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National Lottery Awards 2008 (UK)
The National Lottery Awards are an annual search to find the UK's favourite
Lottery-funded projects. The Awards aim to recognise the difference that
Lottery-funded projects - both large and small - have made to people, places and
communities, all across the UK. They also celebrate the talent, hard work and
dedication of the people involved in running Lottery-funded projects.
This year, the Awards are in seven categories that reflect the different types
of projects that benefit from Lottery funding.
The categories
are:
The Woman
Magazine Award for Best Charity/Voluntary Project.
The winning project in each category will win a cash prize of £2,000 to spend on
the project. The Awards are also a great way to raise awareness of your project
and the difference it makes to your community, as well as the people that
benefit from it. The National Lottery Awards team works closely with local,
regional and national media to promote the Awards and the projects involved, and
the winners of each category will be announced on a special BBC1 show.
To register with the Awards and submit an online entry form visit:
www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards/submitentry/
You can also nominate a Lottery-funded project for an Award by telephoning:
0845 130 4133.
! Entries must be submitted by 5pm on
Thursday 20 March. !
The entries will be assessed by an independent body called Lottery Monitor,
which has the job of monitoring the use of Lottery funding. An independent
judging panel will then consider the entries, and shortlist 10 projects in each
category to go through to the first round of public voting. This first round of
public voting will run from 16 June to 4 July, with voting available online and
by telephone.
The three projects in each category with the most votes will progress to the
final round, which will run from 21 July to 8 August.
The votes are
reset to zero for the final round of public voting, and the winners will be
announced on a special BBC1 show in the autumn.
For more information about the Awards contact:
Matthew Mansfield
Tel: 020 7211 1855
Email:
matthew.mansfield@lotterygoodcauses.org.uk
Or Corin Brett
Tel: 020 7211 1684
Email:
corin.brett@lotterygoodcauses.org.uk
Or visit the website:
www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards
Please note: the National Lottery Awards have become aware of a scam
whereby fraudsters are using details about the Awards to try to convince people
they have won a sum of money. These are hoaxes and organisations are advised
never reply to such emails or give out any personal details or money in
response.
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