Lottery-funded charities invited to enter National Lottery Awards
Howard Lake | 28 February 2008 | News
Charity and voluntary sector projects funded by the National Lottery are being invited to enter The National Lottery Awards to find “the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded charity project”.
This year, winning projects will receive a £2,000 prize to spend on their project, and have their achievements highlighted on a BBC1 programme later in the year.
There are seven categories in the awards covering sport, heritage, arts, environment, voluntary/charity, health, and education. The first round of public voting will open 16 June, with a deadline of 4 July. A second round of public voting will take place between 21 July and 8 August and the winners will be announced during a special BBC1 television programme later in the year
Since The National Lottery began in 1994, Lottery players have raised £20 billion for Good Causes and over 280,000 grants have been given out.
Any Lottery-funded project, large or small, can enter or be nominated. The deadline for nominations is 5pm on 20 March 2008.
www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.