Funding

All donations made to us have gone towards the running of our Project and our work to remember those local people who served their country in wartime.

If you would like to support our Project by funding us direct, you can do so here:

Support Our Work

Over the years we have been generously funded and/or supported by the following bodies, they are arranged in reverse chronological order with the most recent funds at the top:
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National Lottery Heritage Fund

  • 2024: A major grant award of £10,000 to research, prove and add over 100 new names to the Borough of Keighley roll of honour book. This would include the inclusion of the biographies of each candidate on our website (maintained for five years,) the production of a publicly accessible exhibition in Keighley Library and a printed book containing all the research, copies of which were to go to all of the schools in Keighley and the Worth Valley. Partly funded by Keighley Town Council and supported by Bradford Metropolitan District Council. We also supported Keighley Town Council’s own Centenary event to commemorate 100 years since the war memorial was built and unveiled along with the original roll of honour book.

Keighley Town Council

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  • 2024: Awarded £3,000 match funding for the work to add over 100 names to The Borough of Keighley Roll of Honour book in it’s centenary year. This was in support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund grant from April 2024 (see above). Whilst it was part of the whole fund, it covered the addition of a new interpretation panel, events to unveil the new names in the book at a special event in Keighley Library and the main exhibition of the research work and the production of a book which was given to all schools in Keighley and the Worth Valley.
  • 2022: With the restricted return to relatively normal life we applied for funding to replace our gazebo with two new signwritten ones and increase the amount of display boards to show more information at shows and other events.
  • 2021: Grant funding to carry out the following: Continue our research and transcription of the Keighley War Hospital Register of Patients with over 13,200 entries. Exhibit the results of our work at Keighley library and at least three local galas and The Keighley Show in this year. This will be alongside our usual research of local people who served in wartime
  • 2020: No funding applications for this year, however a small surplus from last year’s Keighley Town Council grant was allocated to us expanding our website during the Covid 19 epidemic in order to extend our online reach, as no public events were held in this year.
  • 2019: Grant funding was allocated to us carry out the following:
    An event at KRUFC Clubhouse after the dedication of the new headstone for Gunner Gilbert Hardy Midgley at Utley Cemetery. This will be a social event for those attending the deciation ceremony including dignitaries: Deputy Lieutenant; Bradford Lord Mayor; and Keighley Mayor, plus Royal British Legion members, standard bearers and Bugler along with invited guests. This event will include a presentation and exhibition of our work to obtain recognition of local men who died as a result of the war but who for various reasons were not commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. We seek to set the record straight for these men and Gilbert is our third man to be accepted and honoured with a CWGC headstone.
    Dedication event to unveil the Oakworth Centenary Roll of Honour at Holden Hall.
  • 2018: Grant funding to carry out the following:
    Ancestry membership for one year. An event at KRUFC Clubhouse after the dedication of the new headstone for Private Ivor Tempest Greenwood at Utley Cemetery. This will be a social event for those attending the deciation ceremony including dignitaries: Deputy Lieutenant; Bradford Lord Mayor; and Keighley Mayor, plus Royal British Legion members, standard bearers and Bugler along with invited guests. This event will include a presentation and exhibition of our work to obtain recognition of local men who died as a result of the war but who for various reasons were not commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. We seek to set the record straight for these men and Ivor is our second man to be accepted and honoured with a CWGC headstone.
    An exhibition of local people who served in The Battle of Arras from 9th April to 16th May 1916.
    An exhibition of local people who served in The Battle of Passchendaele from 31st July to 10th November.
  • 2017: Oak Fund – Funded our BATTLE OF ARRAS exhibition in Keighley Library, a special ceremony to dedicate the CWGC headstone of Private Ivor Tempest Greenwood at Utley Cemetery, and funded our Nine display banners for our  BATTLE OF THIRD YPRES AND PASSCHENDAELE exhibition, in Keighley Library. Funded our Ancestry membership for one year.
  • 2016: Acorn Fund – Twelve display banners and one advertising banner for our SOMME 100 – KEIGHLEY’S MEN exhibition in Keighley Library which ran from 2nd July 2016 to 19th November 2016.
  • 2015: Acorn Fund -purchase of a new gazebo and banner for our outdoor displays and Ancestry membership for one year.
  • 2014: Through the support of Keighley Mayor Councillor Graham Mitchell, K.T.C. funded and organised an event to mark the occasion and a reception for relatives of Keighley’s Old Contemptibles for our 4th August 2014 event to mark the centenary of the start of the Great War and the Old Contemptibles’ Association.
  • 2014: Funded the conservation work on Keighley Old Contemptible’s Association standard.

