Heritage Keepers

A free programme helping schools and communities explore and protect their local heritage

Discover, celebrate, and protect your local heritage

Heritage Keepers is a free education programme for primary schools and community groups across Ireland. It empowers participants to explore their built, cultural, and natural heritage—and provides funding to support meaningful local action.

The Heritage Keepers website

What is Heritage Keepers?

Developing action plans to protect and celebrate local heritage

Through a series of interactive workshops, participants - school groups, community organisations, or local action teams - learn to develop a local action plan to protect and celebrate their heritage

  • Natural Heritage

    The elements of biodiversity, including flora and fauna, ecosystems and geological structures that make up your area.

  • Cultural Heritage

    The range of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations.

  • Built Heritage

    Historic buildings and monuments with architectural, archaeological, cultural, political, or social significance to your area.