- Area:
- Wales
- Programme:
- Jubilee Peoples Millions
- Release date:
- 31 5 2012
Members of a Cardiff charity enjoyed a once in a lifetime opportunity yesterday meeting Her Majesty the Queen at a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.
Angela Jones and Karen Lowe from Age Concern Cardiff & The Vale of Glamorgan were attending the event as part of their involvement in The Jubilee People’s Millions – a Lottery funding competition to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, run by the Big Lottery Fund in partnership with ITV and with the approval of Buckingham Palace.
The group took part in the Jubilee People’s Millions competition last year, which was televised on ITV Wales news. They went head to head with another charity competing for the funding, with the public voting them most deserving of a Big Lottery Fund grant of over £23,000.
The group won the funding for their intergenerational history project Journeys, Living Links with the Past.
The project involves pupils from local high schools interviewing residents of care homes in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan about their lives and experiences throughout the reign of the Queen. The interviews are being recorded and played in residential homes, local radio and libraries, and also documented in ‘life books’ which the care home residents get to keep and pass on to their families.
Angela Jones, Journeys Project Co-ordinator, who attended the Garden Party alongside Advocacy Worker Karen Lowe, said: “Meeting the Queen was absolutely amazing – a complete honour. She was really lovely, really put us at our ease. She was very interested in the Journeys project and what we did - the interviews and the involvement of the students - it was absolutely fantastic.”
Further Information
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Out of Hours Contact: 07760 171 431
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 close to £100,000 a day in National 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 £28 billion has now been raised and more than 383,000 grants given out across the arts, sport, heritage, charities, health, education and the environment.
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