Investing in heritage of diverse ethnic communities

The Sickle Cell Stories project is capturing and sharing stories of sickle cell disease in the west midlands, paving the way for positive change.

The Meridian Society and documentary filmmaker Peng Wenlan collected oral histories for a documentary about the Chinese men who worked as labourers on the Western Front during the First World War.

Newham Chinese Association are gathering oral histories of 20 Malaysian nurses who arrived to the UK to work for the NHS from the 1950s onwards.

We’re helping the UK’s first safe space for LGBTQ+ people of South Asian heritage to preserve and showcase their history dating back to 1995.

This project aims to explore the migration-driven arrival of the Sari in the city's South Asian community.

The Roma Heritage Project will work with local people in Manchester to share traditional dishes and record oral histories from Roma communities.

People from different cultures and backgrounds came together for workshops and celebration events about Roma and Irish Traveller cultural heritage organised by Armagh Roma Traveller Support.

This pilot project trained volunteers including young Roma people to record heritage and ran a Roma cultural heritage festival.