic depicting the history of Brick Lane.

Decision: Reject

Lost Garden of Rendle Street – St Peter's Primary

Applicant: St Christopher's CofE (Primary) Multi-Academy Trust

Project description: To renovate a small patch of land in the school grounds as a school garden and outdoor learning area.

Decision: Reject

Kiribati Tungaru Association (KTA) 2024 and 2025 Annual Get Together and Dance Practices

Applicant: The Kiribati Tungaru Association (KTA)

Project description: To hold an annual event based on the KTA Independence Event, offering opportunities for the local community to participate in a series of learning events, interactive activities and social gatherings.

Decision: Reject

Accessing, sharing & recording memories – to ensure their future survival as a key part of our heritage. A memoir-writing project for Forces families to promote health, wellbeing, connection and the effective preservation of personal histories that matter

Applicant: Reading Force

Project description: To record the experiences of those who have served in the Forces and their families. The project will hold two events, working with children from military families through the National Army Museum, and with veterans through the Winchester Military Museums Group.

Decision: Award grant of £10,000

Clean energy

Applicant: The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Saviour Wendell Park

Project description: To install solar panels on the roof of this church.

Decision: Reject

Newham Undocumented

Applicant: The New Black Film Collective

Project description: This project focuses on the heritage of Black Londoners through film, and plans to deliver six events between May and October 2024 to engage Black communities in Newham with archival film material and develop skills in understanding, handling and preserving them.

Decision: Award grant of £10,000

CenturyB4 – REGARD Exhibition

Applicant: CenturyB4 Studio CIC

Project description: This organisation seeks funding to host an exhibition of their couture fashion range and shoot a documentary about couture.

Decision: Reject

Avalon Priory Pleasure Garden

Applicant: Seed of Hope CIC

Project description: To design and replant the gardens in the grounds of the Grade II listed building, Avalon Priory, consistent with a Victorian/Edwardian design. The project will also create interpretation for the public and offer open days throughout the year for the local community.

Decision: Award grant of £10,000

Cinque Ports Project

Applicant: Lifesize CIC

Project description: To support two groups of 10 learning-disabled adults to visit the Cinque Ports and explore the heritage through creative activities, the outputs of which will be shared.

Decision: Award grant of £10,000