On Wednesday 22nd October, Tim Loughton MP for East Worthing and Shoreham attended a House of Commons event hosted by TV historian Dan Snow, to find out how people from his constituency can secure Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) money to help them mark the Centenary of the First World War.
The event showcased just a handful of over 1000 First World War projects taking place across the UK, thanks to more than £60million of investment from HLF.
Grants of between £3,000 to £10,000 will continue to be available throughout the Centenary through HLF’s ‘First World War: then and now’ programme which is enabling people to explore, conserve and share their First World War heritage. Groups that need a grant of more than £10,000 for a project can apply to HLF through its open programmes.
Projects on display showed the breadth and scale of First World War stories being explored and shared across the country:
- in Coventry, young people have been researching the rise and decline of women’s football during and following the end of the War;
- groups across Hertfordshire have uncovered the stories of those remembered on local war memorials across the county;
- in Belfast a project has been exploring why Irish nationalists volunteered to fight for the British army during the conflict; and
- a stone memorial has been created in Derby to recognise the contribution of the very many Sikhs who served in the war