Big Lottery in NI hands out £1 million
Howard Lake | 24 May 2011 | News
The Big Lottery in Northern Ireland has awarded nearly £1 million to Northern Ireland projects supporting vulnerable young people, the first grants made under its young people’s programme.
Phoenix ADHD Project Limited is one of two organisations awarded grants totalling over £940,000 from the Big Lottery Fund’s ‘Reaching out: Empowering Young People’ programme which supports young people most at risk in Northern Ireland, including those who have been in care, involved in crime or who have become disengaged from education.
The Coleraine charity will use £499,911 to run a range of programmes supporting young people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Co. Antrim and Co. Derry.
North West charity Liberty Consortium has also been awarded £444,264 to run horticulture training and education programmes for vulnerable young people aged 15-19 with learning disabilities.
The decision to award the funding has been helped by four young people recruited by the Big Lottery Fund from across Northern Ireland. The young people, who have experience of the challenges facing young people at risk, are sitting on the programme’s decision-making committee.
The Empowering Young People programme has £20 million to distribute by June 2012.
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
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