LRE Foundation comes to the UK

The international remembrance organisation has launched its national branch in the UK. The

LRE Foundation is an international organisation behind various remembrance projects such as Liberation Route Europe – the certified Cultural Route following in the footsteps of the Allied advance in WWII, and Europe Remembers – the online portal for remembrance events and sites throughout Europe. By establishing LRE UK, the foundation intends to extend its network, and connect and promote the main sites of the WWII British history and heritage by including them in the Liberation Route Europe trails network.

Historian and battlefield guide, Ben Mayne has been appointed as Director of the LRE UK and will help the LRE Foundation on setting up new projects in the country..

The LRE UK’s main ambition is to develop the Liberation Route UK, a network of British remembrance trails that will link to the Liberation Route Europe hiking trails, an international route connecting sites that commemorate the British and Allies advance to liberate Europe in WWII. With this network of trails, the LRE UK will work to highlight a vast British cultural landscape that, for the most part, has remained hidden in the past 75 years. In collaboration with the LRE Foundation’s partners, the LRE UK will strive to make this core part of British history more visible and accessible to visitors.

Ben Mayne, director of the

LRE UK said, “As an historian and battlefield guide, I know the importance of creating a lasting legacy for the younger generations and prompting the history and heritage that surround us. LRE UK will look to work alongside councils, tourism boards, schools, forestry commissions and museums to develop further the Liberation

Route UK trails network."

Find out more about the

LRE Foundation and its work at www.lre-foundation.org.