Heritage Lottery Fund
Schedule of Decisions under delegated powers to Head of HLF London on Wednesday 09 December 2015
Our Heritage
Project Title
1
Purchase of the 'East View of the
Cataract of Niagara' for public display
2
Changing Minds
3
Virtual Shoes - community made
exhibitions on lives across time and
cultures
Indigenous East African Cultural
Weaving and Costume-Making Crafts
Tradition
Exploring Childhood in North Camden
4
5
7
Exploring Shakespeare's influence on
Indian films & British Asian Theatres
Why We Remain
8
Our Canal Our Heritage
9
Restoration of Rare Spurden-Rutt
Church Organ
Navigating The Dreams Of An Icon Remembering Cy Grant Through His
Archives
UK Armenians & the FIrst World War
6
10
1
2
"Meeting in No Man's Land" British &
German descendants share heritage
from The Great War
Project Description
The applicant proposes to acquire and display a rare eighteenth
century watercolour by the military surveyor Thomas Grant Davies.
Applicant
The National Army
Museum
Decision
Award Grant of
£50,000 (33%)
This project will record the oral histories of local LGBT people's
experiences with mental health problems.
A project working with people to explore the history of the area and
relating it to personal stories of migration and immigration.
Redbridge Rainbow
Community
Claque Theatre
Award Grant of
£62,800 (98%)
Reject
This project will explore the subject of indigenous East African textiles
and weaving from 1930 until today.
AUCUK
Reject
The project will focus on childhood in Swiss Cottage since 1935,
exploring sub-themes of recreation, education and celebration
including religious festivals.
A project to exploring Shakespeare's influence on Indian film and
British-Asian theatre.
A project that will capture and share memories of London-based
British Malaysians.
This project will engage with the ways in which waste has been
managed on West London's canal ways since the 1800s.
Towards a project that will restore an R Spurden Rutt & Co organ,
returning it to use from its currently unplayable state.
A project exploring the life of Cy Grant, ranging from his career as an
RAF navigator to his work with broadcasting and his time as an
important community campaigner.
This project will explore and record the heritage of British Armenians
during the FWW, creating a new resource of oral histories and online
information.
The Winchester
Project
Award Grant of
£50,600 (100%)
Apsara Arts
Reject
River Cultures
Festival
Groundwork South
Trust Limited
All Saints Church,
Highams Park
CY Grant Trust
Reject
Centre for Armenian
Information & Advice
Award Grant of
£73,100 (100%)
This project will explore the different legacies and experiences of the
First World War in Britain and Germany, through a meeting of elders.
Age Exchange
Theatre Trust
Limited
Award Grant of
£83,900 (93%)
Reject
Reject
Award Grant of
£79,800 (100%)
Transition Fund
Project Title
11 Preparing to Manage Pitzhanger
Manor
12 SS Robin- A New Direction
Sharing Heritage
Project Title
1
Journey of Positive Change
2
How Mrs Tealby's Stables Became
Freightliners City Farm
3
Exploring our past- Jewish Heritage of
the years 1930-1950 in the Stamford
Hill area
'Kings Cross Remix': uncovering the
LGBT histories of 1980s London
through conversation
Learning from History
4
Project Description
The project aims to develop the skills and infrastructure the Trust
needs in order to take over the ongoing management of Pitzhanger.
A project to identify a viable future for the ship, allowing a 360°-degree
review of options available.
Applicant
Pitzhanger Manor
Trust
SS Robin Trust
Decision
Award Grant of
£78,700 (72%)
Award Grant of
£95,500 (100%)
Project Description
An inter-generational project to record people's memories of their
locally-listed premises, which has a history dating back to Victorian
times.
The project will explore the history of Freightliner's Farm and the site it
occupies.
Applicant
Waltham Forest
Community Hub
Decision
Reject
Freightliners Farm
Limited
Reject
This project focuses on the underexplored heritage of Stamford Hill's
Charedi community from 1930s-1950s.
Teen Action
Award Grant of
£9,900 (88%)
Camden People's
Theatre
Award Grant of
£7,400 (90%)
Third Sector
Potential
Reject
Three Faiths Forum
Reject
Hackney Historic
Buildings Trust
Nu Social Health
Enterprise
Community Interest
Company (NUSHE)
The Royal Star &
Garter Homes
Museum of London
Archaeology
Award Grant of
£9,900 (99%)
Reject
6
What Women Believe - Oral History
and Visual Arts Project
7
Lower Clapton Heritage
8
What Were You Doing When They
Made Newham?!
This project uncovers the hidden histories of the Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transsexual (LGBT) communities in central London
during the 1980s.
This project will research past atrocities and genocides from around
the world to explore what can be learnt from these to help prevent
similar intolerances occurring today.
The project will engage with the often underappreciated contributions
of women leading and helping to build faith communities within North
London.
A project which will work with local volunteers to research and map
the heritage of Lower Clapton.
The project will explore the history of Newham, specifically Stratford,
and wider contextual heritage over the last 50 years.
9
The Royal Star & Garter Homes'
Commemorative Centenary Book
The MOLA Time Truck - Capital
development and pilot programme
2016/2017
A project to produce a hardback publication and e-book that marks
100 years of the charity.
A project to seek funding to purchase and fit out a ‘Time Truck’,
enabling them to run a pilot project to extend and develop their
existing engagement and education services.
5
10
Reject
Award Grant of
£8,700 (9%)
11
Project Title
Young stars for Heritage
12
This Is Not A Gateway Living Archive
Young Roots
Project Title
1
The Impact of Colonisation on Kenyan
Community
2
Brixton in Bricks and Mortar: 100
Years of Dwellings, Public Buildings
and Parks
First World War – then and now
Project Title
1
British connections to the Brazilian
participation in the First World War
2
First Surrey Rifles Archive
3
4
Different Perspectives: Archaeology
and the Middle East in World War
One
Women in Work
Project Description
A project to engage young volunteers with the lingala language and
the history of throne succession in the Kongo Kingdom.
A project to digitise and catalogue their archive relating to social
change in east London.
Applicant
The Kimbanguist
Hope of the World
This Is Not A
Gateway
Decision
Reject
Project Description
A project proposing to explore the impact of the colonisation of Kenya,
and the subsequent changes brought about by independence.
This project will explore the history of Brixton's architecture and open
spaces over the past century in relation to its social and hidden
histories.
Applicant
Great Commission
Ministries
Tomorrow's
Generation
Decision
Reject
Project Description
This project will focus on the interesting and underexplored theme of
Brazil's late FWW involvement in support of Britain.
This project will explore the involvement of a local regiment during the
FWW, focusing on the experiences of 4 soldiers
This project will research the work of the archaeologist Flinders Petrie
to explore archaeology and the Middle East in the First World War.
Applicant
King's College
London
Southbank Mosaics
CIC
UCL Museums
Decision
Reject
This project, based in a priority borough, will work with current
army wives to explore the roles of women in the First World War, and
through archival research create a book and digital exhibition.
Bounce Theatre
Award Grant of
£9,500 (94%)
Award Grant of
£7,900 (31%)
Award Grant of
£47,400 (100%)
Award Grant of
£9,400 (99%)
Award Grant of
£8,400 (84%)