Updates

The Health Lottery Foundation updates

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4 girls in football kit sit on the floor at Bloomsbury Football Foundation

Young people

Visiting Bloomsbury Football Foundation

Bloomsbury Football Foundation currently supports over 2,200 girls per week – making the organisation the largest provider of girls’ football in the UK, and by far the largest with a charitable mission that also offers financial support to players.

Three young people hold up autumn artwork

Disability inequity

Speech and language support for young people with Down Syndrome

Thanks to players of The Health Lottery, £21,513 has been awarded to Down Syndrome Training & Support Service in Bradford. This a charity supporting young people and their families.

A woman holds a gift bearing the words Beauty Banks

Health disparity

Taking part in the Beauty Banks Wrapping Day

We took part in wrapping thousands of donated gifts. 96 volunteers gift wrapped more than 3,500 donated beauty and hygiene gifts to be distributed across the UK later this week.

Funding information

A surprise for 4 charities – a £75K donation to each

Beauty Banks, Crisis, Dreams Come True and FoodCycle all work to improve wellbeing. In different ways they offer support and dignity to people who find themselves – through no fault of their own – in tough situations.

A girl in a hospital bed with a book reading

Young people

£751,180 to 45 charities supporting young people across Britain

Thanks to players of The Health Lottery, £751,180 will now be distributed to 45 charities across Britain, making a tangible difference to the health and wellbeing of young people. The Health Lottery Foundation is delighted to announce the results of its first open application funding round, held in June.

Project update

Heading out to the hills with Farms for City Children

On Thursday 2 October our CEO Delva Patman joined year 6 children from Alfred Salter School, London on their farm residential at Nethercott House in Devon.

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Chronic disease

Organ donation week – the National Kidney Federation (NKF)

The National Kidney Federation are the largest kidney patient charity in the UK. With approximately 3.25 million people living in the UK with kidney disease, the National Kidney Federation are a lifeline of support and hope to patients and families.

Four women stand in front of a presentation screen in a classroom. It says student minds on the screen.

Project update

A visit to Leeds to meet Student Minds

Delva and Paul met some of the Student Minds team to hear about empowering new student union officers and student society leaders to help address health inequalities.

A man in a blue sport in mind shirt plays table tennis

Preventative care

Sport in Mind – physical activity to improve wellbeing

Earlier this year The Health Lottery Foundation awarded a grant of £15,000 to Sport in Mind to help fund their Hampshire weekly sport and physical activity programme.

A group of peoples stand in a circle in a forest

Chronic disease

Meeting heart patients at a woodland wellbeing session in Bristol

Hosted by The Forest of Avon our CEO, Delva Patman took part in a woodland wellbeing sharing day with heart patients and their families, in Bristol.