Saltwell Park has been short listed in North East final of The National Lottery Awards 2006.
The park is one of four projects chosen by a panel of judges to go head to head in a public vote to claim the title of the North East’s National Lottery Project of the Year. The other projects are: Pallion Action Group (working with disadvantaged young people in Sunderland), The Bulls Wheelchair Rugby Club (providing an outlet for wheelchair bound people in Teeside) and Segedunum Roman Fort and Baths in Wallsend (preserving a significant Roman heritage in Tyne and Wear). The winner will earn a place in the UK final, and is set to be broadcast on national television later in the year.
Considerable work has been carried out on the park since it was awarded £6.9million of Lottery funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It now attracts around 20,000 visitors a year.
Votes for Saltwell Park can be cast in two ways. Either by telephone by calling 0845 4348939 or via the internet by logging onto http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/ and clicking on National Lottery Awards. Voting lines are open and now and close on 11th August 2006.
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ANYTHING THAT BRINGS SALTWELL PK BACK TO WHAT IT WAS IS WORTH IT; IWAS BORN NEXT TO THE PARK 1943 AND SPENT ME CHILDHOOD IN IT, THERE WAS ALWAYS PLENTY TO DO, WE HAD TO ENJOY IT AS HOLIDAYS AWAY WERE NOT POSSIBLE. I OFTEN WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE ITEMS IN THE MUSEUM, AGAIN I SPENT HOURS THERE AND ONE OF THESE DAYS I'LL GO BACK TO THE AREA AND REMEMBER.
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