Lottery money going to all the right causes  

By • on March 9, 2010, 1:28 pm

I know I only blogged very recently about how the Big Lottery Fund had awarded one of its grants to my constituent and WWII veteran, Mr Nye, so he and his wife could visit the Normandy war graves and beaches. But ... when I heard about the Big Lottery Fund's most recent allocation of grants I had to post something to say how pleased I was that Radio Enfield Hospital Broadcasting had received £6,585 to update its broadcasting equipment.As some of you may know, Radio Enfield is based in Chase Farm Hospital and broadcasts music and talk shows to patients to keep them occupied and keep their spirits up during their time there. Last summer I was invited onto one of their programmes to be interviewed about my time as an MP, the issues affecting Edmonton and a whole number of other topics. It gave me the opportunity to see the valuable work that goes on there and the boost it gives to the patients'...

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