Cultures and memories

An HLF Skills for the Future grant enabled the CBA to offer year-long workplace learning bursaries.

The Marine Graduate Training Programme provided work-based training in marine conservation and community engagement for recent university graduates.

A community archaeology project in Windermere will uncover the site of a former Second World War housing complex used to house child Holocaust survivors.

A project focusing on Bill Naughton, Bolton’s most famous and successful writer, 25 years after his death.

Recording the culture of the Kashmiri community in Greater Manchester through the collection of memories.

Telling the previously hidden histories of women in Manchester who worked in the male-dominated spheres of policing, transport and politics.

Focusing on the raving landscape between 1985 and 1995, this project has created the Lapsed Clubber Heritage Map

YouthLink Scotland worked with five youth groups to celebrate Scotland’s forgotten women and research the achievements of influential women in their communities.

Pride in the Past explores and celebrates the LGBTQ+ heritage and archaeology of the city of Chester.

Local people investigated how the conflict in Europe affected the community of Basildon in 1916.

The story of a historic 19th century town house is being used by a charity to help older people to broaden their horizons.