Arts, sports, heritage projects and community groups have all benefited from National Lottery funding, new figures reveal.

Over £350,000 of National Lottery funding was invested into Slough projects alone, last year.

Among the grants awarded to a wide range of projects in 2014, £100,00 went to Slough museum for its Slough Stories exhibition, £9,278 went to, Art Beyond Belief charity, to run a programme for people newly diagnosed with dementia and £6,269 went to Britwell NAG, a voluntary and community organisation, to create a community garden which will also serve as a memorial garden for people living in Britwell.

John Barrowman, presenter of last year’s National Lottery Awards show, said: “Every National Lottery player should feel proud of the incredible difference they are making to the local community.

“They raise an astonishing £33 million every week for a huge variety of life-changing projects.” These projects, or any organisation that has ever received Lottery funding, has the possibility of gaining national recognition through entering the National Lottery Awards 2015.

The winners of the awards will receive a £2,000 cash prize and national recognition at a star-studded ceremony broadcast on BBC One later this year.

To nominate a favourite project or enter a project of your own in this year’s National Lottery Awards, visit www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk or call 0207 293 3599 to find out more.

Entries must be received by midnight March, 25.