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… Boatshed Trust Award Given £198500 The Grimsay Boatshed and Am Bàta received a Skills for the Future grant to provide … local schools. The project involved young people building and repairing small boats and learning about local styles and … one-year posts in oral history training in Plockton have now been completed and the excellent work compiled by Colin …

… Leicester Applicant Leicester Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Centre Award Given £49900 This three-year … recorded the oral histories of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland's LGBTQ+ communities, from before partial … following oral history research. The exhibition is now permanently on display at the Leicester Lesbian, Gay, …

… Seawilding – restoring native oysters and seagrass in Loch Craignish Danny Renton (left) and members of the Seawilding team with their National … Restoration of Marine and Coastal Habitats (CROMACH). He now leads a team of seven with support from 60 volunteers who …

… led by the Friends of Rhyddings Park, Newground Together and Hyndburn Borough Council. The treasured  Rhyddings Park , … to a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, it’s now back to its best and helping people in Oswaldtwistle to better manage their …

… Sharing the social history of women from 1900 to now Young women made vintage clothing based on the oral … Young women from different ethnic backgrounds investigated and learned about the changing role of women over the past … will be beneficial and great for the future.” The Mothers Then and Now project focused on the social history of women …

… Monkton Local Authority Wiltshire Applicant Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Award Given £10000 The project is identifying and recording the stories of Arctic convoy veterans. During … ‘suicide missions’ suffered high casualties. The veterans, now in their late 80s and 90s will have their portraits and …

… a famous main-line steam locomotive based on the Keighley and the Worth Valley Railway. 45596 Bahamas was used … Midland and Scottish Railway between 1934 and 1948 and then by nationalised British Railways until 1966. It ran more … the future of this 1934 Jubilee class 45596 Bahamas is now assured and its dedicated volunteers hope the engine will …