Leisure & Culture

Thanks For Your Help

Unfortunately, we didn't win the £50,000 award as a result of Monday's vote.

But we are still in with a chance of picking up the fifth grant, which will go to the runner-up with the most votes from this week's projects.

Watch this space!

Queen Elizabeth Park Play Area

You can help to create a children's play area - by casting your phone vote on Monday, 23 November.

Tune in to ITV’s CentraI News at 6pm that day and back a scheme to build the play area at Newcastle's Queen Elizabeth Park.

The phone number you will need will also be published on our website on the day.

What's It All About || The Plans || The People's Millions

What's It All About?

The project will develop a castle themed children’s play area in Queen Elizabeth Park. The play area will include natural play features as part of the landscape setting for the main castle feature. Children from local schools and the community will be involved in the design of the play area and creating interpretation panels, which will tell the story of the castle and the development of Newcastle-under-Lyme. The project will provide exercise opportunities whilst stimulating learning about the history of the area. It will improve the local environment by creating a much needed community facility on a currently under-used and uninspiring site which will provide opportunities for local children to access and enjoy their environment through play, exercise and learning.

The Plans

Click on the artist's impression and the sketch plan to see what the new park will look like (both of these links open in a new window).

The Big Lottery Fund

The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) is the largest distributor of National Lottery Good Causes funding, awarding around £600 million every year. To date they have funded over 70,000 projects in the areas of health, the environment, education and charitable purposes. We are committed to bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.

The People’s Millions

The People’s Millions is one of our funding programmes that gives the public the opportunity to directly determine which projects receive funding. The popular programme has been running since 2005 in partnership with ITV.

• The Peoples Millions Website
• Big Lottery Fund

• Residents' chance to vote for play area
• Film Crew Visits Local Park