Community heritage

Volunteers have revitalised and restored Scarborough's cemetery for local communities to discover the stories of those buried there.

In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury bringing the very first migrants from the Caribbean to settle in Britain. There are many in the Watford community who arrived then, or in the ten years that followed, in what has subsequently become known as the “Windrush Decade”.

Queer Britain created an online film archive featuring women who have made a difference.

This inspiring community heritage project explores the fascinating lives of Carlisle’s ‘Cracker Packers’ through the ages.

Barnsley LGBT forum have uncovered previously untold histories to create a digital education pack, documentary and local history trail.

During the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act in 1967 which partially decriminalised homosexuality, the local Doncaster LGBT+ community have shared their experiences over the years in a poignant film.

Trained volunteers supported people with learning disabilities to explore the industrial and social history of Winlaton in Gateshead.

A community-based project in Castle Point worked with people with mental health problems, dementia and learning disabilities to create a garden.

Volunteers from Cawood in Selby have been trained as heritage detectives to investigate the archaeology of their local moated manor site and the surprising importance of gooseberries for the development of the village.

The history of Chinese migrants in Reading, so far undocumented, is now available to all thanks to a heritage project spanning multiple generations.

This project generated interest from the Canvey Island community and artists alike by creating a mural of the 1953 flood that affected the area.

Rotherfield Millennium Green Trust worked with Rotherfield Primary School to introduce local children to the heritage of their local landscape.