Leicestershire & Rutland Heritage Awards 2023 Results
Thursday 5th October 2023 was another inspiring night with so many amazing projects entered for the awards. The judges must have had a very difficult task picking the winners. The full list of entrants is in the Awards Programme.
Protecting Heritage
Blaby District Council – Buried Bouskell’ Restoration Project
Leicester City, County & Rutland At Risk War Memorials Project – Their Names Liveth for Evermore – but only just!
Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust – Ringing in the Future
Loughborough Grammar School Archives – The Headmaster’s Chair
Swannington Heritage Trust – Accessibly protecting the Califat Engine House Complex
New Directions In Heritage
Breedon Priory Heritage with Pudding Bag Productions – Breedon Lives
Coalville CAN Community Benefit Society – Making the Invisible Visible
Foxton Canal Museum – Home is Where We Are!
Loughborough Library Local Studies Volunteer Group – Loughborough Heritage Forum
Sir John Moore Foundation – An Orange in the Clockwork 
Archives and Research
Loughborough Library Local Studies Volunteer Group – Market 800 Celebrations: Research and Publication
Swannington Heritage Trust – Beyond the Magazines – Sharing Swannington’s History
Whitwick Historical Group – Creation of Digital Archive Index in Media Room
Supporting Heritage
Culture Leicestershire – Medfest Community Panel
Swannington Heritage Trust – An Essential Water Supply
Surviving And Thriving
Charnwood Museum – Friends Online
Loughborough Carillon Tower & War Memorial Museum – Re-engaging with our Audience
North West Leicestershire District Council – Heritage on Your Doorstep
Best Project Under £1,000
Anstey Local History Society – A Photographic Exhibition: Anstey at the Beginning of Queen Elizabeth II’s Reign
Culture Leicestershire – 2021 Garden Season
Desford & District Heritage Society – Desford Pop-up Museum
Pudding Bag Productions – Ashby Past Continuous
Sir John Moore Foundation – Clockwork Film
Spiral Projects – The BIG Dig
Swannington Heritage Trust – Opening Our Sites to a Wider Audience
Best Project Over £1,000
Ashby de la Zouch Museum & Pudding Bag Productions – Digital Touchscreen
Blaby District Council – Heritage Walking Trails
Jacqui Gallon Art – Labours Lost
Navrang Arts – Rebuilding Lives: 50 Years of Ugandan Asians (Leicester)
North West Leicestershire District Council – Heritage Outdoor Gallery
Quorn Local History Group – Heritage Boards Illustrating the History of Quorn
Swannington Heritage Trust – Improving Hough Mill Audience Experience with Audio Guide
Working with Children and Young People
Leicester Transport Heritage Trust – Introducing Dennis and Friends
Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust – Kids In Museums Takeover Days
Pudding Bag Productions – The Beaumonts of Barrow upon Trent
Sir John Moore Foundation – Museum Tour
Spiral Projects – The Legend of the Bear
Heritage Hero
Culture Leicestershire – Anila Sisoda
Desford & District Heritage Society – Kate Twitchin
Sir John Moore Foundation – Andrew Moore
Swannington Heritage Trust – Mike Luff
Heritage Group Of The Year
Anstey Local History Society, Desford & District Heritage Society, Jacqui Gallon Art, Loughborough Library Local Studies Volunteer Group, Navrang Arts, Pudding Bag Productions, Quorn Local History Group, Spiral Projects
Museum Of The Year
Ashby de la Zouch Museum, Blaby District Council, Breedon Priory Heritage, Charnwood Museum, Coalville CAN Community Benefit Society, Culture Leicestershire, Foxton Canal Museum, Leicester City, County & Rutland At Risk War Memorials Project, Leicester Transport Heritage Trust, Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust, Loughborough Carillon Tower & War Memorial Museum, Loughborough Grammar School Archives, North West Leicestershire District Council, Sir John Moore Foundation, Swannington Heritage Trust, Whitwick Historical Group
Commended, Winners And Before The Event
Leicestershire & Rutland Heritage Awards 2020
The awards features projects completed in 2019 and 2020 and were open to all heritage related organisations in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
Attracting New Audiences
- Winner – Community Curators – Do You See What I See?
- Highly Commended – Cotesbach Educational Trust – Christmas Trail: 12 Days of Christmas
Behind The Scenes
- Winner – Loughborough Bell Foundry Trust – Taylor’s of Loughborough, Digital Archive – entry example LBT entry form and LBT Support 1 and LBT Support 2.
- Highly Commended – Swannington Heritage Trust – Achieving More During the Pandemic
Best Project Over £750
- Winner – Greater Wigston Historical Society – The Greater Wigston Heritage Centre
- Highly Commended – Pudding Bag Productions – Thomas Pestell a 17th century Vicar of Packington
Best Project Under £750
- Winner – Swannington Heritage Trust – The Extraordinary People of Swannington
- Highly Commended – Charnwood Museum – Museum from Home
Best Research Project
- Winner – Swannington Heritage Trust – Swannington’s Coal Mining Children – entry example SHT Entry and SHT Support
- Highly Commended – Llynda Baugh, Spiral Projects – Famous Fifty Website
Bringing Heritage Alive
- Winner – Llynda Baugh, Spiral Projects – Re-creating the March of the Fifty
- Highly Commended – Burbage Heritage Group – Burbage Remembers the Great War 1914 – 1919
Commemorating Anniversaries
- Winner – Anstey Local History Society – Anstey War Memorial Projects – entry example ALHS Entry and ALHS Support
- Highly Commended – Pudding Bag Productions – A Step on the Ladder
Volunteer Team of the Year
- Winner – Diseworth Heritage Trust – After the Flood
- Highly Commended – Moira Furnace Museum Trust – Moira Furnace Museum Trust Volunteer Team
- Highly Commended – Sir John Moore Foundation – Local History Café Extended Group
Heritage Group of the Year
- Winner – Burbage Heritage Group
- Highly Commended – Pudding Bag Productions
Museum / Heritage Site of the Year
- Winner – Swannington Heritage Trust
- Highly Commended – Diseworth Heritage Trust
The Leicestershire & Rutland Heritage Awards 2018
Congratulations to all the entrants, you are all winners as each project has contributed to the success of your organisation and the area’s heritage. For inspiration for the next awards read the 2018 list of entries and winners