The National Lottery Awards are the annual search for the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects. The Awards consist of seven categories that reflect the different types of projects that benefit from Lottery funding. The categories are:
•Best Arts Project
•Best Education Project
•Best Environment Project
•Best Health Project
•Best Heritage Project
•Best Sports Project
•Best Charity/Voluntary Project
If you are involved in, or know of, inspirational projects and want to help them win a £2,000 cash prize please contact Michael Theodorou at the Charities Aid Foundation on 01732 520 187 to nominate them in this year’s Awards.
You can also fill in the nomination application form on www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards You can enter more than one category.
The deadline for entries is 5pm on Friday 13 March 2009. A shortlist of 70 projects will be drawn up and public voting will take place between 3 August and 14 August. Each category winner will win £2,000 for their project and a National Lottery Awards trophy, and take part in the National Lottery Awards programme on BBC One in September.
