Volunteers tend to rose garden.
Projects
Saughton Park restoration project
The improved historic park in the south west of Edinburgh provides vital support for the community's wellbeing.
Projects we’ve funded
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Marie-Claire Kofi, seated right, hopes her organisation's project will empower people who have sickle cell disease.
Projects
Sickle Cell Stories - Then and Now: Plasma of Hope
The Sickle Cell Stories project is capturing and sharing stories of sickle cell disease in the west midlands, paving the way for positive change.
Billy Meredith's cap from the Scotland vs Wales match in 1910. Credit: Wrexham Museum.
Projects
A Museum of Two Halves: Wrexham celebrates football and community heritage
Wrexham’s museum is bringing football heritage back to its historic home in Wales thanks to a £2.7million award.
The Leicester Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. Photo: Hollis Photography UK.
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Sharing Jewish Heritage in Leicester
Restored and improved spaces are helping the historic Leicester Hebrew Congregation Synagogue welcome everyone.
Casting a bell at Taylor's Bellfoundry. Photo: Katelyn Collins.
Projects
Saving the UK’s last major bellfoundry
We helped Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust restore and improve the site, secure the future of the historic industry in Britain and redevelop their museum.
Inside the new shipbuilding gallery which is showcasing the area's rich heritage.
Credit: The Dock Museum.
Projects
Sharing Barrow's past, present and future
The Dock Museum in Barrow-in-Furness has undergone a major refurbishment to celebrate the area’s rich shipbuilding and engineering heritage.
Newbridge Memo welcomed BBC Radio Wales to host Wynne Evan’s Townhall Showdown. Credit: Newbridge Memo.
Projects
Newbridge’s arts and heritage hub safeguarded for the community
This historic miners’ institute, with its 1920s Art Deco theatre, ballroom and versatile spaces now hosts a variety of activities that benefit local people.
The museum takes to the streets in Sheffield. Photo: courtesy of Bloc Projects / Harcourt Road Project.
Projects
Harcourt Road: parallel histories in Sheffield and Hong Kong
A mobile museum is collecting stories of activism, identity and placemaking across two streets 6,000 miles apart.
The front of Peterson's following restoration.
Credit: The Peterson's Project.
Projects
Securing a future for iconic buildings at Grimsby Dock
The Peterson’s Project has restored two important buildings of fishing heritage to their former glory following National Lottery support.
Exhibition and collection items on display in the new building at Salt Mills.
Credit: The Peace Museum.
Projects
Bradford’s unique museum exploring peace moves to Saltaire
The Peace Museum has made its collection more accessible in its new permanent home at Salt Mills in Saltaire, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Young people take part in a movement and performance workshop as part of the Catalyser learning programme.
Photo: Hunter Gatherer.
Projects
Choreozone: Activating an Archive
Clod Ensemble is celebrating and sharing the lived experience of performance artists, improving access to the collections and inspiring a younger generation.
Members of the Chinese Labour Corps.
Photo: W J Hawkings Collection, courtesy of John de Lucy.
Projects
Forgotten Faces of the First World War: The Chinese Labour Corps
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.