£10,000 National Lottery windfall for Oban Hospice
Oban Hospice is celebrating a special festive gift after being awarded £10,405 in National Lottery funding to support its wellness and wellbeing work.
With dedicated community support to fundraising, The Dove Centre in Oban has grown from operating as a one day a week service in the local hospital in 2006 to having its own dedicated space, scheduled to open in early 2025.
The new £10,405 award gives a helping hand as The Dove Centre prepares to move by helping buy additional furnishings to provide welcoming flexible spaces.
A Hospice spokesperson said: "Our small staff and volunteer team have learnt that alongside the outreach support our services are enhanced working inhouse. This funding enables us to support those with life limiting conditions to gain not just individual support but also gain peer support for others through participating in our group activities."
The new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery players for good causes and is the largest community funder in the UK, will also enable the hospice to investigate and pilot new collaborations, information sessions and new activities that meets the needs of our residents in Oban and Lorn.
The spokesperson added: “We’re delighted that The National Lottery Community Fund has recognised our work in this way. Now we will be able to widen the range of opportunities to assist our clients to continue to gain support from our services in our new larger space ready to support multiple groups and activity.
"The Dove Centre is fortunate to have volunteers who continue to commit time and energy to support our services. This funding will also enable us to offer additional training and new opportunities with the opening of the new premises. Anyone interested in volunteering with us, please do get in touch."
The National Lottery Community Fund aims to distribute at least four pounds of billion of National Lottery funding by 2030.
As part of this, the funder has four key missions, which are to support communities to come together, be environmentally sustainable, help children and young people thrive and enable people to live healthier lives.
Lottery players raise over £30 million a week for good causes across the UK. Thanks to them, last year (2023/24) The National Lottery Community Fund awarded over half a billion pounds (£686.3 million) of life-changing funding to communities across the UK, supporting over 13,700 projects to turn their great ideas into reality.
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