Pennines Good Cause on TV on Wednesday

Stuart Hedley (foreground), the Watershed Landscape project botanist, and Katie Quantrell, Watershed Landscape project apprentice, conducting grassland species identification in the South Pennines

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The inspirational work of Watershed Landscape will be shown on national television as the nation votes for its favourite National Lottery Good Causes.

Watershed Landscape is in the final of The National Lottery Awards 2012 and its work will feature on The National Lottery Wednesday Night Draws on BBC One at 10.35pm on Wednesday (17 0ctober).

Operating across the South Pennines from a base in Hebden Bridge, The Watershed Landscape Project is a combination of conservation, restoration and education initiatives aimed at encouraging a new appreciation of the local landscape. Volunteers have taken a lead in surveying, celebrating, and encouraging access to this internationally important moorland landscape. It is competing against two other Lottery-funded projects to amass the highest number of votes to win a coveted trophy for Best Environment Project and a £2,000 prize.

Pam Warhurst CBE, Chairwoman of Pennine Prospects, which runs The Watershed Landscape Project, said: “We are thrilled that our work will be promoted to millions on national television. We owe a massive debt of gratitude to National Lottery players for their funding. It has allowed us to change so many people’s lives. We hope National Lottery players will recognise this and vote for us to win the Best Environment category.”

There are seven categories in the National Lottery Awards that reflect the main areas of Lottery funding: arts, sport, heritage, health, environment, education and voluntary/charity.

The public are able to vote for their favourite projects in these categories until Sunday 28 October 2012 at www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards.

The winners will be celebrated at a special star-studded show on BBC One later in the year.