During Covid, Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre at Bradwell Abbey formed a large community music group, made up of schools, community choirs and the Milton Keynes Youth Orchestra.

Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre have been awarded funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to embark on an exciting project animating The Plan for Milton Keynes, the original masterplan produced in 1970 that outlined the design and development of the new city.

MKCDC brought fun and exciting design and creative activities to celebrate the unique new town heritage of Milton Keynes.

We are delighted to have been awarded a grant from the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund.

In June 2020 we were delighted to hear we would receive resilience funding from Historic England to take our educational heritage activities online.

This project, in collaboration with Milton Keynes Council, Westbury Arts and Word-In-Edgeways, looks at the medieval pilgrim history and routes of Milton Keynes and invites everyone to join us as we find new pilgrim tales and trails, for a new era.

Exploring and documenting the architectural design and social heritage of Milton Keynes.

The purpose of the AHRC New Towns Heritage Research Network is to share research and policy on the architectural heritage value of the Post War New Towns in the UK and Mainland Europe.

Working in partnership with Inter-Action MK who have offices with us, we were fortunate to receive an Awards for All grant in September 2018 to create 3 new gardens.

We are so pleased to have been awarded a grant from the Community Fund! This has allowed us to keep our beautiful grounds open during lockdown and has given us the resource to keep growing produce from our Community Garden, which we have been donating to local people and to the Wolverton Community Fridge.

In 2018 we received funding from Milton Keynes Council through their Sharing Culture programme to engage the Living Archive MK to train young carers in filming, photography and oral history techniques.

From 2019-20 we were fortunate enough to receive funding from the Milton Keynes Community Foundation to carry out a new education pilot programme with Special Educational Needs schools in Milton Keynes.

In 2019 we received £10000 from the National Lottery Awards for All fund to carry out a year’s worth of outdoor activities

In 2019 we received £10000 form the National Heritage Fund to carry out a series of resilience activities.

In 2018 Milton Keynes Council secured internal and Historic England funding to complete conservation works on our fourteenth-century chapel.

In 2019 we secured funding from the Milton Keynes Heritage Association to produce the Milton Keynes Colouring Book Volume 1!