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.

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