A PROJECT which tells the story of children who came to the Lake District after surviving the Holocaust concentration camps is on the lookout for a new home.

The Lake District Holocaust Project, based in Windermere Library, highlights the plight of of 300 child Holocaust Survivors who came from Eastern Europe to the Lake District to begin their recovery from years of unimaginable suffering.

The permanent 'From Auschwitz to Ambleside' exhibition features a vast collection of material and artefacts - but has now outgrown its space.

Now, a new trust, called the Paradise Project, is exploring options to find a bigger home.

Trevor Avery, director of the Paradise Project, said: “We have so much material, interviews, images, artefacts, and really not enough space to show it all or even to do justice to the collection.

"We have to tell the story of the Jewish children who came here and the community that welcomed them, flying boat builders and all, and it is a vast story.”

In 1945, Jewish child Holocaust Survivors came from the concentration camps to the Lake District, staying on the Calgarth estate, where the Lakes School is sited now.

Members of the new trust have been in talks with the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England - among other bodies - to explore future options.

The Paradise Project is also considering carrying out a feasibility study into what options are available in terms of a permanent new home in and near Windermere.

Mr Avery, who is also the Vice President of 45 Aid Society Holocaust Survivors and Generation UK, said: “The Holocaust Project is a national and an international project, that really does belong to Windermere and the Lake District, so we are all determined for it to remain here.”

The Holocaust Project will be taking part in a special Remembrance Day event at the Lakes School tomorrow (January 27) where a plaque will be put up for a tree that was brought to the grounds from Auschwitz.