THE Government has pledged a cash injection of £250,000 to Warrington's peace centre's Legacy Project to help British-based victims and survivors of the Northern Ireland conflict.
Parliamentary Private Secretary Tom Harris made the announcement at the Peace Centre last Wednesday at the first national conference for those British individuals affected by the 'Troubles'.
The conference was a landmark event in raising awareness of victims' issues in Britain and marked the implementation of an important recommendation from the Legacy Project's independent needs analysis published in November last year.
Clare White, director of the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Trust, said: "This funding award is a testament to the quality of work undertaken by the trust to date and the relevance of the legacy report.
"We are delighted to be able to now take our work to the next stage, delivering the recommendations from the report and developing an innovative programme of direct support that is not currently available."
This additional funding will help sustain the work done by the Legacy Project until 2007 and allow for the individual needs of British victims and survivors to be targeted, as well as look at future strategies for the programme.
The project is aimed at those affected by bereavement, injury or trauma directly linked to the trouble in Northern Ireland, including former soldiers, victims of bombing in Britain, emergency service workers who attend incidents, families of soldiers killed in the conflict and all families of those involved.
l Full story in the Warrington Guardian on Thursday.
