Press releases

A team of budding gardeners have transformed the entrance to a community garden with the help of one of Britain’s best-loved gardeners, Charlie Dimmock.

Volunteers from the Park View Café in Cardiff have put the finishing touches to a giant 1.5 metre-squared Lottery ball shaped cake, which will then be shared with café regulars and the local community.

Members of the East End Healthy Living Centre in Glasgow took part in a workout with a difference – an exercise class using giant Lottery gym balls.

A new generation of millwrights are well on their way to helping restore some of the Norfolk Broads most beautiful landmarks, thanks to Lottery funding.

Deaghlan O'Hagan and James Loughrey kicked off the new season with a difference this year – using giant Lottery balls! They gave a special training session down at St Brigids in South Belfast's Musgrave Park this week, to say ‘Thank You’ to Lottery players.  St Brigids GAC recently celebrated its first 10 years in existence as an ‘open door’ policy sports club - welcoming Catholics and Protestants, men and women, children and adults, to play Gaelic football, hurling and ladies football.

Members of TWIGS (Therapeutic Gardening Work in Swindon) are putting the finishing touches to the world’s largest willow Lottery-ball.

Identical twin sisters Helen and Carol Galashan are two of a kind, and they’re taking part in a special performance - diving into a pool filled with giant Lottery balls to celebrate the vital part that Lottery funding has played in helping them to become British diving champions.

An unlikely collection of street artists gathered in the West Midlands today (4th Feb) as senior citizens joined their young friends and BBC2’s ‘The Culture Show’ presenter, Lauren Laverne, to create a giant mural.

England striker Peter Crouch inspires inner city youths at a special training session.