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<p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Arm's Length Body, Arts
Council England (ACE), via its National Lottery Project Grants funding has supported
a wide range of organisations and events focused on engaging with and celebrating
South Asian Heritage, including supporting the South Asian Heritage Trust, which delivers
their annual South Asian Heritage Month observance.</p><p>South Asian Heritage Month
was established in 2020. Since then, ACE awarded a £20,175 National Lottery Project
Grant to the South Asian Heritage Trust for their South Asian Heritage Month Online
Programme in May 2022. Additionally, ACE awarded £41,700 to 'Tribe Arts' in July 2022
as part of a project to establish partnerships with South Asian Heritage Month.</p><p>Significant
projects have also been funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund between 2003-
2021, in the London Borough of Harrow, with a total investment of £178,732 which explored
and celebrated the South Asian community.</p><p>Current projects supported by Historic
England are celebrating South Asian Places of Worship through thematic listing and
research, and two projects have been awarded through their Everyday Heritage programme
to the Bengali Photography Archive and the Sikh Development Academy.</p>
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