Peace partners Celebrate National lottery's 25th Birthday

It was so exciting, and such a big step forward in recognition for Peace Partners, to receive the news in March of the award of a grant of £10,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund. This grant continues to enable Peace Partners to extend its support of community and youth projects and for the facilitation of Peace Education Programmes.

Coincidently this year is also the 25th anniversary of the National Lottery and a UK-wide series of celebratory and awareness raising events is planned, leading up to the actual Lottery birthday on 19th November.  Since 1994 more than £40 billion has been raised by the Lottery Fund and used to support an enormously diverse range of community activities throughout the UK.

It is a great opportunity to remind everyone of our grant and what it is being used for. Ways in which Peace Partners is becoming involved in the celebrations include:

• Contacting local media, newspapers and radio and explaining what we have been able to do with the funding
• Informing Peace Partners’ participants and beneficiaries and encouraging them to share their personal stories on social media #NationalLottery25 
• Using 25th logo (above) on our website and in all our communications with other organisations and individuals                                                           
• We wish to thank all the people who play the National Lottery, without which there would be no Lottery funds to donate to good causes. 

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As grateful recipients of lottery funding we are very happy to join in with the National Lottery 25th birthday celebrations and to raise awareness of the National Lottery.