Opportunities for new volunteers

Still opportunities for new volunteers to work with project.

Although the Tynemouth World War One Commemoration Project has been engaged in its many activities for more than 2 years we still have many tasks to be completed in order to achieve our aims for the forthcoming centenary of the outbreak of the war on 4^th August, 1914.

Anyone who would wish to get involved with a project which has won recognition at both regional and national levels for the breadth of its activities and quality of its output is welcome to get in touch through our website, or in person at our workroom (B9) at the Linskill Community Centre, Trevor Terrace, North Shields.

The project has been recognised for the multi-faceted forms of community information and engagement it has produced to commemorate the tragic events of the war and the tremendous response of the local population, which resulted in a terrible toll in lost lives and family grief.

Working with schools, community groups and higher education institutions we aim to inform the population in general and make available to relatives of casualties the fullest information possible about the nearly 2000 men reported as killed or died as a result of the war.

The project’s programme of lectures, organised in conjunction with Northumbria University, attracted national comment for the breadth of topics to be covered and the quality of the speakers who will address people from all walks of life in the north east, who would only rarely have the opportunity to hear these leading researchers of the war and its consequences.

The public response to the lectures has been significant and has already obliged us to seek a larger lecture theatre for the first three lectures, and probably all succeeding events. Notice of the new venue will be given in this column and by e-mail when we have determined the likely attendances. Registration of interest to attend any of the lectures can still be made through our website – see below.

The first lecture will be given on Wednesday, 9^th October by Professor Sir Hew Strachan of All Souls College, Oxford University a leading authority on the history of the Great War and author of an acclaimed history of the conflict.

The Army Benevolent Fund is staging a concert – Salute our Heroes – at 7.30pm on 28^th September, at the Sage. Tickets for this spectacular show are still available and are on sale now from the Sage Box Office – 0191 443 4661.