This project delivers a range of community led heritage initiatives which cover cultural history and built heritage and are designed to engage the public with local history in a new way. The initiatives include:
- A series of publications covering shipwrecks in the Binevenagh area, local war involvements, a historic pamphlet series which will support self-guided tours of the Binevenagh area and a publication celebrating storytelling and lore of the area.
• Working with Museum Services to provide training and facilities for the collection of local history and archiving of material through Community Archive NI.
• Promoting Aghanloo Community Association’s interesting and notable history through new community driven semi-permanent interpretation and groundworks improvement.
• Multi-platform art and design programme to engage the public in the built defence heritage structure of the former RAF Trainer Dome at Aghanloo, and wider context of defence heritage structures along the coastline.
• Additional engagement in, and awareness of, the Limavady Workhouse highlighting how the workhouse was shaped by, and equally shaped the historic landscape and its people.
• Accredited tour guide training opportunities for local people