Examples of projects which explore the UK’s sporting heritage
Project title: Paralympic Memories
Applicant: Carousel
Grant awarded: £9,300
Sixteen young people from St Luke’s and Downsview schools in Brighton will re-tell the hidden history of learning disabled athletes in the international Paralympic Games. The young participants will make a film combining animation with archival footage from the Paralympic and BBC archives.
Project title: Our Sporting Life in Milton Keynes
Applicant: Milton Keynes Council
Grant awarded: £50,000
Milton Keynes Council is working in partnership with the National Badminton Museum, Milton Keynes Museum, Living Archive, and MK Dons, to enhance access to sporting heritage collections in the local area. The project will include an exhibition of material largely hidden from view and events at venues chosen by the public.
Project title: White City, Black Country
Applicant: National Youth Theatre of Great Britain
Grant awarded: £50,000
The National Youth Theatre is looking at the role played by the Black Country in the Olympic Games. Younger and older people will research and learn about the area’s cultural, social, industrial and sporting heritage focusing on the 1908 and 1948 London Games (the latter popularly known as "the Austerity Olympics").
Project title: Cambridgeshire Competes 2012
Applicant: Cambridgeshire County Council
Grant awarded: £47,000
Cambridgeshire County Council is working in partnership with museums and sports centres across the county to deliver an exhibition trail on the history of the Olympic Games. There will also family and adult events based on the Olympic theme.
Project title: Much Wenlock Museum Redevelopment Project
Applicant: Shropshire Council
Grant awarded: £520,800
Shropshire Council's Museums Service is refurbishing the Much Wenlock Museum. Due to the heritage connections with the modern Olympic movement through William Penny-Brookes there will be increasing focus on the town and museum in the lead up to the 2012 Games.
Project title: Manchester YMCA Sporting Heritage
Applicant: Manchester YMCA
Grant awarded: £34,100
Manchester YMCA is exploring its sporting past through archival research and oral history interviews with older members of the YMCA, carried out by young people from All Hallows Sports College. Volunteers and the school pupils will share their learning with the wider community through a website, DVD and exhibition.
Project title: West Yorkshire – Our Stories
Applicant: City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council (West Yorkshire Archive Service)
Grant awarded: £158,200
West Yorkshire Archive Service is helping community groups to gain the skills that they need to undertake high quality archive projects. As part of this, communities that do not currently use the archives are recording the oral histories of sporting heroes. This element of the project has been awarded the
London 2012 Inspire mark.