Swaffham needs YOU to get Lottery funding
TODAY is the crunch day when Swaffham needs your votes if it is to get an £80,000 prize from the Big Lottery to help build a sensory garden in the town's Recreation Ground.
Swaffham's scheme goes head-to-head with Norfolk Deaf Association's Listen Here! project on this evening's Anglia East news programme, at 6pm, to try to win the money from the People's Millions fund, run in conjunction with ITV.
The winner will be chosen by the public voting for their favourite project, on a low-cost, non-premium rate phone number, between 9am and midnight today.
The phone number to vote for the Swaffham project is 08702 405 402 and more details can be found on the Big Lottery website – www.biglottery fund.org.uk/peoplesmillions – from this morning and on tonight's Anglia news programme.
A big crowd turned out at the Recreation Ground on Wednesday for filming of a two-minute sequence on the Swaffham project, which aims to provide the sensory garden as a place for people to sit quietly and enjoy the pleasant surroundings.
It will have a foundation stone, inlaid with a poem written by 14-year-old Sophie Willis from the town's Sacred Heart Convent School. Sophie won a poetry competition which attracted 93 entries from pupils at the Sacred Heart, Swaffham First and Nursery and Hamond's High schools, and she was at the filming session.
Sensory garden designer Sarah Brown was also there with the plan for the garden and a "mood board" showing its special features.
Deputy town clerk Michelle Meyrick said: "We were really pleased with the turnout of just over 100 people." Students from Swaffham College, Hamond's High and the Sacred Heart, and toddlers from the preschool at Swaffham Community Centre, were among them.
Mrs Meyrick urged people to vote for the Swaffham project. She said it would cost 10p a call on a BT landline and people could vote up to ten times from the same phone.
"We will have a banner with the phone number on the front of the Assembly Rooms and leaflets will be dropped through doors," she said.
If the Swaffham project loses tonight, it will have a second chance as it is one of eight projects being featured until Thursday and on Friday a further winner will be declared from the best of the four runners-up.
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