Let’s cast a Lotto votes It’s your last chance to have a say in who will benefit from The People’s Projects National Lottery cash awards for good causes. Here are some of the 2017 winners...

DID you know that every time you play a game from The National Lottery, you are helping to contribute to around £30m of funding given to good causes every week, enabling communities across the UK to achieve extraordinary things?

Now it’s your chance to decide where some of that funding should go and help projects near you get up to £50,000 of cash through an initiative called The People’s Projects.

The People’s Projects is a partnership between the Big Lottery Fund (who distribute money raised by National Lottery players), ITV, STV and The National Lottery, which gives the public a say in awarding funding to local projects across the UK.

And you’ve only got a few more days left to vote and help decide who this year’s lucky winners will be.

A shortlist of 95 projects across 19 ITV regions are competing for your vote – so why not make sure you have your say on this year’s winners.

In each region, the three projects with the most public votes will receive grants of up to £50,000 to help them continue their work to bring people closer together, build stronger communities and improve the lives of thousands of people across the country.

There is up to £3m up for grabs, so you can really make an impact on a deserving cause.

To show just how much you are helping incredible community groups make a difference with National Lottery funding, here’s a look back to some of last year’s The People’s Projects winners...

Fitness coaches Tom Scaife and Gareth Bartlett first had the idea for Elderfit when they were asked to come up with exercise sessions for a care home. The friends began going into residential homes in Cardiff and getting residents involved in classes...

housebound and can’t come to classes. That is due for release soon and has already been endorsed by Public Health Wales, the National Falls Taskforce and National Commissioner for Wales. Tom says being able to tailor exercises for all ages and...

home exercise sessions are really targeted at that. But there’s also a huge social element to them which is why people love them so much.” A third element, also supported by The People’s Projects win, has been a DVD for older people who are

BIG FUN Classes are friendly with a strong social side