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The Heritage Lottery Fund is launching a new grant programme called All Our Stories.
This is a new, time-limited grant programme aimed at community groups. Awards of £3k- £10k are available and this grant supports a forthcoming BBC2 series entitled The Great British Story.

The application form is short and straightforward; the deadline for sending in a bid is 31 July 2012.
For more information, including details on activities that can be funded and how to apply, visit:

http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/programmes/Pages/allourstories.aspx

Jigsaw is holding an Excavation Methodology course next Saturday 21st April from 10am - 12.30pm at March Library. Book your place now. Suitable for all abilities and knowledge. We will be looking specifically at testpitting methodology but also more broadly at excavation methodology as a whole.

As part of the upcoming Great British Story BBC series starring Michael Wood, Jigsaw Cambridgeshire, FenArch and the BBC are proud to present The Hidden Fenland Community excavation, to be held near March from Friday 11th - Monday 14th May. See  http://www.bbc.co.uk/thingstodo/activity/the-hidden-fenland-community-excavation/occurrence/70843 for more information. To request a place to take part, fill in our training booking form here.

 

 

Jigsaw launched on Tuesday. See here for County Council press release.

The Jigsaw Cambridgeshire project launched today! Stephen Macaulay and Jemima Woolverton went on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire this morning to talk about recent excavations in Chatteris and Jigsaw.

Listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00pyrzc (fast forward to 1 hour 49 minutes in).

Check out Cambridge News tomorrow for a report on the launch.