Projects we’ve funded

This year-long heritage learning project celebrated and promoted the rich cultural life of the LGBTQ+ community in Brighton and Hove.

An oral history project recording the memories and experiences of people who moved from Bangladesh to Birmingham between 1940 and 1971.

Volunteers celebrated the work of Scottish nurses and doctors during the First World War.

This project focused on the life of Walter Tull, the first black player for Tottenham Hotspur FC and one of the first black soldiers to have served as an officer during the First World War.

Slough Roots enabled women from English, Asian and West Indian backgrounds to research traditional healing remedies still used in the UK today.

The Yemeni Roots project captured the story of the Yemeni community in Eccles through a variety of oral history interviews, reminiscence work and creative art.

This ambitious restoration project helped return the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds to its original glory.

Rescued from the Sea aimed to excavate and rescue what is left of the Bronze Age cemetery site, and underlying Neolithic and Mesolithic deposits, at Low Hauxley, Northumberland before they are eroded into the sea.

A series of creative workshops for schools, young people and patient groups ran alongside Out of Clay, an exhibition of Roman, Medieval and 20th-century pottery at Milton Keynes Hospital.

The area of Gorton, situated to the south east of Manchester, celebrated its centenary of joining the City of Manchester through the Gorton 100 project.

Local people were engaged in uncovering and interpreting the history of a community-owned island.

The project explored and commemorated the significant contribution made by Muslim soldiers in the British Indian Army in the First World War.