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    Arts charity wins funding to celebrate NHS 70th birthday

    Tuesday, 10 July 2018 07:00

    By News X @sunriseradiouk

    Photo Credit - HLF

    A Leeds-based arts and social change charity has received a National Lottery grant of £29,800 to run a project which celebrates the 70th birthday of the NHS.

    Space2, which uses creativity to engage with disadvantaged communities across Leeds, will run a year-long project in the east and north east of the city called ‘Many Happy Returns.’

    Supported through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the project will work with local volunteers to collect memories and personal stories of life and health both before and after the establishment of the NHS in 1948 to create an exhibition.

    Dawn Fuller, Space2’s strategic director, said: “We don’t know of any other arts organisation in Yorkshire which is currently celebrating the legacy of the NHS. We will be talking to local people about what it meant to have a national health service for the first time, and the difference it made to their lives and what it means to people now.”

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