Swaffham bid for lotto funds again
SWAFFHAM'S sensory garden scheme lost out in the head-to-head battle with Norfolk Deaf Association's Listen Here! project for an £80,000 prize from the Big Lottery on Tuesday night.
But all may not be lost because tonight (Friday) it has a second chance when one of the four runners-up from the eight projects featured on this week's Anglia East news programmes is chosen to win the final 80,000 prize in the People's Millions competition, run in conjunction with ITV.
Members of Swaffham recreation ground committee, who want to provide a sensory garden there as a place for young and old to sit quietly and enjoy the pleasant surroundings, went into top gear this week to push for votes for the scheme.
Public votes on a low-cost, non-premium rate phone number were needed to win the prize and leaflets were distributed around the town on Tuesday with the number to ring to support the sensory garden. The number was also displayed prominently on the front of the Assembly Rooms in the Market Place.
That evening, a two-minute sequence filmed the previous week at the recreation ground in Haspalls Road was shown on TV, with committee member Anne Greaves making the case for Swaffham helped by schoolchildren from the town and sensory garden designer Sarah Brown. Fourteen-year-old Sophie Willis, from the Sacred Heart Convent School, was also seen reading out her poem which will feature on a foundation stone in the garden when it is built.
The TV commentators said that phone lines had been "inundated" with calls for both projects that night, but it was the NDA's scheme for a minibus to provide an outreach service to deaf people in villages throughout Norfolk which won the day.
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