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Nine Torbay heritage projects receive grants to bring local history to life

Grassroots projects across Torbay are receiving heritage funding designed to strengthen local pride and people's connection with the places around them.

By THE TEA · 31 August 2026

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Nine community projects in Torbay are receiving grants to explore, protect and share local .

The awards form part of Heritage Places, a longer-term programme intended to strengthen pride in place and people's connection with their local history.

Torbay Council says the community grants are designed to support ideas with lasting local impact.

Putting funding into smaller locally shaped projects can widen who gets to tell the story of a place, moving heritage beyond major buildings and institutions and into neighbourhoods and community activity.