With projects in countries across the Middle East, North and East Africa and parts of South Asia, the Cultural Protection Fund has a wide range of stories about cultural heritage to explore.
If you are a current or former Cultural Protection Fund grantee and have a story about your project which you would like to feature on our site, please get in touch.
No Other Land has won Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards. The film was co-directed by two alumni of a project supported by the Cultural Protection Fund.
Cultural Protection Fund (CPF) Director Stephanie Grant reflects on her trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank in December 2024.
Discover more about Kusunda, the language from Nepal with only one native fluent speaker left.
The Ileret Footprint site in Kenya has been conserved by National Museums Kenya and partners and handed over to the Marsabit County Government.
A unique event dedicated to the art of traditional tattoos in Iraq has been launched by The American Academic Institute in Iraq (TAARI) in Baghdad.
Janakpur Women's Development Center is preserving and reviving Maithil women’s paintings and mud art heritage in Nepal.
MaritimEA Research has launched ‘The Lost Cities of the Indus Delta’, part of its Digital Heritage Trail Project which is documenting five endangered maritime archaeological sites in Sindh.
Facing Change: Jordan 2024 brought together professionals from over 40 countries for a packed programme of cultural heritage protection events.
CPF team members Steph and Raechel paid a recent visit some of the fund’s projects in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Action for Hope has launched its interactive exhibition On The Tracks of Music recently at the Baghdadi Cultural Centre in Baghdad.
Cultural Protection Fund grantee RIWAQ has been announced as the joint winners of a key category at the UIA 2030 Award for Sustainable Architecture
The Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU) has announced the official opening of the Semei Kakungulu Museum located near Mbale in Eastern Uganda.
A poem created by the Reconfiguring Heritage Research Team consisting of youth from Iraq, Syria and Jordan.
The event will explore how organisations are facing the challenges of adapting to our changing climate, to conflict and threats to intangible and tangible cultural heritage.
In cultures where traditional music is shared orally, what happens when those communities are dispersed due to war and climate change?
To celebrate Africa Day 2024, the Kara-Tunga Foundation tell us about their work to protect the Ik community cultural heritage in North-East Uganda.
The Cultural Protection Fund is announcing 22 newly funded projects, across 10 countries, with a funding total of over £2 million. .
How can longer-term evaluation help us to assess the impact of Cultural Protection Fund projects?
Dan Snow visited Jordan recently to discover the legacy of a Cultural Protection Fund Stonemasonry Training Scheme.
How do three threads help illustrate the story of the Cultural Protection Fund?
A look behind the scenes at Music Schools for Refugees, with Basma El Husseiny, Director of Action for Hope.
Steve Stenning, British Council's Director Culture in Action, received his honour from the Princess Royal.
Ilaria Manzini from the Prince Claus Fund shares her experience of a project to rehabilitate historic and religious landmarks in Yemen.
