Advice offered on Lottery cash bids

GROUPS in the Lothians will find out how they could benefit from a share of £400 million of funding when the Big Lottery Fund comes to Midlothian.

The Big Lottery Fund team will be on hand at the Loanhead Miners Community Centre on September 7 to provide practical advice and support for local groups that want to explore an idea for funding, or need advice on how to make a good application.

The event is part of a three-month tour of Scotland between August and October, during which the team will deliver more than 40 information sessions.

Over the next five years, the Big Lottery Fund has 400m to invest in Scotland's communities, with the majority of that funding flowing through its multi-million-pound fund, Investing in Communities.

The information day will be held between 10am and 4pm.