Lottery funding for SSAFA commemoration
Wed 19th March 2014SSAFA East Yorkshire has received £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for their project to commemorate 100 years since the start of World War One.
The event will take place in Saturday Market and will be combined with the annual Armed Forces Day.
It will focus on the theme of 'Now and Then', offering an opportunity to both entertain and educate, and is presented in conjunction with the Defence School of Transport in Leconfield, other service charities and community-based organisations.
Councillor David Elvidge said: "We are thrilled to have the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and are confident the project will allow us to put together a day worthy of this once in a lifetime occasion."
Fiona Spiers, head of Heritage Lottery Fund in Yorkshire and the Humber, added: "The impact of the First World War was far-reaching, touching and shaping every corner of the UK and beyond. The Heritage Lottery Fund has already invested more than £15 million in projects - large and small - that are marking this global centenary; with our new small grants programme, we are enabling even more communities like those involved in the Beverley Centenary Day project to explore the continuing legacy of this conflict and help local young people, in particular, to broaden their understanding of how it has shaped our modern world."
The project will enable people of every age group to gain an experience of seeing vehicles and equipment used a century apart. Throughout the day there will be uniformed interpreters describing life in the 1914-18 conflict.
There will also be an element of World War Two history brought to life on the day, with the 70th anniversary of D-Day, including a fly past of a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Dakota.
