Newham Heritage Month Blog

Newham Heritage Month 2025 Launch

3rd February 2025

Newham Heritage Month is back for a sixth year, with £100,000 worth of grants available and a brand new theme. This year the festival will take place in September 2025 with the theme 'Newham At 60', celebrating our borough's sixtieth anniversary. READ MORE +

UCL Special Collections – The New Curators Project 2024

15th May 2024

Participants from The New Curators project give us an insight into their backgrounds, and their motivation and hopes for this year's programme. READ MORE +

Celebrating Green Spaces in Newham

10th May 2024

Newham Heritage Month 2024’s theme is ‘Places and Spaces’, with an exciting line-up that includes revelations about our borough’s astounding natural heritage. This June’s festival invites you to enjoy a range of events and activities celebrating Newham’s diverse green spaces, from micro-allotments to the site... READ MORE +

Would you like your event to be part of Newham Heritage Month?

19th March 2024

We would love to hear about any events or activities taking place in June 2024 that align with the themes of this year's Newham Heritage Month: Places and Spaces. READ MORE +

Newham Heritage Month 2024 Projects Announced

7th March 2024

We are happy to announce the projects which have been funded through the community grants programme for Newham Heritage Month 2024 celebrating the theme 'Places & Spaces'. READ MORE +

Insights from Behind the Scenes of The New Curators Project

1st February 2024

The New Curators programme is back for another year. READ MORE +

Job Opportunity: Digital Content Officer

13th December 2023

Newham Council is seeking to appoint a Digital Content Officer to support the digital and communications aims of Newham Heritage Month (NHM) in an exciting freelance role. READ MORE +

Newham Heritage Month 2024 Launch

17th November 2023

Newham Heritage Month is back for a fifth year, with £100,000 worth of grants and a brand new theme. READ MORE +

Why does West Ham’s musical heritage celebrate blowing bubbles?

8th June 2023

It’s one of the most long-standing and recognizable anthems on the football terraces, but exactly why do West Ham’s famously song-loving fans sing about bubbles as the club’s signature tune? READ MORE +

UCL Special Collections – The New Curators Project

16th May 2023

Participants from The New Curators project give us an insight into their backgrounds, and their motivation and hopes for this year's programme. READ MORE +

Newham Heritage Month 2023 Projects Announced

3rd March 2023

We are very excited to announce the projects which have been funded through the community grants programme for this year's festival. READ MORE +

Top Tips: How to Start Your Own Heritage Project

1st December 2022

Thinking of applying for Newham Heritage Month 2023? Check out this article with advice from former participants on how to deliver a heritage project. READ MORE +

Newham Heritage Month 2023 Launch

2nd November 2022

Newham Heritage Month community grants launched for 2023 to shine a light on the borough’s creative heritage. READ MORE +

UCL Special Collections -The New Curators Project 2022

13th May 2022

The new curators project members tell us about themselves and their interest in Arts and Heritage READ MORE +

What Does Heritage Mean To You?

21st September 2021

Heritage has different meanings for each of us, so here some of the Newham Heritage Month 2021 participants share their own personal takes on what heritage means to them. READ MORE +

Seven Fun Facts About Newham’s Heritage!

21st September 2021

This year’s Newham Heritage Month projects celebrated the theme ‘Shops, Docks and Factories – Newham’s Urban Heritage’ and there were all sorts of fun and surprising facts discovered along the way! Here, seven of this year’s heritage project creators share their favourite fun facts. READ MORE +

Top Tips for thinking about your Newham Heritage Month Project

21st September 2021

Eight top tips on how to make a successful Newham Heritage Month project - from community groups in Newham. READ MORE +

Hands-on: Volunteers in Newham’s Heritage Service

15th September 2021

Newham Heritage Service hosted a group of young volunteers who were conducting archival research as part of the Thames Festival Trust’s heritage project, The Islanders , which looks at the history of Silvertown and North Woolwich. READ MORE +

Roy Thomas: On the making of Stars of the Underground featuring De Underground Records

7th September 2021

Interview with Roy Thomas a film maker who captured De Underground Records in the 1990s. READ MORE +

Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi and Louise Meiklejohn talk about their volunteer experience with IROKO Theatre

26th May 2021

Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi and Louise Meiklejohn talk about their time volunteering for IROKO Theatre as part of the project ‘Stories of Africans Living in Newham’ READ MORE +

Curators take on Newham Heritage Month

20th May 2021

The youngest stars of the Newham Heritage Month 2021 line-up are called ‘The New Curators’, a group of local young people. READ MORE +

Crate Digging with Forest Gate Youth Zone

20th May 2021

Fatou and Elija Sserunjogi have worked with artist Katherine Green on her project about De Underground Record Shop on Sebert Road. They learnt some skills in oral history and photography and as part of this, DJ Chef was interviewed and photographed by them in April... READ MORE +

From West London to East London

30th April 2021

Binal Patel talks about her experiences as a Volunteer Community Photographer for Newham Heritage Month and how she enjoyed the opportunity READ MORE +

Volunteer Community Photographer

27th April 2021

Greg talks about how he became a volunteer community photographer for Newham Heritage Month 2021 and how it renewed his interest in photography and his local area READ MORE +

Volunteering for Newham Heritage Month

6th June 2020

Two volunteers talk about their experience of volunteering at the local studies room at Stratford library in the lead up to Newham Heritage Month. READ MORE +

Young Producers at Rosetta Arts

25th May 2020

Two young producers tell us how they chose heritage events for the festival READ MORE +

September 2025