London Delegated Decisions July 2018
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Heritage Lottery Fund Schedule of Decisions under delegated powers to Deputy Director of Operations on Thursday 5 July 2018 Sharing Heritage Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision Children’s learning resources and older This project will establish learning resources United Kingdom Punjab learners resources during Award Grant of £9,700 1. for children and Punjabi-speaking older Heritage Association Empire of the Sikhs (62%) people alongside a planned exhibition. exhibition The A-Z of women This project will celebrate the ground- inventors and innovators breaking innovations of four women from Eastside Community Heritage Award Grant of £9,900 2. from East London East London, with the aim to inform and (60%) inspire audiences of all ages. Sharing Somali heritage at A project which will run a series of events as Kayd Somali Arts & Culture 3. Somali Week Festival 2018 part of the 10th annual Somali Week Reject Festival. Milestones: cultural This arts-based heritage project will bring together a diverse group of participants from Newham Community traditions of births, 4. East London, who face barriers to Renewal Programme Reject marriages and deaths participation, to explore their diverse cultural heritage. Celebrating the centenary of the first British How The Vote Was Won - women to be granted the vote, we plan to tour a new exhibition titled 'How The Vote Aurora Metro 5. Suffragette Project Reject was Won' which explores how women used the arts in their campaign for the right to vote. A project to give a voice to BAME, disabled and LGBT+ heritage by publishing ten Unheard Echoes WFWellComm CIC 6. relevant biographies in the Waltham Forest Reject Echo. Half the biographies will be drawn from existing recordings from the 1 Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision Workshop's archive, the other half will be from new oral histories recorded by volunteers. First World War: then and now Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision The Military Cooking and This project will explore the cooking, diet and recipes of British soldiers during WW1, Stroke & Aphasia Minorities Dietary on WW1: Meals and Award Grant of £9,800 1. with reference to heritage research and the Support Group Ltd (98%) Recipes War Officer Manual of Military Cooking and Dietary. This project will focus on 7 hospitals located Military hospitals during the in Hammersmith and Fulham, and WW1 in Hammersmith and surrounding boroughs, and research Congo Great Lakes Initiative Award Grant of £9,900 2. Fulham, and surrounding conditions of soldiers when they were (CGLI) (99%) boroughs. brought in, criteria of being sent to different hospitals and the load of work for hospital staff and how they did cope. The men and women of this A project to restore the war memorial in the The Parish Church of St parish who served in the churchyard of St Paul's Goodmayes and 3. Paul's Goodmayes Reject great wars research the people listed on a memorial plaque in the church building. Our Heritage Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision Wonder Women: 100 Years This project focuses on two centenaries: the Woodford County High of Women's Lives in right for (some) women to vote in 2018 and Award Grant of £27,100 1. School Redbridge the centenary of Woodford County High (100%) School in 2019. A project comprised of a series of events GROVE PARK, THE The Baring Trust 2. that will focus on Grove Park’s little-known Reject WRITERS AND THE role in WW1 featuring the wartime 2 Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision GREAT WAR - associations of its past residents, architects Propaganda, Poetry and and authors. Postcards This will be an oral history of London's Brass Tally Men: An Oral dockers focussing on the fascinating history digital:works Award Grant of £43,800 3. History of London's Dockers of the people who worked on the docks of (99%) London from the 1930s up until the closing the of the docks from the 1970s. Laying the Foundations - This project will widen reach and public the Barbican Guildhall engagement in the rich history of the Barbican Centre Trust Award Grant of £65,400 4. Archive Barbican Arts Centre and Guildhall School (73%) of Music & Drama. In partnership with youth volunteers and Building a British Identity other stakeholders, the project will identify Africa Caribbean and record migration heritage stories and 5. Heritage Project Development Foundation Reject engage with specific migrant communities to identify events and activities of past importance to them. Our project will focus on the oral history of Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Culture House Arts and Muslim Asylum in Britain Somalia and Middle East who were given 6. Media Limited Reject asylum in Britain in the1980's and 90's, and settled in North Kensington and surrounding areas. Working with three partner organisations Give: Volunteering for (Natural History Museum, Horniman Museum and Valence House Museum); this UCL Culture Award Grant of £90,000 7. Wellbeing project will make inaccessible heritage more (89%) accessible by harnessing wellbeing amongst volunteers. 3 Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision This interactive digital oral history The Secret History of documentary project will create up to 30 hitherto unrecorded oral histories and use The Digital Story Company Walthamstow Wetlands: A 8. interviews, archives and photographic CIC Reject Digital Oral History Project records to illustrate people’s relationship with Walthamstow Wetlands over the last 100 years. Our project will focus on highlighting the role They Came Before Us: that women of colour have played throughout London’s history. We will run a History of Women of Colour Collage Arts 9. series of practice-based workshops with Reject in the UK young women to develop creative responses to five significant women of colour. North Kensington Archive This project will collect and catalogue the Raphael Samuel History community response to the Grenfell Tower Award Grant of £99,700 10. and Heritage Project Centre fire alongside working with local volunteers (100%) to explore the heritage of the local area. Unearthing the Sephardim. The return of an exiled This project will explore the heritage of Sephardi Jews arriving in London in 1656 Pascal Theatre Company 11. Jewish community to Reject after the 1492 expulsion from Spain and English soil Portugal by the Inquisition. Our Heritage Cross Territory Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision Thalidomide Stories – an This project will aim to interview 46 thalidomide survivors over the course of two oral history project with Award Grant of £98,600 1. and a half years. This will involve training Thalidomide Society (91%) thalidomide survivors thalidomide survivors and other Society members to interview each other. 4 Young Roots Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision A Hidden History: African This project will record the lives of African History Matters Reject Women in Britain 1930- women who migrated to, or were born in 2000 Britain, during the 20th century. Many of 1. these women were (and continue to be) employed in the healthcare sector, so we will focus on women of continental African heritage who worked in the NHS. Dining Out in London and The Fortune group of young refugees will Pan intercultural Arts Award Grant of £45,900 history research the story of dining out in London, (87%) exploring how society has moved from 2. primarily eating at home, to today’s plethora of restaurants representing the edible heritage of the world. Resilient Heritage Item Project Title Project Description Applicant Decision Chiswick House and This project will involve Chiswick House and Gardens: Towards a fully Gardens Trust taking crucial steps towards integrated, inclusive and achieving its original purpose as embodied Chiswick House and Gardens Award Grant of £85,000 1. self-sustaining Grade I in the ambitious Five Year Objectives that Trust (90%) Listed site have been set for the organisation for 2018 - 2023. 5 .