Grant received from the National Lottery Heritage Fund

We are delighted to announce that the Trent Park Museum Trust has received a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund!

The grant will enable us to bring Trent Park to life whilst the capital building project remains ongoing. The money will be used to help us develop a digital museum (including a brand new website). We will be collecting stories about the people who lived and worked at Trent Park, plus those in the local community with their own migration stories. Working with local schools, we will be developing our learning programme and online resources for schools.

The grant comes at an important time; we are thrilled to continue to tell Trent Park's story and to be able to share it with both local and global audiences.

The Digital Museum project that the National Lottery Heritage Fund is funding will generate awareness and provide access to the House’s hidden histories, specifically those of the Secret Listeners. Some of the House’s most compelling history has lay hidden for decades, and as material becomes declassified, important information is only now being revealed.

Directly benefitting residents of Enfield, Edmonton, Barnet and Hertsmere, the project comprises:

• a Schools project – developing and delivering pilot workshops for local primary and secondary school pupils;

• a Community Participation project – focussing on archival research into individual Secret Listeners and recording the oral histories of the families and friends of Secret Listeners and others linked to the House;

• the Digital Museum website – featuring the findings, interviews and schools learning resources developed as part of the project.