How you’re helping to change young people’s lives through surfing
For people like Lily Rowswell, 15, The Wave Project has been a lifeline. Lily is autistic and rarely left the house, but after just one visit to The Wave Project she was hooked and it has changed her life. She has made friends for the first time ever and is much more sociable.
Since launching in 2013, the project has helped over 200 children and young people with varying degrees of physical or mental health disabilities. It is just one of the 450,000 projects that you've supported across the UK, by playing lottery games.
Many of the kids have suffered bullying or bereavement and the sessions engage them in a way many mainstream services can’t – by getting them outside and having fun, rather than focusing on their problems.
The Wave Project is currently competing in the Sport category of The National Lottery Awards, which celebrate the UK’s favourite National Lottery funded projects. If you missed it on Saturday night’s The National Lottery: Five Star Family Reunion on BBC One, you can watch the film here in all its glory. It is one of only seven of the 49 finalists to be selected to star on The National Lottery draw shows over coming weeks.
Joe Taylor, Founder of the Wave project says: “Everyone at The Wave Project is stoked to be featured on the draw show! We’re so grateful to The National Lottery for all the support they have given to our project over the past three years and it’s the icing on the cake for the project to be featured on TV.”
The winning projects in the Awards will receive a £2,000 cash prize, an iconic National Lottery Awards trophy and attend a star-studded Awards ceremony, broadcast on BBC One in September.
To find out more about this project or the 48 other projects in the Awards this year, go to www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards
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