Online voting begins to decide Lottery Grant winner

The biggest-ever Lottery grant decided by public vote got underway yesterday as online voting began in the Big Lottery Fund's 'The People's £50 Million' contest which is giving people across the UK the chance to decide which big project will be awarded a Lottery grant of up to £50 million.

The public are being given the opportunity to back their favourite of the four projects in the running: Black Country as Urban Park, The Edge at the Eden Project, Sherwood The Living Legend and Sustrans' Connect2, via the website.

To help people decide which project to give their vote to, the website also includes detailed information about the schemes, videos of their celebrity supporters, discussion forums and the latest news from the projects. Voting closes 12 noon, Monday 10th December 2007.

You can view the launch of the Awards, with presentations from the four finalist projects.