The Big Lottery Fund has allocated 7m from its 12.3m Home Front Recall Fund, which so far has provided money for commemorative events, to 1,047 organisations across the UK, including youth groups.
The Sayers Croft Environmental Educational Trust, an outdoor residential centre in Surrey that was originally built to house evacuees, received about 15,000 for a residential project helping teenagers relive wartime Britain with the help of elderly former residents.
As part of the residential project last month, 20 teenagers from the Southeast spent a week with a group of wartime evacuees from Catford Central Boys School, who had been sent to the centre in 1940.
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