Project title: We Were Brothers
Applicant: Handful Productions
Grant: £32,100
To research, write and produce a play based on the shared heritage of the men from the North West of Ireland who fought under Willie Redmond in the First World War, examining their ideals, motivation, and ultimate discovery of a common bond through fighting together.
Project title: The Cavell Van Restoration Project
Applicant: Kent & East Sussex Railway
Grant: £27,000
To restore and interpret the railway van used to convey the coffin of The Unknown Warrior from Dover Docks to London, and the body of nurse Edith Cavell who had been executed by Germans forces.
Project title: Park Place Remembers the Great War
Applicant: Kidz R Us
Grant: £23,000
To explore the lives behind the names of the 11 soldiers who lost their lives in the Great War and who are commemorated on a small war memorial in the building used by the youth group.
Project title: Patriot Exhibition at Crewe
Applicant: LMS-Patriot Co. Ltd.
Grant: £13,300
To produce an exhibition to feature three memorial steam locomotives built after the Great War and dedicated to railway company employees who lost their lives in the war.
Project title: The Heugh Battery World War 1 Trench Experience
Applicant: The Heugh Gun Battery Trust Ltd
Grant: £49,600
To complete an accurate reconstruction of a First World War trench system incorporating information signage, accessible interpretation, exhibition handling and interactive experiences and provide an effective learning environment for local schools.
Project title: Training Pilots for War
Applicant: Ian McIntosh Memorial Trust
Grant: £48,000
To re-display the Link trainer, an early form of fight simulator, and a Vampire training aircraft which were used to train pilots in both World Wars as the focal point of a pilot training exhibition.
Project title: The 90th Anniversary of the Burial of the Unknown Warrior
Applicant: The Dover War Memorial Project
Grant: £28,000
To collate material relating to the Unknown Warrior's story and produce an exhibition and teaching pack dedicated to the story of the Unknown Warrior and the stories of individual soldiers.
Project title: PALS
Applicant: Rowbot Street
Grant: £11,200
To provide an opportunity for young people to research the history of, and create a short film based on, the experiences of the Accrington PALS East Lancashire Regiment during the First World War.
Project title: Restoration of the Nicholson War Memorial
Applicant: Leek Town Council
Grant: £183,000
To restore the interior and exterior of the Nicholson War Memorial, and undertake associated activities such as oral history interviews and an exhibition.
Project title: Jacksdale and Westwood 1914 - 2014
Applicant: Jacksdale Area Culture & Heritage
Grant: £49,900
To explore the history of Jacksdale village, focusing on the war memorial and the names of those who served and gave their lives in the war culminating in a collection of oral histories, a DVD of archive material and a book.
Project title: Revealing the Memorial Bells
Applicant: Memorial Community Church, Plaistow
Grant: £40,800
To restore the ten memorial bells, which have the names of the local men who died in the war cast into them, repair the belfry and create an exhibition on the story of the bells.
Project title: Time Slides
Applicant: The Wartime Memories Project
Grant: £15,000
To digitise, research, interpret and exhibit to the public, a privately held collection of glass slides including ones from the Great War formerly belonging to Capt. Eric Dixon Dent DLI & RFC and his father William Dixon Dent.
Project title: 11.11.11.11: Crayford's Unknown Warrior
Applicant: Crayford Town Archive
Grant: £39,500
To explore the life of a local young soldier who was buried in the village, digitise his autograph book and work with schools pupils and families on interpretation of this story.
Project title: Chorley Remembers
Applicant: Chorley PALS Memorial
Grant: £323,000
To conserve the Memorial Arch, enhance the PALS Memorial Statue and create a new exhibition and interpretation space in Astley Hall.
Project title: The St Helen's Pals
Applicant: St Helens Townships Family History Society
Grant: £40,800
To access and transcribe the medal rolls and war diaries relating to the 11th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, in order to interpret the story of the St Helens PALS, produce an illustrated book, a website, an exhibition and a schools project.