CO-OPERATIVE HERITAGE TRUST LOTTERY GRANT

That this House congratulates the Co-operative Heritage Trust on their recent award of £1,449,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project to enhance Rochdale Pioneers Museum and the National Co-operative Archive in Manchester; applauds the work of the trust in ensuring that people in the North West, and further afield, can access and learn about the internationally significant heritage of the Co-operative movement; and looks forward to the digitisation programme at the archive, architectural works and education and outreach activities at the museum which will now be possible.