The National Lottery Awards 2009 winners announced
Howard Lake | 17 September 2009 | News
The winners of The National Lottery Awards 2009 have been announced. Harbour Place Day Centre was named the UK’s best Lottery-funded voluntary/charity project, beating hundreds of projects from across the UK.
The National Lottery Awards are designed to find and recognise "the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects".
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By winning the Best Voluntary/Charity Project in association with woman magazine, Harbour Place Day Centre received a £2,000 cash prize to spend on the project.
The runners-up in the Best Voluntary/Charity Project category in association with woman magazine were:
· Fledglings, a national charity that supports the families of children with any disability or special need, from dyspraxia to life threatening illnesses
· The National Autistic Society’s Out of School Clubs, based in the South-West, which provide a safe environment for children and young people with autism to develop friendships, try something new and have fun
The winners of the other 2009 National Lottery Awards were:
· Best Arts Project: Sefton Performing Arts and Creative Education Centre
· Best Education Project: Tower Hamlets Summer University
· Best Environment Project: RSPB Dearne Valley – Old Moor Nature Reserve
· Best Health Project, in association with FemaleFirst.co.uk: The Jennifer Trust’s Spinal Muscular Atrophy Outreach Service
· Best Heritage Project: Restoration of Stourport-on-Severn Canal Basins
· Best Sports Project: Community Sports Pavilion
Since The National Lottery began in November 1994, more than £23 billion has been raised for good causes with over 325,000 grants given out across arts, sport, heritage, charities, health, education and the environment.
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.