StretfordEnd
28th April 2006, 14:16
Following on from the ludicrous decision to award Manchester United £30,000 to improve the fitness of their employees:
26th April 2006
The Champion chartered accountants firm has been given £35,744 to bring in a female salsa teacher to take classes at the firm's headquarters in Salford
14th April 2006
The survival of an endangered beetle has been secured after being discovered in the Vale of Evesham. The Noble Chafer is to have its habitat saved after the Cleeve Prior Heritage Trust were given help to buy rare orchards by the Heritage Lottery Fund. A grant of £16,500 from the fund will enable them to purchase 2.5 acres of traditional orchards as a community orchard.
4th April 2006
The Bath-based American Museum has been awarded a £450,500 Heritage Lottery Fund grant to create an exhibition celebrating 200 years of history. The exhibition will feature a full interpretation of US history over a 200-year period from colonialism to the 20th century.
7th September 2005
£48,000 lottery award for a project for schools on gypsy and travelling communities. The fund has given a grant to Hampshire Council for a project on the traditions of travelling communities.
24th February 2004
The film, The Sex Lives of the Potato Men, which stars comedian Johnny Vegas, was made by a West Midlands-based production company with the help of a £900,000 award.
27th February 2003
The future of a Herefordshire-based magazine for travellers has been guaranteed for the next three years thanks to a £200,000 lottery grant. The Travellers Times was launched five years ago by the Hereford's Rural Media Company. The magazine aims to highlight the concerns of the travelling community across the UK.
4th December 2002
Work is being carried out to revamp one of Norwich's most unusual historic buildings - a disused urinal. The 10-sided toilet on St Crispin's Road dates back to 1919 and is believed to be the oldest surviving concrete urinal in the UK. It has been granted Grade II listed status, and is now being renovated at a cost of £27,000.
Other parties that have benefitted from lottery payouts include projects on Nubian heritage, African dishes and a study on dreadlocks has also been successful.
Other controversial grants include £420,000 to help Peruvian farmers to breed edible guinea pigs, £20,000 on teaching prisoners to play the xylophone and an award of £17,500 for the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood to do up her home.
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26th April 2006
The Champion chartered accountants firm has been given £35,744 to bring in a female salsa teacher to take classes at the firm's headquarters in Salford
14th April 2006
The survival of an endangered beetle has been secured after being discovered in the Vale of Evesham. The Noble Chafer is to have its habitat saved after the Cleeve Prior Heritage Trust were given help to buy rare orchards by the Heritage Lottery Fund. A grant of £16,500 from the fund will enable them to purchase 2.5 acres of traditional orchards as a community orchard.
4th April 2006
The Bath-based American Museum has been awarded a £450,500 Heritage Lottery Fund grant to create an exhibition celebrating 200 years of history. The exhibition will feature a full interpretation of US history over a 200-year period from colonialism to the 20th century.
7th September 2005
£48,000 lottery award for a project for schools on gypsy and travelling communities. The fund has given a grant to Hampshire Council for a project on the traditions of travelling communities.
24th February 2004
The film, The Sex Lives of the Potato Men, which stars comedian Johnny Vegas, was made by a West Midlands-based production company with the help of a £900,000 award.
27th February 2003
The future of a Herefordshire-based magazine for travellers has been guaranteed for the next three years thanks to a £200,000 lottery grant. The Travellers Times was launched five years ago by the Hereford's Rural Media Company. The magazine aims to highlight the concerns of the travelling community across the UK.
4th December 2002
Work is being carried out to revamp one of Norwich's most unusual historic buildings - a disused urinal. The 10-sided toilet on St Crispin's Road dates back to 1919 and is believed to be the oldest surviving concrete urinal in the UK. It has been granted Grade II listed status, and is now being renovated at a cost of £27,000.
Other parties that have benefitted from lottery payouts include projects on Nubian heritage, African dishes and a study on dreadlocks has also been successful.
Other controversial grants include £420,000 to help Peruvian farmers to breed edible guinea pigs, £20,000 on teaching prisoners to play the xylophone and an award of £17,500 for the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood to do up her home.
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