Big Ideas: WW1 Commemoration Funding Programmes
Archived
Arts, culture and heritage
Cultural heritage
Antrim & Newtownabbey
Ards & North Down
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon
Belfast City
Causeway Coast and Glens
Derry City and Strabane
England
Fermanagh and Omagh
Great Britain
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Mid and East Antrim
Mid Ulster
Newry, Mourne and Down
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Micro (up to £1,000)
Overview
The projects are funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) with additional funding for select projects to work in the Home Nations from RAF100, through the Chancellor using LIBOR funds, and a National Lottery grant from the Big Lottery Fund.
Funding Programmes
Groups can choose one of the following programmes through which to discover and remember World War One:
The Unremembered: World War One’s Army of Workers
- Take part in this nationwide project to remember the Labour Corps from around the world – you can discover unknown local heritage and plan your own commemorative event.
Tull100 – Football Remembers
- Celebrate and commemorate Walter Tull, the first black heritage officer in the British Army and a professional footballer, with activities such as football matches or letter writing.
Trailblazers: World War One’s Inspirational Women
- Celebrate the lives of inspirational women from the First World War and identify contemporary Trailblazing women in your community.
Remember RAF100
- Mark the formation of the RAF by commemorating air service personnel who lost their lives in World War One with creative activities.
Motherhood, Loss, and the First World War
- Discover the stories of mothers and their bereavement from the First World War with creative activities and letter writing.