Middlewich Town Council has received £9,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the project, Middlewich and the Great War.
Led by Middlewich Town Council, the project focuses on schools, community groups and residents coming together to commemorate and increase understanding of the Great War era.
The project will consist of schools and groups taking ownership of the different parts of the project such as the serving armed forces, role of the Red Cross, the war at home, and Great War battles that Middlewich men were involved in, etc.
Each part would be developed by the different groups and the results brought back together again in a large scale town exhibition on 4th and 5th October 2014.
Commenting on the award, the town’s heritage development officer Kerry Fletcher said: “It’s fantastic that we have the support of Heritage Lottery Fund. This guarantees that the project isn’t just delivering a weekend of commemoration, but involving and supporting people of all age groups in the community producing exhibition materials about what the Great War means to them.
“It’s an opportunity to explore, examine roles of the era and learn new skills, which we are very excited about”