When we reached the Final Stage with the Big Lottery - we asked a lot of you for your help in voting for us to secure a People's Millions grant.

This is a Big Lottery award programme aimed at helping to make the local community a better place in which to live by improving the environment. After careful vetting by the Big Lottery, the public chooses the winning project by telephone vote. This is where YOUR VOTES helped us.

The project we put forward for this grant is called Play Away and is to complete the funding for the development of specialist play areas for the children in the Centre's garden.
A promotional film about our project was screened on ITV "Meridian Tonight" on Tuesday 14th November when the public was asked to vote between ours and one other project.
We were informed of the result during the morning of 15 November when a Meridian TV crew arrived to film our reaction for the evening broadcast of "Meridian Tonight".

Link to Big Lottery Fund website ... Including Rainbow Centre Broadcast details

The PLAY AWAY project description

A sensory garden and specialist play area for children and adults with disabilities attending the Rainbow Centre and from the local community.

Key features will include:

• Full disabled easy access for people with disabilities of all ages.
• Raised borders for those in wheelchairs.
• Sensory garden accessible for people of all ages and abilities.
• Play equipment specially designed for children and adults with motor impairments.
• Specialist safety flooring that encourages activities whilst reducing the risk of injuries.

Click here for more details of our garden projects including other funders ...