# Big Lottery in NI hands out £1 million

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/05/24/big-lottery-ni-hands-out-1-million/
- Published: 2011-05-24T23:14:19+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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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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