Culture Healing Communities, a social enterprise in Durham that works with community heritage has just released a website about the Black Troops during the WW2 in the North, with the support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Working with ethnic minorities for several years, the research about the Black Troops in the North, has revealed many hidden memories from local people, culminating in a release of a website https://unforgettableww2blackheroes.co.uk/.

There will be a second part, which is still under preparation, regarding the Commonwealth Black Troops, including the Caribbean, Africa and India, who came to support the war effort during the Second World War.

This project focused on areas in Yorkshire, Newcastle, Gateshead, Durham, Sunderland, North and South Tyne, and all the surrounding areas, and aims to create awareness about the importance of the Black troops to local history and heritage, whilst bringing faces, names and memories to be visible to the public and to educate present and future generations.

This is a vital project, that was never done before and the content that is already visible has been receiving several compliments from academics and organisations involved in history and ethnic minorities.