Sentences with phrase «lottery funding»

Furthermore, in 2012 the legislature changed the lottery formula so that a smaller percentage goes to education and has dipped into lottery funds for other state programs.

Another interesting example is that a number of religious organisations will not apply for lottery funding since it represents the proceeds of gambling.

These new funds will be added to and not replace existing state aid, including lottery funding for schools.

This unfortunately is the tail end of an art boom which saw government and lottery funding pumped into the provinces for over a decade.

Using a national Heritage Lottery Fund grant, the building will modernise displays and says it will be aim to appeal to those who would not normally be able to enjoy a visit.

An initial investment by the BIG Lottery Fund of # 16.9 million has helped develop and test delivery methods.

Durham Cathedral is being awarded # 1 million of National Lottery funding for a multi-million pound conversation and repair programme.

'' The Sainsbury's 2013 School Games, which is supported by National Lottery funding from Sport England and delivered by the Youth Sport Trust, was held in venues across Sheffield from 12 - 15 September 2013.

The latest revamp has been paid for by a major Heritage Lottery Fund grant and scores of donations from trusts, private donors, and members of the public — an effort that Tate chairman Lord Browne described as a model of how to achieve major projects through philanthropic giving.

The project has received National Lottery funding through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's Architecture Special Initiative to tour to MCAC,

In addition, ambitious heritage project My Bluecoat, which has been developed with Heritage Lottery Fund support, will take place throughout 2017, telling the Bluecoat's 300 - year story.

It's also a troubling trend of supplanting education funding using lottery funds when they should be used to enhance the education of our students.»

It received additional attention with its successful «Powerball Promise Campaign» which is credited with prompting the Kentucky legislature to recommit $ 14 million of state lottery funds to support need - based college scholarships in 2016.

The Anne Frank House has been a beneficiary of BankGiro Lottery funding since 2007, receiving $ 200,000 per year.

After ten years in the planning and a capital investment of # 50m, including # 33.4 m from the Arts Council Lottery Fund, Baltic opened to the public at midnight on Saturday 13 July 2002.

Welcoming the news Stuart Valentine, Chief Executive of Relationships Scotland, said: «Relationships Scotland is delighted that the Big Lottery Fund in Scotland has provided # 1.5 m over five years to support child contact centres across the country.

The heritage work at Jodrell Bank is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of our «First Light at Jodrell Bank» project.

Should the French government be launching a heritage lottery fund when the UK version is in decline?

Joanne McDowell, Big Lottery Fund NI Director said: «We are delighted to be funding these projects through our Supporting Families programme.

The service is an updated and bespoke version of the Big Lottery funded Relative Experience programme previously run by Grandparents Plus in partnership with Family Lives.

Louise Sutherland from the Hertiage Lottery Fund said: «The bell ringing simulator is as you might expect, it simulates ringing bells in a group, so that you can learn as a single person without the need for a full set of eight ringers.

The team spent the day clearing scrub from a Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve in the Polden Hills, improving the habitat networks as part of a Heritage Lottery Fund project to ensure these threatened butterflies become more sustainable and spread to new areas within the landscape.

Isobel Bilsland, Manager, Relationships Scotland Borders, said: «We are delighted to have been awarded this grant by the Big Lottery Fund which will allow us to stabilise and expand our very busy contact service and family support work.

In my first two years as a comedian I would have needed lottery funding to be scraping minimum wage, but you do it because you feel called or compelled, and you hope that people will start to take notice.

The National Lottery funded programme - which is being supported financially by Liverpool Mutual Homes and Your Housing - is attempting to raise the statistic that only 22.6 per cent of people — around 3,200 — living in Liverpool with a limiting disability are involved in physical activity once a week.

Led by The Children's Society, Hidden is part of The Big Lottery funded Young Carers in Focus partnership programme (YCiF), of which the Fatherhood Institute is part.

The group, aged between 12 and 14, will first see the activities offered by a traditional youth centre, a multi-million pound lottery funded facility called «Myplace», as well as a sports outreach service which makes use of local venues.

Creates a New York State Gaming Commission Account to pay administrative expenses of the New York State Gaming Commission, funded with monies transferred from the state lottery fund administration account, the regulation of racing account, the bell jar collection account and / or the regulation of Indian gaming account.

Mr Hunt said: «After a decade of slashing lottery funding for grassroots sport, government policy is still failing to get a grip in the run up to 2012.»

David Cameron suggested lottery funding would be restricted to British movies with mainstream appeal today, as he outlined major changes to the sector.

The report, «Looked after children and Offending: Reducing Risk and Promoting Resilience», is the result of a two year Big Lottery funded research project and makes over 30 recommendations for government, local authorities and agencies working in the criminal justice system.

«We want to help as many people as possible with our work, so when our funding with the Big Lottery Fund ended and we were approached by Tesco's Eat Happy Project, we were really excited about Let's Get Cooking's future.»

That's why Let's Get Cooking is growing: recently, it was chosen as one of the first projects in the country to receive Health Lottery funding from the People's Health Trust to improve health in local communities.

In 2013 the Heritage Lottery Fund announced new research showing that heritage based tourism is now worth # 26.4 billion to the UK economy and rising.

Stuart Hobley, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund London, said: «This wonderful project enables children to learn about natural heritage and how vital it is for society.

Under our new strategy, we will also make # 10 million of National Lottery funding available to help this process of opening up school sport facilities for wider public use and help them maximise the use of all their pools, pitches and sports halls.

In 2016, we campaigned for the legislature to follow the original intent of the law and distribute lottery funds to need - based college scholarships.

The answer to that, some education advocates would say, may have come Wednesday from Rep. Ed Hanes Jr., a Democrat from Forsyth County who co-sponsored Democrats» lottery funding bill.

Lottery funds go to worthy causes like schools and the arts, so which is better?

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The project has faced some local opposition, and critics have expressed doubts as to whether the trust will be able to submit a # 10m Heritage Lottery Fund bid later this year.

Heritage Lottery Fund pledges # 9.4 m towards project that will see London gallery loan Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe and other famous canvases to museums throughout the UK

East Kent has been chosen as one of sixteen places across England to receive a significant investment as part of the # 20million Lottery funded Great Place Scheme, a partnership between...

But the loss earlier this year of # 152m over the next four years of lottery funding committed to the arts and heritage, coming on top of earlier losses, was a serious blow.

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Sir Nicholas Serota said: «I am extremely grateful to all the donors, foundations and the Heritage Lottery Fund who have helped us reach our funding target.