Projects we’ve funded

They developed a range of accredited skills and created a performance and exhibition.

Young people from inner city Sheffield explored their local natural heritage and produced a photography exhibition for the wider community.

The Canal & River Trust’s Waterways Heritage Skills Project created a pool of committed and skilled young people in waterway heritage skills, filling skills gaps within the Trust’s own workforce and the wider heritage sector.

Thanks to a heritage grant, the Garden Museum supported a number of innovative traineeships designed to boost sector skills.

LGBT Foundation recorded the memories of people involved in and affected by safer sex campaigns from the 1980s to the present day.

The programme has protected and restored some of the Forest of Dean’s most at-risk natural, built and cultural heritage and connected the community with its forest.

On a mission to use heritage to give young people a voice, this project worked with diverse ethnic communities in Birmingham and the Black Country.

The Churches Conservation Trust has revitalised a historic church, turning it into a vibrant venue for culture, heritage and learning known as Seventeen Nineteen.

The museum without walls creating footsteps between people and places.

Volunteers have been vital to the Groundwork-led restoration of Rivington Terraced Gardens in Lancashire.

This innovative project explored ways to enable blind and partially sighted people to access the Edinburgh College of Art’s historic textile collection, which spans over three centuries.

Getting people talking and creating an archive of African-Caribbean community identity in Scotland was at the heart of the Windrush Scotland project.