Children and young people
Since 1994, we are proud to have invested over £60million across the UK in projects working with children and young people. This includes the £10m Kick the Dust programme.
We are committed to supporting greater inclusion, diversity, access and participation in heritage – including for younger generations. We know that children and young people can play a significant role in creating innovative and exciting heritage projects that speak to them.
Explore some of our work below and find inspiration for your project, then discover whether your idea is eligible for funding.
![Discovering Their Footsteps School children watching as poppy plaques are created by an artist](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/fw-15-00883_discoveringtheirfootsteps2.png.webp?itok=kjharXHw)
Projects
Discovering Their Footsteps
Pupils at North Primary School discovered and shared the stories of former students who fought during the First World War through two HLF-supported projects.
![Jane Austen Walks A group of young people in front of a wall](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/jane_austen_walks.png.webp?itok=NbsYaBjC)
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Jane Austen Walks
A student-led project created a mobile phone app that updates a Jane Austen walking trail in Hampshire to mark 200 years since the author’s death.
![Panjab Connections Handmade gold jewellery with red and green gemstones displayed on an intricately carved stand](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/panjab_connections_-_credit_kat_gollock.jpg.webp?itok=Aw9-QowA)
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Panjab Connections
National Museums Scotland worked with the Glasgow Gurdwara and Sikh Sanjog to explore Sikh heritage through the history of the boy Maharaja.
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Sharing heritage skills to create woodland futures in Scotland
The Woodland Futures project connected young people aged 11 to 18 years old with the natural heritage sector by learning rural skills and heritage crafts.
![Young people working on the exhibition Young people working on the exhibition](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/2016_eyst_0.jpg.webp?itok=KxZCP9sK)
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Chips, Curry and Cappuccino - the Diverse Food Heritage of Swansea
The Ethnic Youth Support Team led on a project to discover, record, and appreciate Swansea's multi-cultural food heritage.
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WoodWorks - Young people revealing the history and realising the potential of Scotland's woodlands
Young people celebrated the heritage of Scottish woodlands by learning traditional wood-based skills and developing woodland-based enterprises.
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Engaging communities to enhance urban greenspaces in Cumbernauld
Young people from local secondary schools in Cumbernauld have been reconnecting with nature to learn about the town's valuable greenspaces.
![50 Years of MPA Participants logging archive materials](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/mpa_alumni_session_with_archive_2_-_12.1.16_-_compressed.jpg.webp?itok=lEOQvY93)
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50 Years of MPA
Mid Pennine Arts (MPA) is looking back through their archives to help celebrate its 50th anniversary.
![Old papers to go in the memory boxes Ardgowan Primary school memory box](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/ravenscraig_memory_boxes_64_2_-_2.jpg.webp?itok=IFAiUizK)
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Touching Memory
Touching Memory created memory boxes for people with dementia that explore the everyday life of people living in Inverclyde from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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Mental health treatment for young people: past, present and future
The Mental Health, Past, Present, Future project is exploring the history of mental health treatment for young people.
![Bridge to the Future Two volunteers in Roman costume](/sites/default/files/styles/hlf_xlarge/public/media/projects/yr-14-04356_roman2_jpg.jpg.webp?itok=4YqmVmJ-)
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Bridge to the Future
Young people from Chesterton changed their attitude to their neighbourhood by uncovering its Roman past.
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Commemorating the contribution of Polish aircrew during the Second World War
Young people in Slough led a heritage project to commemorate the stories of Polish aircrew in the RAF to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.