In 2018 The Y was awarded £707,500 through the National Heritage Lottery Fund’s pioneering “Kick the Dust” funding programme. Funds have been used to support our project “Y Heritage”, a collaboration between The Y, key partners such as our universities and local authorities and the city and county’s wide and brilliant variety of heritage, cultural and creative organisations. The money has been used to better engage young people with heritage across both city and county. With thanks to National Lottery Players for their support, without them projects such as Y Heritage could not happen.
Y Heritage has coordinated a series of “Dragons Den” style pitches over the last three years where Leicester/Leicestershire based organisations applied for funding up to £30,000 from a panel of young people who all engage in some way with The Y. The applying organisations must have built opportunities for work or training into their project funding application. Our aim was for young people and the heritage projects to develop and thrive together – you can watch short films and find out about some of the great projects Y Heritage has supported below…