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The Distributing Agency for Arts, Culture and National Heritage has recently placed a further call for applications for funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund.

The process of adjudicating the applications received earlier this year is nearing completion and the Distributing Agency will soon be in a position to adjudicate on new applications.

Applications for funding are invited from organisations and associations that promote the arts, culture or the national historical, natural, cultural or architectural heritage and whose activities will be of benefit to the community at large.

The Distributing Agency has identified the following focus areas for funding: creative development, festivals, film production and distribution, public art, heritage and the environment.

Preference will be given to projects that meet the advertised and gazetted criteria especially from the Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and North West Provinces.

In the last round of funding, many of the applications were rejected because of insufficient information supplied and/or incomplete applications. All applicants are therefore urged to ensure that all the relevant information in support of their applications is included.

More information may be obtained by contacting the Central Applications Office of the National Lotteries Board at 012-362 2922 or by fax at 012-362 3899.

Application forms may also be obtained by sending an email to arts@nlb.org.za or by visiting the National Lotteries Board's website, www.nlb.org.za

Enquiries: Sershan T Naidoo, Manager: Player Services & Media Liaison, National Lotteries Board @ 012-362 0306, Fax: 012-362 2590, Mobile: 082-491 3304, email: sershan@nlb.org.za

Issued by the National Lotteries Board

12 September 2002