Category: Grants – Preservation

1.The village green  Rowlands Castle c1910

Rowlands Castle Community Archive project

HAT has awarded a grant of £4500 to this community archives project. In 2024 the Rowlands Castle History and Heritage group inherited a large village-related archive of photos, documents and...

somborne village hall

Somborne archive facility

In May 2026 HAT was able to grant £454 for equipment to furnish the Somborne and District Society’s archives storage facility. It is so good to see community group’s committed...

Swelling Hill Pond Dig May  20262026 (7)

Swelling Pond excavation Four Marks

HAT has awarded £100 for a project based at Swelling Hill Pond, situated between Ropley and Four Marks, a beautiful hill-top pond surrounded by idyllic nature and fed by an...

one of the letters in the Battle of Southsea project

Letters to Elsie

This project by the Battle of Southsea Society will preserve, digitise, transcribe, interpret and secure the future of the Batchelor family archive, donated via the History in Portsmouth website.The project...

The slide scanner set up and running

Waterside Heritage – digitisation

Waterside Heritage secured a grant from HAT for £389 to purchase a slide scanner to digitise and catalogue over 15,000 mounted slides. 35mm slides, especially colour ones, deteriorate with time...

supplied by FAST

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...

NAL reading room

Airfield to Archive: Farnborough

Sadly due to copyright permission problems The National Aerospace Library (NAL) with Farnborough Sixth Form Collegehas have had to withdraw from this project, before it got underway. HAT regrets that...

titchfield abbey

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....

Wherwell (l) and Chilbolton (r)

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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