Through the Big Decision, you the British public, told The Big Lottery Fund where you felt £10 million of Lottery funding should go.
We had a great response and received over 300 comments including:
'Spend it on educating people to eat healthily and to tie up the link between food choice and ill health.'
'Encouraging cross-generation events between schools and the elderly is also important and is beneficial to all.'
'More money could be put into transportation schemes, greener living schemes, getting communities involved in where they live and taking pride in where they live.'
'Local communities to bring people together both in deprived areas and activities for children that will instil old fashioned morals and principles instead of being materialistic i.e. getting children, teenagers out to help others.'
'I would want to set up a supported employment charity for people with mental health, learning and brain injury disabilities.'
BIG took this feedback and combined it with the results of an Ipsos MORI poll, conducted with 2,000 people from across the UK, to help decide the five distinct project types that the Millennium Now programme will fund. Those project types are:
1. Helping disadvantaged families to be healthy and live well.
2. Helping different generations to share their skills with each other.
3. Getting communities volunteering to address environmental issues.
4. Bringing people together to tackle local issues.
5. Helping disadvantaged young people to learn new career-based skills.
If you are interested in applying to the programme you can find out more on the The Big Lottery Fund website. Or, if you know an organisation who might be interested please do tell them about it.
Thanks to all of you who have submitted comments to the site, suggesting which themes and charities should be supported. Although you can still read the comments submitted by the public here, we're no longer inviting comments to feed into the decision-making process.
