England, North: delegated decisions August 2023
National Lottery Grants for Heritage
Holgate Shaw Lane Memorial Project
Applicant: The Shaw Lane Foundation ltd
Project description: To create a memorial space dedicated to the former Barnsley Grammar School to display artefacts and school memorabilia. The memorial display will be offered to schools and an annual remembrance event will be hosted.
Decision: Award grant of £9450
A Light That Never Fades
Applicant: Arthur Wharton Foundation
Project description: To produce a short film on the life and career of Arthur Wharton, the world’s first Black professional football player.
Decision: Award grant of £7700
St George's CE Primary School's 150th Birthday
Applicant: St George's CE Primary School
Project description: To run a series of events and activities planned with the pupils, including the creation of a time capsule, a mural and National Sports Week activities.
Decision: Award grant of £10,000
Sharing Somali Heritage
Applicant: Somali Advice link
Project description: To deliver weekly workshops that celebrate Somali heritage and culture and to promote the wellbeing of the Somali community in Manchester.
Decision: Award grant of £9992
Sefton Costal Community Connections Project
Applicant: Valewood Primary School
Project description: To engage students in a local community project highlighting the heritage of the local coastline’s flora and fauna.
Decision: Award grant of £10,000
BAME Women – Cultural dance project
Applicant: Holding-Hands (North East) Community Interest Company
Project description: To promote inclusion and wellbeing through cultural dance performances and activities in Newcastle.
Decision: Award grant of £10,000
Wigton's Industrial Heritage (Looking back to move forward)
Applicant: North Allerdale Development Trust Limited
Project description: To create an exhibition which highlights Wigton as a champion of enterprise and industry. It will showcase traditional trades and work with local artisans who are still continuing them.
Decision: Award grant of £4532
Birtley Community Heritage
Applicant: Skills 4 Work (Gateshead) Limited
Project description: To work with young people across Gateshead to produce two videos that explore Birtley’s war graves, as well as Birtley in the 1900s and the present day.
Decision: Award grant of £4400
Unpicked – Talking programme
Applicant: Sunny Bank Mills Museum and Archive Limited
Project description: To produce a series of talks on textile processes and the collection, and to increase accessibility for visually and hearing impaired visitors.
Decision: Award grant of £9930
It's All a Show: Fairground Showmen, Identity and Mental Health
Applicant: University of Sheffield
Project description: To produce an exhibition exploring the identity and mental health of British fairground showmen, as well as workshops, events and learning materials.
Decision: Award grant of £9999
Vent with the outdoors Minority men's movement for suicide prevention
Applicant: MBS for mental health and Wellbeing for Bame
Project description: To develop a mental health support offer tailored for men, including new activities and outdoor sessions.
Decision: Reject
Preston Guild Lodge Founders Banner Restoration
Applicant: Preston Guild Lodge No.4408
Project description: To restore the lodge’s 1927 banner to preserve for future use.
Decision: Reject
Seeing Kunta Kinteh through Gambian in Hull
Applicant: Bameen cic
Project description: To celebrate Gambian culture by celebrating the story of Kunta Kinteh with activities such as traditional music, dance and storytelling. It aims to increase cultural understanding and social cohesion.
Decision: Reject
Air Conditioning
Applicant: Stokesley Town Hall Trust
Project description: To fit air conditioning in the Main Hall to encourage greater use of the space.
Decision: Reject
Bishop Auckland Street Food Market
Applicant: BACCANALIA FOR CULTURE CIC
Project description: To grow the profile of a Street Food Market that celebrates local food culture. It also provides regular and accessible opportunities for social reintegration to tackle isolation.
Decision: Reject
My Culture, My Heritage – (BAME Youth Cultural short film project)
Applicant: Holding-Hands (North East) Community Interest Company
Project description: To produce a series of sessions with women and girls and produce a short film that captures their cultural identity, heritage and everyday life in the UK.
Decision: Reject
TWBPT Resilience – People, Partnerships, Peers
Applicant: Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust Limited
Project description: To increase resilience and engagement with communities through a five-year Business Plan and the appointment of a Heritage Officer.
Decision: Award grant of £143,863
The Silver Swan – 2023 Project
Applicant: The Bowes Museum
Project description: To restore an 18th-century swan clock and enable it to be used sustainably for public engagement with conservator talks and workshops.
Decision: Award grant of £146,342
Always Been Here
Applicant: Crescent Arts
Project description: To research and interpret the Scarborough Museums and Galleries archive and explore the presence of queer histories.
