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Greetings and warm wishes from Nottingham News Centre CIC and its latest heritage project,
BLACK MINERS MUSEUM PROJECT
with valuable support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) and made possible by National Lottery players.

We hope you will become part of this project, just contact us to find out more.

Introduction

The two-year project, based in Nottingham, East Midlands UK, commences June 2019 and ends May 2011.

Nottingham News Centre will work in collaboration with our project partners: Communities Inc. Nottingham
National Coal Mining Museum for England (NCMMfE)
The Big Pit National Coal Museum Wales
Nottingham Industrial Museum & Wollaton Hall
Woodhorn Mining Museum Northumberland
Durham Mining Museum
as well as a variety of supporting organisations from around the world.

This heritage project is led by volunteers from across the UK and focuses on collating and sharing the experiences of former coal miners of African Caribbean heritage, exhibited through a variety of media-based, creative art forms.

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Press release

Project Significance

Help us continue this valuable work curating and exhibiting mining heritage make a
donation today.

Every little bit helps!

Project Legacy

Due to the resounding success of Nottingham News Centre’s various National Lottery 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, this exciting project will expand and increase public awareness and access to industrial and social heritage plus initiate a richer understanding of the contributions made to Britain’s industrial past by miners of African Caribbean heritage from across the UK.

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