- Area:
- Wales
- Programme:
- Awards for All Wales
- Release date:
- 23 2 2012
Groups organising events to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee and others supporting environmental projects are among those benefiting from the latest round of National Lottery funding.
A total of 57 community-based projects across Wales are today sharing in £238,625 awarded under the latest round of the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All small grants programme.
Cosh Callout in Pembrokeshire will use its £3,896 to organise five community events to celebrate the Jubilee in June including a school fete, street party and Royal Olympic Games while Knighton Town Council in Powys receives £3,700 to fund a similar celebration at a community centre.
In Blaenau Gwent, Made in Tredegar gets £4,956 to give local people the opportunity to make two short films about experiences of living in the area and in the neighbouring county, Torfaen and District Sea Conservation Club will use £5,000 to buy an inflatable boat so they can help clean coastlines.
The Swallow Laryngectomy Club in Cardiff receives £1,847 to take members recovering from larynx removal surgery on visits to increase their confidence while Tybie Photographic Society in Carmarthenshire will spend £3,620 on producing a Welsh culture booklet.
Cyclists in Gwynedd are set to benefit from a £1,262 grant which will fund a bike rental service from the Caban Cysgu Gerlan centre in Nethesda and on a similar environmentally-friendly theme, Ten Green Bottles Powys CIC gets £4,950 to establish a centre in New Radnor to show local people how to go green cost effectively.
Grants are also being awarded to groups with wider Wales’ benefits. These include the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which will spend £5,000 on setting up a support network for young sufferers and Pulmonary Fibrosis Wales which receives £3,090 to raise awareness about the respiratory disease.
Gareth Williams, Awards for All Programme Manager for BIG in Wales, said: “Awards for All is having a positive impact throughout Wales. Money is helping to establish groups, societies and clubs, promoting learning, increasing volunteering opportunities and helping to build stronger communities.”
Available in English and Welsh, the application form for the programme can be downloaded, completed and emailed direct to the Big Lottery Fund as well as being available in hard copy.
Application forms are available from www.awardsforall.org.uk or by phone on 0845 4 10 20 30.
A full list of awards announced today in Wales.
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Further Information
Big Lottery Fund Press Office: 02920 678 224
Out of Hours Contact: 07500 951 707
Public Enquiries Line: 08454 102030
Textphone: 0845 6021 659
Full details of the Big Lottery Fund programmes and grant awards are available at: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Notes to Editors
- In Wales, the Big Lottery Fund is rolling out £100,000 a day in Lottery good cause money, which together with other Lottery distributors means that across Wales most people are within a few miles of a Lottery-funded project.
- The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK since its inception in June 2004. It was established by Parliament on 1 December 2006.
- Since the National Lottery began in 1994, 28p from every pound spent by the public has gone to Good Causes. As a result, over £26 billion has now been raised and more than 330,000 grants given out across the arts, sport, heritage, charities, health, education and the environment.
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