Decision: Award grant of £29,440
Cannington Shaw Heritage Skills Academy
Applicant: Cannington Shaw Preservation Trust CIC
Project description: To develop the Cannington Shaw Heritage Skills Academy which will deliver a programme of training, skills development and work experience.
Decision: Award grant of £244,661
Crafting Heritage
Applicant: Cartwheel Arts Ltd
Project description: To explore and celebrate the heritage crafts of refugees and people seeking asylum in Rochdale by working with such communities. Co-production opportunities and bespoke training will be offered to emerging craftspeople.
Decision: Award grant of £92,340
Revealing the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail
Applicant: Liverpool Irish Festival
Project description: To build skills and community connections through the creation of a heritage trail and resources with a final project showcase.
Decision: Award grant of £99,590
Working Together: health and wellbeing in museums and heritage organisations
Applicant: Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance CIC
Project description: To provide specialist training in health and wellbeing to museum and heritage staff. As well, to deliver six pilot projects which explore making this work sustainable within institutions.
Decision: Award grant of £249,071
Congolese Traditional Marriage Heritage
Applicant: SALFORD COMMUNITY EDUCATION SUPPORT CENTRE
Project description: To connect immigrants, refugees and people seeking asylum from the Democratic Republic of Congo to their cultural identity and preserve traditional marriage customs by hosting workshops and interviews.
Decision: Award grant of £71,648
1197 And All That: Assheton of Middleton
Applicant: Manchester City Council
Project description: To acquire the Assheton of Middleton collection and enable it to be accessed by a wider range of people through collection work, workshops and learning resources.
Decision: Award grant of £49,947
Whitehaven Heroes
Applicant: Whitehaven Supporters Co-operative Limited
Project description: To collate and record the history of Whitehaven Rugby League Club through oral histories, a dementia-friendly Memories Club and a publication.
Decision: Reject
Thelwall 1100 Festival – a community heritage celebration
Applicant: Thelwall 1100 Festival
Project description: To commemorate and celebrate the history of Thelwall through a festival programme, sustainable legacies around the village and activities to care for their heritage.
Decision: Award grant of £37,651
Rape Crisis – exploring the herstories and futures of the movement
Applicant: Rape Crisis England & Wales
Project description: To produce a sound archive with oral histories of 30 women in the Rape Crisis movement.
Decision: Award grant of £224,757
Project North Star (PNS)
Applicant: Project North Star
Project description: To develop the website to include an interactive section including podcasts and interviews that share Black history in the Northeast.
Decision: Reject
Tenter Frames Restoration and Engagement
Applicant: Otterburn Investments Ltd
Project description: To repair the tenter frames and increase engagement with them through interpretation, workshops and performances.
Decision: Reject
The Last Ten
Applicant: Reform Radio Community Interest Company
Project description: To mark the 10th anniversary of Reform Radio by producing 10 podcasts that research and capture local oral histories in Manchester.
Decision: Reject
Ilkley Moor – Peoples Heritage Project
Applicant: Friends of Ilkley Moor
Project description: To develop and deliver a programme of community engagement on Ilkley Moor, including volunteer days, health and wellbeing walks and educational activities.
Decision: Reject
Jukebox – emblem of youth in post-war Britain
Applicant: Mirador
Project description: To deliver participatory events and activities the explore how the British jukebox was created on the seaside coast of Lytham and Blackpool.
Decision: Reject
St Johns Church Carnaby, Drainage and Future Facilities
Applicant: Joint Council of Carnaby, Grindale and Ergham and Rudston
Project description: To carry out repairs on the church building involving drainage improvements, toilet installation, carpeting and repainting.
Decision: Reject
Docklands Trail Visitor Centre
Applicant: The Docklands Trail
Project description: To increase visitor access by creating new exhibitions throughout the docks that share Bootle and Merseyside’s wartime history.
Decision: Reject
Behind the Facade: Women Crafts People of York
Applicant: Fabrication Crafts Ltd
Project description: To highlight the work of craftswomen in York through a programme of workshops, reaching wider audiences and increasing the resilience of the organisation.
Decision: Reject
H M S Cobra
Applicant: Shipwrecks of the River Humber Area
Project description: To produce a 3D photogrammetry plan of the shipwreck site and to document the building and loss of the ship in photos, video, and historical documents.
Decision: Reject