Three local community groups in Wales have won a public vote to secure up to £50,000 of National Lottery funding as part of this year’s The People’s Projects. The money was awarded after Starlings Aberystwyth, Dal Dy Dir in Powys, and Keep Wales Tidy in Swansea and Rhondda Cynon Taf, won the public.
The Big Lunch is hosting six pop-ups around the UK to raise awareness of how celebrating your community with neighbours, during the 1 and 2 June event, could transform lives.
More Scots recovering from addiction will get a second chance at life as an award winning bicycle refurbishing project in West Lothian today (WED 10 APRIL) receives National Lottery cash to expand its activities and open its doors to more people.
A sports hall in Easterhouse, a disused mill in John O’Groats, an area of amenity land in Strathpeffer and a stretch of foreshore on the Isle of Skye will soon be in the hands of local people as four community groups receive financial support from the Scottish Land Fund.
Many people daydream about winning the National Lottery but imagine how you would feel receiving a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund for your community? This month, grants totalling nearly £3 million have been awarded in Wales.
Budding young artists, dancers and musicians are amongst hundreds of young people across Scotland today celebrating a £1.8 million cash boost that will empower them to develop their skills and talents through a range of creative projects.
People with disabilities, older people, and young people in care are among those benefiting from almost £750,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund (formerly Big Lottery Fund).
Scotland’s only charity providing specialist support for young people who have a diagnosis of Huntington’s disease (HD) in their family is amongst 27 groups across the country today sharing in almost £5 million of cash from the National Lottery Community Fund.
