Projects we’ve funded

Young women from different ethnic backgrounds investigated and learned about the changing role of women over the past 100 years.

A team of volunteers received training to survey, document and conserve small ancient woodlands for the benefit of local communities.

Founded in 1872, Llanelli Scarlets Rugby Football Club is one of the oldest in the world and a source of passionate local pride.

Inspired by the discovery of the minute book of the Eighteenth Century Good Humour Club, the Laurence Sterne Trust explored the club’s mission to ‘promote laughter and good humour as a means of living a full, long and happy life.'

Nostell Priory engaged the community with a compelling programme telling the stories of the men who died in the First World War and those that survived, with an invitation to research their own ancestry and add to a message wall.

Rotherfield Millennium Green Trust worked with Rotherfield Primary School to introduce local children to the heritage of their local landscape.

Brighton’s Royal Pavilion and Museums used HLF funding to save a rare treasure hoard, building a valuable network for local museums in the process.

This volunteer-focused project produced a guide to encourage diverse ethnic communities from urban centres to visit the South Downs.

Young people in Hampshire gained research skills, collected oral histories, created films and curated an exhibition.

Beat Routes enabled young people to discover the history of recording music in the 20th century, experimenting and recording with pre-digital technology.

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) joined forces with independent school Building Young People's Potential (BYPP) to help 103 young people in alternative education learn accredited skills and become ‘Green Giants.’

Twenty young people, aged 14-19, researched the lives of Bolton soldiers who had died during the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.