Kildare groups encouraged to enter Good Causes Awards
Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery & Reform Jack Chambers; CEO of the National Lottery Cian Murphy and Mark Dwyer of the Good Cause of the Year 2024 Hand in Hand CLG Photo: Maxwell Photography
THE NATIONAL Lottery have launched this year’s National Lottery Good Causes Awards.
The awards scheme honours the inspiring work and achievements of projects, clubs and individuals all over Ireland, who, with the help of National Lottery Good Causes funding, have had an extraordinary impact on their local communities.
The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, 18 October in Killashee House Hotel in Naas.
Individuals, community projects and organisations in Co Kildare who received Good Causes funding between the years 2020 and 2024 are eligible to apply.
Applications for the awards are now open and beneficiaries can enter and check eligibility at https://www.lottery.ie/goodcausesawards.
The 2025 Good Causes Awards will have seven categories which are: sport; health and wellbeing; arts & culture; heritage; community; youth and Irish language.
Each category winner will receive €10,000 while the overall Good Cause of the Year will receive an additional €25,000.
A special category, ‘Hero of the Year’, will also be announced at the Awards final, in recognition of outstanding work done by an individual within an organisation and will receive a prize of €5,000.
National Lottery CEO, Cian Murphy, speaking at the Launch said: "Everyone who is associated with the National Lottery can feel proud that the funding from ticket sales supports the success stories that are the Good Causes.
"Since 1987, more than €6.5 billion has been raised for Good Causes. In 2023 alone, €227.9 million was raised for Good Causes in communities all across Ireland."
Minister Jack Chambers, a strong advocate of the awards, commended the work being carried out by Good Causes all over the country.
"As Minister and as a public representative, I see first-hand the enormous value this initiative has generated across our towns and cities, on our sports fields, in our community halls, in the arts, and in supporting people in our communities for the past four decades."
