Welcome to
Heritage Keepers
Heritage Keepers is a free programme for primary schools and community groups across Ireland that empowers participants to delve into their built, cultural and natural heritage and provides funding to allow them to take positive local action!
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Heritage Keepers Impact
90 %
participants began discussing local heritage after HK
95 %
participants felt they enhanced their local heritage after HK
3676
people directly benefitted from HK
15700
people indirectly benefitted from HK
99 %
participants recommend taking part in HK
Heritage Keepers Projects
We are incredibly proud and grateful of all our previous Heritage Keepers participants, who have shown an inspiring amount of pride in their place and proven themselves to be wonderful stewards of their community. Here are some of the actions they have taken to promote or preserve their local built, cultural, or natural heritage.
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What is the Heritage Keepers programme?
What they said...
I feel the very act of focusing in on our local space, through the different heritage lenses, just that close looking and discussion awoke or deepened in many of the children their sense of belonging in their communities, their sense of pride in their place and ultimately a sense of agency in regard to it.
Teacher Meriel Donaghy, Holy Trinity NS, Westport.
Heritage Keepers Involves
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