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Olympic hurdler Thomas Barr, Theresa Kavanagh of the Children's Grief Centre (which was awarded Overall Good Cause winner in 2018), and National Lottery CEO Dermot Griffin | Picture: Dermot Culhane
FIVE community projects in Limerick have won this year’s National Lottery Good Causes Awards, it has been announced this Friday.
The five projects are Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre, Granagh Ballingarry GAA Club, the Bergerie Trust, Changing Ireland Community Media and the Southhill Hub.
The awards were created to honour and showcase the inspiring work being carried out by thousands of projects, clubs and individuals in their local communities across Ireland thanks to National Lottery Good Causes funding.
Limerick is home to the 2018 National Lottery Good Cause of the Year when the Children’s Grief Centre won the overall competition last November.
National Lottery CEO, Dermot Griffin said they were “bowled over by the number and calibre of entries we received for these awards and it is proof that organisations supported by National Lottery funding are having a huge impact in their local communities. Recognising and celebrating this impact is what the National Lottery Good Causes Awards is all about”.
Speaking on selecting the winners, businesswoman, Norah Casey, who is Chair of the competition’s judging panel, said it was a privilege to be involved in the awards.
“They truly are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. With more than 480 entries, selecting the county winners has been a very tough job. I congratulate all of those who have come through the County phase of the competition and look forward to the Regional Finals later this month.”
These winners will now go forward to the six Regional finals, competing for a place in the National Finals in Dublin on Saturday November 2. Each category winner will received €10,000 and the overall Good Cause of the Year will receive an additional €25,000.
Nearly 30 cent in every €1 spent on National Lottery games – or over €620,000 per day goes back to Good Causes all over the country in the areas of Sports, Arts, Culture, Heritage, Community, Health, Youth and the Irish Language. Last year alone more than €226 million in funds for Good Causes was raised by participants of the National Lottery.
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