MTI have long been partners with Talbot House on projects such as the 2014 Christmas Truce tour and 2018 King’s Shilling Tour and of course MTI groups visit the Pool of Peace on every tour we lead. Most recently in November 2022 our TH friends gave us a warm welcome and hosted us on our first trip back to Flanders since 2020.
Now we’re making a more formal, long-term commitment to the friendship and legacy of Talbot House.
LAUNCHING 2024 - Annual MTI Donation to Talbot House:
- MTI pledges to donate £50 per school travelling on the MTI Battlefield Experience, annually
- The donation will be used to preserve TH artefacts in order to bring history alive through storytelling.
- This will be guaranteed minimum of £1000 per year, in perpetuity
Kat Brogan, Managing Director of MTI explains:
‘Mercat Tours International cherishes our friendship with Talbot House. We both believe in the power of stories from the Great War to make connections and move minds, giving a new understanding and gratitude for our lives and world today.
For over three decades every guest travelling on an MTI Battlefield Experience have begun their journey at the Pool of Peace, one of the Messines mines blown in June 1917. This impressive war relic was purchased on the initiative of TH Padre Tubby Clayton so that future generations would have a powerful view of the story, a message that resonates with MTI. Today it is a compelling scene of beauty and message of peace, from war.
In the spirit of the Pals, of Peace and our shared belief that history needs ‘a damn good telling’ we’re delighted to make this annual pledge to Talbot House. Our donations will help preserve this remarkable house, its artefacts and stories for ‘every man’ who visits now and in perpetuity.
The growth and impact of MTI & TH are now connected directly through this pledge. We share our stories and success together.
Every MTI guide will reveal to every MTI Pal that they now have a unique and personal connection to TH, forever.’