Bradford Metropolitan District Council

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Through their Libraries service and their Museums service, they have supported us over the years with Keighley Library and Cliffe Castle Museum space to hold our exhibitions, a safe space to do our research and access to major record collections in their archives, They have given us the opportunities to promote our research and exhibitions. We are truly grateful for all their help.

  • 2024: Through the Bradford Library and Archives Service, the District Council supported our National Lottery Heritage Fund and Keighley Town Council grant, to add over 100 names to the Brorough of Keighley Roll of Honour in it’s centenary year. They also provided us with written consent in principal to add the names in the first place, without which we could not have begun this major undertaking. We are especially thankful for their enthusiastic and ‘hands on’ support of this aim. The library staff in particular did everything possible to make it a success.
  • 2022: Bradford Council Community Chest and Area Committee Funding gave us a £255 grant to purchase a special digital sound recording device, allowing us to make proper recordings of oral history testimonies. The digital recording files comply with the latest industry standards for archiving and longevity.

The Friends of Cross Roads Park

  • 2017: They made a large donation towards the work of our Project after the unveiling of the new Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School war memorial.

The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, 1940’s weekend organising committee

  • 2025: They very generously gave us a pitch free of charge at this year’s event.

Haworth 1940’s weekend organising committee

  • 2019: They very generously gave us a pitch free of charge at this year’s event.
  • 2018: They very generously gave us a pitch free of charge at this year’s event.
  • 2017: They very generously gave us a pitch free of charge at this year’s event.
  • 2016: They very generously gave us a pitch free of charge at this year’s event.

Katherine Roberts, Chair of Keighley Royal British Legion Branch, Keighley Town Councillor (retired)

  • 2015: Made a very generous personal donation towards the work of our group.
  • 2015: Supplied us with a digital projector and screen for our talks.

Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council

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    • 2015: The parish council funded our Ancestry membership for one year, and an amount to enable us to purchase and download several regimental war diaries from the National Archives to aid us in our research.

Note: They are now just Haworth and Stanbury Parish Council, as Cross Roads now has their own council.

Oakworth Village Society

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  • 2015: Contributed to the reception funds for Private Herbert Moore’s headstone unveiling.

Oakworth Forward

  • 2013: Funded the creation of a new roll of honour for Oakworth Village (Unveiled at Holden Hall in November 2019.)

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  • 2012: Partly funded a reception after the unveiling of Private Herbert Moore’s CWGC headstone (unveiled in November 2015.)
  • 2011: Funded our membership of Ancestry.co.uk for three years, to enable us to carry out our research.

CNet Bradford

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  • 2010: Oakworth Forward (now defunct) applied for a grant through CNet on our behalf for funding to produce the previous incarnation of our website and set up our wiki database.

Other funding

  • We would also like to mention the many donations given to us over the years from groups whom we have given talks to, and from members of the public who have just put money in our collecting tin, most have been anonymous but you know who you are… Thank you very much indeed for your continuing support!

Not funding per se, but certainly supportive:

  • Expert support from Nigel Peck, who helped us enormously with the previous incarnation of our website and his original development of the 2013 version of our website, which was above and beyond the call of duty.
  • Expert support from another Web designer who helped us enormously with the 2025 rebuilding of our website, we can’t thank them enough.

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