National Lottery Awards 2018 Voting Opened

Posted on July 20, 2018

Voting is now open for the National Lottery Awards until 11:59pm on Friday 27^th July, with 6 Scottish groups shortlisted across 7 categories:

FDAMH’s Freedom of Mind Choir (Falkirk)
Kingdom Off Road Motorcycle Club (Fife)
Senior Centre Castlemilk (Castlemilk)
The Ecology Centre (Kinghorn, Fife)
the Whale Track app (developed by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust)
Fares4Free (a Scotland-wide veteran support charity)

The National Lottery Awards is the annual search for the UK’s favourite National Lottery-funded projects, aiming to celebrate the people and projects doing extraordinary things with National Lottery funding all across the UK.

Now in their 15^th year, the Awards recognise the difference that Lottery-funded projects have made to people, places and communities across the UK through the 535,000 grants awarded since 1994.

The winning project will receive £5,000 and appear on the BBC One awards show.

To vote, or for further information on all the finalists, please visit the National Lottery Awards website.

printfriendly pdf email button md

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Compassionate and Included Communities Forum: Next Meeting

The first 2021 meeting of the Compassionate and Included Communities Forum takes place on Wednesday 27th January, 2pm – 4pm, and can be accessed via the Zoom link, or with the meeting ID: 972 2993 0991.

Scottish Government COVID-19 Research Participants

Scottish Government researchers are recruiting people to help them better understand and predict the next stages of the COVID-19 epidemic in Scotland. People are eligible to take part if they live in Scotland and are aged 18 years old or over. Participants will be sent a survey every 2 weeks by email. Participation in the surveys is entirely voluntary, and participants can opt out of receiving or completing them at any time.

CHS Panel Member Volunteers

Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS) is now recruiting volunteer Panel Members, and accepting online applications until 11:59pm on Monday 15th February. Panel Members take part in children’s hearings, often otherwise known as “children’s panels”, where their role is to listen and make legal decisions for, and with, infants, children and young people. Panel Members are supported by CHS, and are required to undertake comprehensive training to prepare them for the role.

Third Sector Homelessness Fund: Open for Applications

The Third Sector Homelessness Fund is open to applications from third sector organisations on the frontline of delivering homelessness services in Scotland. The fund aims to support third sector organisations to innovate and transform the services they provide to people around homelessness; organisations that originally applied to this fund in early 2020 will need to complete a new application for funding. The deadline for applications is 12pm on Monday 8th February.