Lottery cash for study of Huddersfield Asian community

Nov 24 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A LOTTERY grant will help Huddersfield’s Asian community trace some of their roots.

The £23,400 grant will enable Huddersfield’s Pakistani Youth Forum to research the lives of many of the town’s early Asian immigrants.

Young volunteer members of Huddersfield’s Pakistani Youth Forum will help to lead the project that has been backed by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).

Helping them on their journey of discovery will be the Huddersfield Pakistani Community Alliance which has been awarded the grant from the HLF’s Young Roots programme.

The year-long project, called Desi to Pardesi, is beginning this month and will help the young volunteers learn how the first generation of immigrants arriving in Yorkshire during the 1950s and 1960s had to adapt to new and very unfamiliar surroundings.