Grants are being made available to fund community-led projects that will celebrate ‘overlooked’ working class histories.

Grants of up to £25,000 are available through Historic England‘s ‘Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories’ for projects that will celebrate the built or historic environment of working class communities. They are, however, keen to fund a number of smaller projects up to £10,000.

The funding will support projects that allow people to share ‘overlooked’ or ‘untold’ stories of the place where they live – from council estates, pubs and clubs, to farms, factories and shipyards.

Eligible applicants include all organisations and individuals including community interest groups, charities, schools and local authorities.

There is especial interest in applications from groups and individuals that are not heritage organisations but which can deliver heritage projects.

Some examples of previous projects that have been funded through this scheme are:

• a project to create a new archive of photographs and oral histories of and by Bangladeshi people living in and around Brick Lane in Tower Hamlets
• a project to celebrate the heritage of boxing clubs around Halifax, West Yorkshire
• a project to produce a film about the lives of working class people in the area during the Second World War
• a project to create a new educational resource for schools about the history of the local working class
• a project to restore a former working class community centre and turn it into a museum.

Proposals must be submitted by 11.59pm on Tuesday 7 November 2023.

For full details, visit the Heritage England Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories webpage.