Meet YOUR National Lottery cash heroes

Amazing good causes all over Scotland are celebrating the news they have scooped up to £50,000 of National Lottery funding to boost their work.

The winners of The People’s Projects, which were chosen by a public vote, will receive a share of £3million to help them take their work transforming lives and communities to a new level.

This week some of the nine winners in Scotland were surprised with the good news by STV camera crews, who captured their shock, disbelief and joy.

The People’s Projects is a partnership between the Big Lottery Fund - the largest distributor of National Lottery funding - ITV, STV and The National Lottery. It gives you the chance to decide how some of the £30million raised for good causes by National Lottery ticket sales every week, is shared out. GOOD CAUSES of Alness, RossShire, who will use the funding to expand their programmes in schools as well as launching “street gym” classes aimed at disengaged young people.

INTERVENTION Chris’s House in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, provides support, intervention and assistance to people who are suicidal. They will use their extra funding as a People’s Projects winner to provide a community hub with an IT suite for skills training, a “let’s talk” café run by peers, dance and music classes, therapy, a sensory therapeutic room, massage and aromatherapy, and also employ a development worker.

Table Tennis East Lothian, a project run by Haddington Table Tennis Club, will use The People’s Projects funding to increase participation in the sport in the local area, including schools, community centres and village halls.

The funding will provide 68 additional tables, along with extra staff and volunteers to coach and co-ordinate activities aimed at schools, over-50s, and community clubs for people of all ages.

We were with STV crews as they surprised some of the other Scottish winners with the good news. Here’s what happened…