Welcome to the Heritage Foundation blog. Here you'll find the latest blogs from our staff, community groups and more. If you'd like to contribute a blog, please do get in touch via our response@letchworth.com email address.
Our Policy and Programme Manager for Nature and Wellbeing, Emma Dagless, reflects on her first three months working at Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation.
The grants committee met on Monday 17 October to discuss the most recent grant applications for the Communities Looking Forward 2022 programme, and to agree upon the People, Places and Communities fund.
The grants committee met on the morning of Friday 29 July and discussed the latest grant applications. They also listened to presentations from Letchworth Garden Shed and Letchworth Educational Settlement.
We recently hosted a two-day Garden Cities Congress in partnership with the Gascoyne Cecil Estate at Hatfield House and the University of Hertfordshire.
The grants committee met on Friday 13 May to discuss the latest applications and get updates on some of the longer funding commitments that the Foundation has made.
If finances and home expenses are worrying you, Citizens Advice North Herts could help. Ian Allott, Debt and Benefits Advice Team Leader, tells us about how their work helps people's mental health.
Our Heritage Advice Service have launched their Energy Efficiency Guide. Find out what you can do to help with climate change and how to save yourself some money.
As we become more eco-aware, we want to help make a difference. This feeling is echoed at the Heritage Foundation, and we want to help our residents make the best choices to put our environment first.
The grants committee met for the last time in 2021 in mid-December. Find out which groups we awarded grants to and how to apply for a Communities Looking Forward grant in 2022.
Wellness and self-care have required extra attention to break out of the sometimes isolated atmosphere we’ve been dealing with over the last 19 months.