Category: Projects

A report sent into us from the Pioneer Sailing Trust:- REPORT ON ACTIVITIES – Detailing how the Essex Heritage Trust funding has been applied in 2025. Funding from the Essex Heritage Trust contributed towards the...

During 2025 St John’s Church in Chelmsford redeveloped its churchyard, and was very grateful for a £3,000 grant received from Essex Heritage Trust. The vision was that the large churchyard would become a welcoming...

Additional Information from Museum of Chelmsford Coin types  The Great Baddow Hoard consists of 933 gold Iron Age coins along with fragments of a possible container or vessel.  930 of the gold coins are Eastern...

“I recently had the privilege to welcome back to the church a special Coat of Arms which has been restored and conserved for future generations thanks to a generous grant from the Essex Heritage...

Waltham Abbey Church, Essex in the 19th Century Preface This major study charts a little over a century of the nine hundred years that this magnificent church has stood at Waltham Abbey. It is...

Essex Heritage Trust awarded a grant in March 2023 of £1,000 towards the road Milestone replacement project, led by Manningtree Museum & Local History Group. The grant was to fund replacement cast iron posts...

HARWICH MUSEUM LAUNCHES A NEW MAJOR EXHIBITION FOR 2025 Since Harwich Museum closed its doors for the 2024 season on 8th December the volunteers have been hard at work creating a new exhibition celebrating the...

This monument, constructed with the support of the Essex Heritage Trust, commemorates the history of the Royal Artillery (Le Cateau) Barracks and stands as a tribute to the men of the Royal Artillery who...

The villagers of Loughton had upheld the tradition of lopping the trees in the forest believing that this right had been granted to them by royal charter by Queen Elizabeth I.  The lopped wood...

In November 2023 EHT gave St John the Evangelist, Little Leighs a grant of £4,750 for block paving at the back of the nave.  This grant gave our fund-raising campaign an enormous boost and we...