{"id":9516,"date":"2015-02-06T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9516"},"modified":"2015-02-06T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:33:13","slug":"war-memorial-conservation-partnership-civic-voice-eh-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9516","title":{"rendered":"War memorial conservation partnership: Civic Voice, EH etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

A new joint project by English Heritage, Civic Voice, the Imperial War Museums and War Memorials Trust has been launched this week, aimed at helping people find out more about the care and conservation of war memorials and giving access to training and research opportunities as part of the <\/span>commemorations of the centenary of the First World War.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) writes:
\n<\/span>First World War Minister Helen Grant yesterday visited the Grade II listed Watford Peace Memorial and announced an ambitious four-year programme to create\u00a0ukwarmemorials.org, a one stop shop for information on all UK war memorials along with where to go for advice and funding.\u00a0 The move means local people will once again be at the heart of protecting and conserving war memorials.<\/p>\n

Funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport from the fines paid by banks that attempted to manipulate the LIBOR, the initiative draws resources together from across the UK.\u00a0 The\u00a0website\u00a0will allow easy access to what specialist organisations know about war memorials and tap into expert advice on how best to look after them. This includes how to get grants for conservation and how to get memorials listed. It will expand in stages over the next four years so that by the end of the project ukwarmemorials.org\u00a0will be easily searchable, helping people track down historical information, listed status, condition and inscribed names.\u00a0 The website will eventually cover war memorials commemorating all modern conflicts up to and including Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Visiting Watford Peace Memorial, successfully restored by the local community with a grant of almost \u00a35000 from the War Memorials Trust, Helen Grant said: \u2018After the First World War, war memorials were erected across the country in a huge wave of remembrance. They were and remain records of our nation\u2019s sacrifice, our personal and collective memories carved in stone. Our part in this ongoing story is to learn, record, restore and protect them for the future.\u00a0 Drawing attention to a series of new listings, from the Tintagel Cross War Memorial in Cornwall to the Alnmouth War Memorial in Northumberland, Helen Grant said: \u2018I am delighted these monuments have been listed and protected. It is wonderful to see how deeply people care about their local history and want to preserve it.\u2019<\/p>\n

A partnership between English Heritage, Civic Voice, Imperial War Museums and War Memorials Trust has been set up to help communities discover, care and conserve their Local First World War memorials. The partnership was formed following the DCMS pledge of \u00a34.5m in July 2014 towards war memorials as part of the activities to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.\u00a0 Over the centenary programme the programme will deliver, funding to help local communities repair and conserve their war memorials, practical conservation training, hundreds of public workshops to encourage people to record and protect their local war memorials, and the listing of up to 500 memorials a year so their historical importance is recognised for years to come.<\/p>\n

View the DCMS press release<\/a><\/p>\n

View the war memorial conservation website<\/a><\/p>\n

IHBC newsblogs on war memorials\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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