Liverpool's Sefton Performing Arts and Creative Education Centre (SPACE) offers young people a place to develop their skills in drama, dance, music, visual arts and new media, helping them to build their confidence and abilities. SPACE has art rooms, dance and performance studios, a recording studio and an IT room. The project has used Lottery funding to increase its range of activities and to ensure that the classes for people aged 13-19 are available free of charge. Members can also gain AQA accreditations, Youth Achievement Awards and Duke of Edinburgh Awards, building up new valuable skills.

Tower Hamlets Summer University offers a year-round programme of free educational and vocational courses to young people in London aged 11-25. Lottery funding has enabled the project to help thousands of young people make the right choices about their future, through informal, high quality education right across all the London boroughs. Attendees can take part in anything from music to sport, from IT classes, to producing their own magazine or film supported by many different partners from the local community as possible. As well as a wide age range, the project works with many races and ethnicities, helping to break down barriers. And since its creation, youth crime has plummeted in areas that have adopted the model.

Once stark, industrial surroundings have been transformed into a thriving wetland habitat for wildlife, enjoyed and supported by local people in the Dearne Valley. Using Lottery funding, the RSPB has helped to regenerate the local landscape, which for years served the mining industry as a coal depot. This vital second chance has allowed birds and wildlife to flourish in an area recovering from industrial decline. Many supporters now volunteer in the centre and several young residential volunteers actually live on site. Adults with learning disabilities and teenagers who are not in education or employment visit regularly to help with the upkeep of the reserve, enabling them with new skills and the experience of working in an environmental and visitor setting.

The UK-wide outreach service supports families whose babies are born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) providing vital support to help them through what can often be an incredibly difficult time. Coping with the condition is particularly difficult due to the short time scales involved, and because it can be hard to diagnose. Because SMA is so rare, hospital and social services staff often have very limited experience. Lottery funding enabled The Jennifer Trust to address that gap by funding two outreach workers, who provide support to families of children newly diagnosed with Type I and Type II SMA across the whole of the UK.

This heritage restoration project in Stourport has created new community areas and tourist attractions. Stourport's canal basins played a vital role in developing the UK's canal transport system and the project enabled the restoration of canal structures such as locks and 29 buildings, and the landscaping of public areas. The five canal basins that make up the docks where the narrow boats were loaded and unloaded have now been restored and turned into a major community resource and tourist attraction.

The Beragh Red Knights' Community Sports Pavilion sits within a rural community in Northern Ireland and attracts people of all ages and from all communities to take part in a range of activities including dance, drama and exercise classes for young and old, male and female. When the project decided to create a new community room using Lottery funding, they made a groundbreaking choice - to make it available to all members of the community, irrespective of religious background. This was a major step for a the Gaelic Athletic Association Club which had, for the past 100 years, exclusively facilitated the sporting and cultural needs of the Catholic population.

Harbour Place Day Centre supports the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in North East Lincolnshire such as those who are homeless, unemployed, care-leavers or with disabilities. The project provides shelter, meals, clinics and educational resources, whilst also supporting people to get back into the employment market through its volunteering programme. With the help of Lottery funding, Harbour Place has been able to support a large number of people to turn their lives around. It has been able to increase its core services to include one-to-one counselling, housing advice, and referral and appeals assistance and 45 people a day currently pass through its doors.