# The National Lottery Awards 2009 winners announced

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/09/17/national-lottery-awards-2009-winners-announced/
- Published: 2009-09-17T14:19:18+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

⌊Allen Young and Sister Hilda Baxter from Harbour Place Day Centre receive the National
Lottery Award for Best Voluntary/Charity Project in association with Woman magazine
from Fay Ripley⌉⌊Allen Young and Sister Hilda Baxter from Harbour Place Day Centre
receive the National Lottery Award for Best Voluntary/Charity Project in association
with Woman magazine from Fay Ripley⌉

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

 

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