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 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 Partnership. In this second phase of the programme (2007-2010) grants of between £500 and £10,000 are available through an annual grant programme. Museums, libraries and archives in England may apply for grants focused on one or both of the following areas:
- work with children and young people
- inter-generational learning.
Year 2 funding has now closed (2008/9)
The TPYF2 grant scheme has now closed. A further and final grant round will be announced for 2009/10. Please keep an eye on this and the grants pages on the MLA website (www.mla.gov.uk/aboutus/grants) for details of the next funding round.
For more details, contact either: Trish Botten, Learning & Skills Manager: trish.botten@mlasoutheast.org.uk or 01962 858840 or Clare Lavis, Partnerships & Projects Manager: clare.lavis@mlasoutheast.org.uk or 01962 858837.
