THE Lake District Holocaust Project has been awarded £32,000 from Arts Council England North West for two programmes of exhibitions in the summer and autumn of 2016 and 2017.

The funding is a major contribution to ‘Holocaust and Memory Reframed’, which will see a series of exhibitions featuring international artists.

The artists involved will include former Tate Turbine Hall exhibitor Miroslaw Balka as well as international textile artist Heather Belcher and a unique installation project by leading Sonic Arts and multimedia artist Ian Walton.

The first exhibition in opens in May and will be a showing for The Memory Quilt Project, a moving display of four large scale quilts made from over 150 squares made by relatives of Holocaust Survivors from across the world.

Families of the children who came to the Lake District in 1945, and arrived directly from the concentration camps, have made a significant number of the squares.

Trevor Avery, Director of the Lake District Holocaust Project, said: "There are exciting plans for the future of the Lake District Holocaust Project and this is a further step towards providing a fitting commemoration in the Lake District to mark the link between the area, its people, and 300 remarkable child Holocaust Survivors.”

The exhibition programme ‘Holocaust and Memory Reframed’ will run in 2016 and 2017 at the Lake District Holocaust Project, Windermere Library.