Resources: Funding Focus - Remembering Slavery - Heritage LotteryFund

The Heritage Lottery Fund is encouraging community-based organisations to use its programmes to apply for money for projects relating to the bicentenary. A booklet called Remembering Slavery has been produced that gives ideas for projects and provides information for doing further research.

What will it fund? The fund supports distinct heritage-themed projects, not an organisation's ongoing work. Projects will need to have one or more clear outcomes such as an exhibition, publication or other resources and are strongly advised to involve historical research and the use of documents and objects as inspiration and raw material. One idea for engaging with slavery is to explore links between slavery and contemporary language, music or dance, perhaps leading to a performance with young people. Another tack might be to look at how the slave trade influenced the built environment, such as estates built by traders, street names and gravestones, and create a web site trail of findings. Tracing local industrial and manufacturing links with the trade is another possibility.