Lottery Millions to Help Communities Bloom for Diamond Jubilee

The Big Lottery Fund in partnership with ITV, and with the approval of Buckingham Palace, is marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a special roll-out of four Lottery grants in Wales.

The £60,000 Jubilee People’s Millions awards that inspire or improve local communities are being made to new projects next year.

The Jubilee People’s Millions launches today (Friday 26 Nov) and builds on the success of The People’s Millions which has given the public the chance to vote on which local projects should receive lottery good-cause funding since its launch in 2005. Previous Welsh winners of People's Millions showed their support for the special Jubilee theme by planting a flower bed in the colours of the competition's logo outside Buckingham Palace.

Community groups across the UK are being invited to bid for a share of the £3.6 million from the Big Lottery Fund good cause pot. Finalists will be showcased on ITV regional news when the public will vote and decide which projects receive the Lottery Diamond Jubilee funding.

Gwenda said: ‘I would urge as many people as possible to think about what a difference £60,000 would make to their local area, and apply to the Big Lottery Fund to see if they can benefit from funding’.


Details of how to apply can be found on www.biglotteryfund.org.uk or by phoning 0845 10 20 30. Groups have until 4 February 2011 to get their entries in. The projects that receive the most votes will be awarded the funding next summer (2011), in order to be up and running in time for the Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee year, 2012.