Their Past Your Future 2 is the second phase of the hugely successful Their Past Your Future Programme. This second phase is focused around an annual grant programme open to all museums, libraries and archives in England. The fund is now closed, projects will continue to run until March 2010
The programme offers funding for the sector to use their collections and resources to explore innovative and creative ways of increasing community learning and young people's knowledge and understanding of the impact and contemporary significance of conflict. This overarching aim encompasses themes of remembrance and commemoration, identity and reconciliation, citizenship, diversity, asylum, conflict resolution and peacekeeping.
The programme, which receives cash from the Big Lottery Fund, is managed and delivered by the MLA. For the last two years MLA have been working with regional museums, libraries and archives to develop and fund a wide range of work. To date 120 projects have successfully applied to TPYF2 and over one million pounds worth of grant funding has been awarded to projects.
Further information about the programme including news, stories, resources and events is available on www.culture24.org.uk/tpyf
Please contact Eve Pattinson, MLA Programme Manager for TPYF on eve.pattinson@mla.gov.uk for further details.