What’s New
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Taking action for Mental Health Awareness Week
8th May 2026
This Mental Health Awareness Week (11–17 May), we’re embracing the theme Take Action and encouraging everyone to support good mental health. Discover ten simple, everyday tips from the Mental Health Foundation and try what works best for you.
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World Autism Acceptance Month: How National Lottery funding is helping Chameleon bring autistic voices to the stage
29th April 2026
This World Autism Acceptance Month, we're celebrating Chameleon, a dark comedy play supported by National Lottery funding that explores life as a newly diagnosed autistic woman with honesty and humour.
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Read all about it: From bookish Bradford’s City of Culture legacy to the nationwide Year of Reading 2026
22nd April 2026
£1bn+ of National Lottery literary links - the latest chapter being The Book of Bradford (2025), 11 short stories grace National Year of Reading 2026 - writer Nick Ahad reflects on his story and his home city of Bradford
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Built to last: The growing legacy of a National Lottery funded scheme for Heritage skills
17th April 2026
A bursary scheme backed by The National Lottery Heritage Fund gave 27 people up to two years of hands-on Heritage skills training. We tracked down one graduate and their employer to ask about the jobs won, the careers changed, and why 41% of those who trained in 'traditionally male' heritage trades were women.
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Flying down the slopes: how National Lottery funding is giving children with additional needs the thrill of skiing
13th March 2026
As ParalympicsGB competed at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics, a National Lottery-funded charity in Wales showed how grassroots sport can change lives.
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Baroness Twycross visits the Foundling Museum for National Lottery Open Week
12th March 2026
Baroness Twycross joined The National Lottery at one of London's most-loved hidden gems, highlighting how National Lottery funding is transforming communities across the UK.
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Revealing the "HiDDEN" during National Lottery Open Week
12th March 2026
A medieval library, working class movements, a Victorian courtoom and more: five interviews and a 30-year dataset reveal the 'HiDDEN Network' connecting Britain’s reform heritage and the Mancunian spirit - all helped by National Lottery funding.
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From cosmos to classroom: National Lottery Open Week meets British Science Week
12th March 2026
Data-driven dive into nearly £3b of National Lottery funds to science of all kinds - key facilities, research, astronomy clubs, school science projects.
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Three of GB's Paralympic curlers train in a converted bowling hall in Dumfries
12th March 2026
Three of Great Britain’s Paralympic curlers trained in a converted bowling hall in south-west Scotland. As they competed at the Milano-Cortina Winter Games - marking 50 years since the first Winter Paralympics - the venue took part in National Lottery Open Week, offering free sessions to National Lottery players.
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World championships, Olympic medallists, and a wheelchair league on a Wednesday. Welcome to Curl Aberdeen
11th March 2026
Every time you play the National Lottery, a share goes to good causes. Curl Aberdeen is one of them - a community venue built with National Lottery funding, where wheelchair curlers compete as the Winter Paralympics unfold in Italy.
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Last chance to unlock free UK days out in film, science, wildlife and more with a National Lottery ticket
10th March 2026
National Lottery Open Week gives players the chance to explore the extraordinary projects, hidden gems and iconic venues they help fund, through the £32 million raised for good causes every week.
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ParalympicsGB athletes ready to make history in Milano-Cortina 2026
9th March 2026
Jo Butterfield and Jason Kean are heading to the Milano-Cortina Winter Paralympics with ParalympicsGB - and say National Lottery funding has played a vital role in their journey to the Games.