Black Miners Museum
With valuable support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) Midlands & East, partners
and made possible by National Lottery Players.
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Introduction
Black Miners Museum Project, led by Nottingham News Centre CIC, aims to grow lasting partnerships with existing mining museums and industrial-related museums across the UK, by enriching and enhancing current visitor exhibitions and displays through the integration of recently unearthed narratives, memories and creative representations of former coal miners of black/ African-Caribbean heritage and other diverse groups within UK mining history. Through the inclusion and access to selected new material such as: images, audio, film, research, rare artefacts, publications, art installations, digital concepts and more, visitors will learn more about Britain’s diverse, multicultural, industrial history.

‘No Joke’ mix-media artwork by Honey Williams, artist and project volunteers © Black Miners Museum

Project Objectives
Achieved with valuable support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) and National Lottery Players, our partners and the public.

Project Partners
As project lead, Nottingham News Centre CIC works in collaboration with our project partners such as:
Communities Inc. Nottingham
National Coal Mining Museum for England (NCMMfE)
Nottingham Industrial Museum & Wollaton Hall
Woodhorn Mining Museum Northumberland
Durham Mining Museum
as well as a variety of additional, supporting organisations and individuals from around the world, passionate about preserving heritage.

Project Legacy
Due to the resounding success of Nottingham News Centre’s various industrial heritage projects: Miners of African Caribbean Heritage, Narratives from Nottinghamshire (2015-2016) and Digging Deep, Coal Miners of African Caribbean Heritage National Narratives from across the UK (2017-2018) and the momentum gained from a renewal in public interest into mining heritage, we have helped secure a lasting legacy through access to diverse industrial education for all.

Enterprise Growth Through Innovation and Education
The project will continue and develop, build on resilience and heritage enterprise growth, from August 2021 and beyond.

Project Significance For Diverse Audience Engagement
This unique national heritage project, will help to attract and to engage new and younger audiences, including diverse groups and hard to reach communities into mining museums and other industrial-related museums, by publicly sharing and celebrating the contributions of former miners from diverse communities, becoming part of our global story and shared history.
Help us continue this important, diverse, national mining heritage work preserving and sharing heritage by making a donation today.

About Nottingham News Centre CIC
Nottingham News Centre, founded in 2013, is a community interest company (i.e. social enterprise) specialising in heritage project management, heritage research, heritage content and media production for exhibitions, including print, online and broadcast mediums.
We provide B2B consultancy, oral history/heritage training, project management, curatorial, exhibition support and heritage publishing services for national and international organisations.
View our portfolio at www.nottinghamnewscentre.com/portfolio
or visit www.nottinghamnewscentre.com for information on how we can help you. View works by Norma Gregory (MA) at www.normagregory/profile
About the Heritage Fund
Thanks to National Lottery Players, the National Lottery Heritage Fund invests money to help people across the UK explore, enjoy and protect the heritage they care about – from the archaeology under our feet to the historic parks and buildings we love, from precious memories and collections to rare wildlife. www.hlf.org.uk. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and use #NationalLottery and #HLFsupported.
Help us continue this valuable heritage preservation project by making a
donation today