Make a date to vote
An innovative charity is looking for your votes to help them bag a top lottery prize.
Dates-n-Mates will be at the Piazza Shopping Centre tomorrow to appeal to shoppers to vote for them in the 25th Birthday National Lottery Awards.
The dating and friendship agency run for and by adults with learning disabilities beat off stiff competition from more than 700 organisations and is in the running for Best Community and Charity Project.
Each award winner will get a £10,000 cash prize, a National Lottery Awards trophy and attend an awards ceremony to be broadcast on BBC One in November.
Dates-n-Mates runs monthly events in Renfrewshire including bowling, karaoke, quiz nights and day trips. There are also five open events each year including a Valentine’s Ball and Hallowe’en party.
John Paul Moffat, Dates-n-Mates’ national director, said:“Adults with learning disabilities just don’t have the same opportunities to meet people – sometimes they only know their families or the people who are paid to care for them.
“It can be a very lonely and boring life. “National Lottery funding has allowed Dates-n-Mates to offer people the chance to get out and about, make friends and find love – and this absolutely transforms lives.”
Pop into the Piazza Shopping Centre between 11.30am and 3.30pm at its Gauze Street entrance tomorrow to cast your vote or go online to lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards.
Voting runs until midnight on Wednesday, August 21.