Help Sustrans win £50 million from the Big Lottery Fund
We’re delighted to support Sustrans’ bid to win £50 million as part of the Big Lottery Fund: the People’s £50 Million Lottery Giveaway. Sustrans, a longstanding client of Dotted Eyes, is the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity.
In this winner-takes-all contest Sustrans’ Connect2 project is up against 3 other organisations - the Eden Project : The Edge, Black Country Urban Park, and Sherwood: The Living Legend, with the winner to be decided by public vote over the coming weeks.
Sustrans’ Connect2 will transform local travel in towns, cities and villages throughout the UK. By building new bridges and crossings over busy roads, railways and rivers, and linking these into networks of paths, Connect2 will enable people to get where they want to go under their own steam. So whether children are going to school, people to work and the shops, or friends and family to visit each other, they’ll be able to travel on foot and bike for many more journeys.
As many as 6 million people live within a mile of a proposed Connect2 scheme, and 1 million children are attending schools within the same distance. As many as 60 million active, healthy, low carbon journeys will be made each year on the Connect2 schemes, potentially saving 79,000 tonnes of carbon - the equivalent of emissions from 79,000 people’s annual car use.
There are three opportunities to vote - online, from a landline and by mobile. Online voting is now open with phone voting starting at 9am on Friday 7th December.
If you want to be sent the phone number to ring please register at www.sustransconnect2.org.uk or text ‘Connect2′ to 80010.
