Funding for Young People to Explore and Celebrate Their Local History

Shared Stories will celebrate musical and cultural histories across Bradford. Young people will conduct interviews and research before creating musical and audio responses. These new works will be shared via QR codes around the local area. Part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.

Canal to Garden will engage young people in Greater Manchester to uncover and celebrate the hidden history of local canals and flora through hands-on gardening, historical research, and creative expression. It will result in a heritage garden that tells the story of our local environment.

A diverse team of young, early-career creatives is at the heart of the Platform Panel Project. They'll create new panels for station platforms in St Leonards-On-Sea that respond to local history alongside zines and audio interpretation.

The young people at Masjid Ibrahim, a mosque in Newham, want to explore and document the history of their mosque and the people connected to it. They will interview community elders and create a series of podcasts and video reels. Young people will commemorate their work physically through a mural at the masjid, which will act as a portal to the digital content created.

Young people from the Byker estate will be exploring the origins of this ground-breaking housing development and considering how the past can inform the estate's future. Their findings will create a new mural and shutter designs on community-run buildings at the heart of the estate.

Peterborough has been perceived as lacking a distinct identity. This project seeks to create a deeper connection to local cultural history by creating an art trail across the town. Words and artwork will appear across the city to spark dialogue and celebrate the overlooked histories of under-represented young people.

LGBTQIA+ young people in the rural Staffordshire Moorlands are often very isolated. This project will bring them together to explore local queer history. Young people will work with an artist to co-create a placemaker celebrating the stories they want to commemorate. This will be unveiled at the first Pride event in the area, co-produced by these young people.

This project focuses on the overlooked history of people with learning disabilities who worked in Bradford's mills in the 1800s and 1900s. After historical research and creative exploration, learning-disabled young people will help create a model of a mill and fill it with their creative responses to the stories they've unearthed.

This project will work with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to build a sense of connection to the new land they find themselves in. This project seeks to develop a sense of belonging and connection to the area by exploring the heritage and historical significance of the Staffordshire Moors. The place marker will be designed by these young people and created by a local artist.

Whitaker Park was once known for sound and music, but its bandstands are now silent. This project seeks to bring the music back. Young people will be paid to work with a curator to uncover these histories before creating sound-based responses. QR codes in the park will link to these new soundscapes.

Young people will create an augmented reality trail through King's Lynn town centre, exploring the queer histories of the town. This will connect to a permanent artwork created in partnership with True's Yard. What form this artwork takes will be in the hands of the young people.