Category: Grants

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Keeping Bigg-Wither archive in Hampshire

Papers came up for sale at auction November 2025 relating to the Bigg-Wither family of Manydown, Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, containing estate, official and family material dating mainly from...

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Farnborough Research in the Cold War

This project to digitise and restore colour & monochrome film negatives (glass & wet negative) of British aviation research & development at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough in the...

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Airfield to Archive: Farnborough

HAT has awarded a £4000 grant to the The National Aerospace Library (NAL) with Farnborough Sixth Form College for a digitisation, research and training project. NAL holds programmes from the...

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The Newnham Oral and Written History Project is all about ‘celebrating the past and building the future’ as it aims to use local heritage and history as a vehicle to...

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Southampton Archives Cataloguing project

Southampton Archives has a wealth of material deposited by community groups and individual community leaders, who have worked for change on a variety of local, national or international issues. Archives...

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Grant for the Watercress Line through time

This project is to create an engaging, educational, and child-friendly illustrated timeline of the Mid Hants Railway affectionately known as the Watercress Line. HAT is contributing £500 to the project...

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Grayshott Wartime Memories

This is a history of Grayshott during WW2, with a collection of contemporary and current villagers’ memories and stories, and based on Grayshott Heritage archive material, eye-witness accounts, interviews and...

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House histories project, Bishops Waltham

Bishop’s Waltham Society is to create and spread information about the history and architecture within the civil parish of Bishop’s Waltham. The Bishop’s Waltham Museum Trust is the custodian of...

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Captain Swing and Hampshire 1830

HAT has awarded £2000 towards an exhibition RIOTS ON RECORD The Story of the Captain Swing Riots of 1830 in Hampshire as revealed by records and archive material The purpose...

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Find out how Southampton prepared for the Armada in 1588

HAT has awarded £500 of funding to the Sarah Siddons fan club to help with the costs of staging Southampton events 3-5th August 2025 culminating in a series of talks...

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Micheldever Station

HAT has awarded £500 to support events at Micheldever Station to celebrate the Community created by the Railway. There will be a 2 day event 10-11 May 2025 at the...

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Andover: An Overspill Story in Film – project concludes

What has the project achieved? Andover: An Overspill Story was a 12-month community project created with the support of the British Film Institute, awarding funds from the National Lottery to...

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Moule papers kept in Hampshire with a grant from HAT

The sale of the papers of the Revd Henry Moule former vicar of Damerham were sold at auction on 14 November 2024 and with the emergency grant of £320 from...

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Records of Titchfield Abbey

The Titchfield Abbey Records Project continues to transcribe the earliest records for Titchfield – those for Titchfield Abbey which was established in 1232 and disbanded with the Dissolution in 1537....

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Andover: An Overspill Story a project grant aided by HAT

Andover: An Overspill Story is a 12-month community project created with the support of the British Film Institute, and now HAT awards a further £250 to develop Wessex Sound and...

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Website Archive Catalogue for Wherwell Churchyard Headstones

HAT has awarded £500 in grant aid to Wherwell History Group to support their initiative to display a catalogue and photographs on their website with corresponding memorial descriptions (approx 600...

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The Warsash House Estate

The Warsash Local History Group want to bring together the history of the estate in one publication and have asked for £500 towards the cost of making this happen, which...

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Saving a Portsmouth online resource

Its every local historian’s nightmare, you and your group lovingly create a website and then the death of a key member means it starts to become unusable, with links failing...

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Bullington book where East meets West

HAT was happy to award £500 to support the publication of this book by Bullington History Group and which was launched as part of their contribution to Heritage Open Week...

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Wellow school log books to be digitised

Wellow school was built on land given by Florence Nightingale’s father William who lived at Embley Park. Florence was a regular visitor to the school and appears in the school...

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Update to cataloguing project Basingstoke has history too!

Report on Hampshire Archives Trust cataloguing project ‘Basingstoke Has History’ A Hampshire Archives Trust grant-funded project ‘Basingstoke has history’ has recently been completed. The project aimed to catalogue some previously...

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Film history of the HAT Fair

Hat Fair, Winchester, is the UK’s longest running outdoor festival and celebrates its 50 year anniversary this year (2024). In celebration, this project will gather and present archival documents in...

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The People’s Parks of Hampshire

Hampshire Gardens Trust have recently completed a long-running project to research and document the history and present state of urban parks in Hampshire’s towns and cities. They have designed this...

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Update on Unlocking Hampshire’s Musical Heritage

This project has digitised eight substantial music manuscripts from Hampshire Record Office and made them publicly available on archive.org. Detailed cataloguing of the manuscripts has identified around 630 compositions within...

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East Boldre Community heritage project

HAT has awarded £500 towards a tracking system to mount travelling exhibitions in the new heritage centre, a small contribution to this huge project East Boldre’s Chapel Heritage Interpretation and...

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Keeping a WW1 Red Cross hospital album in Hampshire

One emergency grant of £199 was agreed for the successful purchase at auction by Hampshire Record Office of an album of photographs relating to the First World War Red Cross...

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Unlocking Hampshire’s West Gallery music

A project ‘Unlocking Hampshire’s Musical Heritage’ submitted by Royal Holloway University of London music department, with support from the Hampshire Record Office has been awarded £4399. This exciting project will...

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A book of historic pictures for the Four Worthy villages

Worthy Local History Group (WLHG) has been awarded a HAT grant of £2310 to publish a book drawing extensively from its photographic collection. Book is now out 9 October 2023...

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Swanmore is relocating its community archive

Swanmore Parish Council is relocating its community archive from various sites to a designated archive space within the parish council office, and provide access to the material by researchers there....

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Digitising registers of objects acquired by Hampshire Museums from the 19th century onwards

The project will create digital copies of Hampshire Cultural Trust’s 19th and 20th century acquisition registers, which list objects given to Winchester and other museums in the county. HAT has...