Heritage For All Fund Awards £100,126 bringing Surrey’s heritage to life for more communities
The Surrey Heritage for All Fund has awarded £100,126 in its second round of grants, supporting 11 inspiring projects that are helping make Surrey’s rich heritage more inclusive and accessible for everyone.
Developed by the Surrey Cultural Partnership (SCP) and the Community Foundation for Surrey, with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, this programme empowers not-for-profit community organisations who are using Surrey’s remarkable heritage to improve the lives of those most in need across the county.
These grants will help more people engage with and benefit from heritage in Surrey, support the preservation of our shared history for future generations, and strengthen the sustainability of the organisations who care for it.
From widening access to museum collections, to enabling vulnerable young people to take part in hands-on coppicing, conservation work, heritage green woodworking, and creative activities, we’re incredibly proud of the breadth and impact of the projects supported.
A huge thank you to our funding panel, including young people under 25, disability advocates, and heritage specialists, for shaping a fair, inclusive, and thoughtful selection process.
Funded Projects
Air Time CIC - £10,000
Funding towards Coppice and Connect, a nature-based wellbeing programme for young adults aged 18–25 who face barriers to accessing green spaces or heritage opportunities.
Head2head Theatre - £9,932
Funding to create an accessibility guide video for local heritage centre The Spike, to improve the lives of disabled people and those with additional needs by enabling greater independence, confidence, and participation in local heritage.
Surrey Coalition of Disabled People - £10,000
Funding will support the Surrey Coalition for Disabled People (SCDP) to work in collaboration with the team at Alice Holt Forest to increase accessibility and participation for people living with physical and sensory disabilities.
The Include Project - £10,000
Funding to create a history and storytelling of the Redhill area using music to engage a diverse range of people from their wider community by working in schools in areas which experience high levels of social deprivation.
Dorking Society (Dorking Museum and Heritage Centre) - £9,090
Funding will support the digitisation of Dorking Museum's archive of refugee committee papers creating a digital archive of Surrey's refugee history for the education of children and young people and wider community.
Photographs from Dorking Museum’s collection of German/Czech refugees in the Dorking area in the 1930s/40s.
Surrey Rams Basketball Club CIC - £10,000
Funding to develop an oral history and archive of the story of British Basketball and Football heritage in Surrey. Working with up to 30 young people who attend the group's school holiday clubs, young people will create and develop a digital archive culminating in a community exhibition.
Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum - £10,000
Funding to develop a digital archive of stories about the contributions of people from ethnic minority communities in Surrey during World War 2.
Camberley Nepalese (Gurkha) Society - £8,000
Funding to enable a rich programme of activities, including spending time in nature, farming, gardening and improving the landscape to continue. Funding will also provide day trips to engage members with local historic and heritage locations.
The Museum of Farnham - £4,900
Funding to support a wide programme of activities which include consultation, outreach and promotion of the Museum to engage and increase participation with the local community of Surrey.
Spelthorne Archaeology and Local History Group - £10,000
Funding to develop the Spelthorne Museum which has recently re-located to the Staines Library Hub. When embedded in this new space, the Museum will be able to engage with a wide-ranging and diverse audience, thus meeting the need for free and local access to heritage.
Rural Life Living Museum - £8,204
Funding towards the Rural Life Living Museums (RLLM) learning programme, offering benefits for the organisation, in terms of promoting their heritage centre and activities, and supporting children and adults to learn about and experience local heritage.
Partners of The Surrey Heritage for All Fund
The Heritage for All Fund is now closed but stay tuned. We’ll be spotlighting our fantastic new and returning grant recipients over the coming months!