Midlands and East

Volunteers investigated the impact of the First World War on the people of Leicester and shared their research through exhibitions, school workshops and online.

Volunteers researched the history of The Croft in Nottingham, a non-institutional home for lone mothers during the 1960s and 1970s.

A pair of peregrine falcons inspired a community project managed by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.

Highgate Baptist Church researched the remarkable life of Peter Stanford, Birmingham’s first black minister.

A project to make the Ipswich Town Football Charitable Trust archive more widely accessible, and uncovering the heritage of the club through individual stories and artefacts.

An oral history project recording the memories and experiences of people who moved from Bangladesh to Birmingham between 1940 and 1971.

The Hadhari project recorded memories from a local African-Caribbean care group in Derby, which were at risk of being lost forever.

This project aimed to increase understanding of the historic environment of Peterborough’s City Centre Conservation Area.

FARI archaeology, a constituted community group, applied for this grant to investigate, record, and protect an internationally important Ice Age hunting site.

The project celebrated 100 years of the Women’s Institute (WI) in the Isle of Ely.

This project was based around a dress collection that was gifted to City College Peterborough.

The aim of The Family Adams Project was to develop a community archive of a Victorian shop found in the historic heart of Littleport town.