Your chance to help win a £50,000 grant for a canal restoration project

[Black Ibis]

Yay, excellent, you got the money, who cares?

[sassan]

Yay, excellent, you got the money, who cares?

 

Exactly! We also found out yesterday that we won another grant for the rebuilding of the culvert at Pewsham, so a very good day for us!

[Machpoint005]

An odd situation, but basically, there are 6 finalists (in each region).

 

Each day, two of those compete for £50k.

 

At the end of the three days, the highest-voted loser also gets £50k. I hadn't actually realised the runner-up prize was so generous before!

 

So we lost, but we won!

 

Very pleased that you ended up with the money!

 

Digressing slightly, though, isn't it rather odd the way the whole voting exercise was dressed up as a popular vote, when what was actually happening was that six causes were shortlisted (I know not how) and just the two least popular ones were thrown out. I'd have thought a short list of four winners would have been cheaper to arrange, and hardly any less democratic.

 

Smoke and mirrors somewhere?

[sassan]

I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth!

 

If you're interested in more details of the internal workings of the People's Millions, googling can find you a 2007 consultants' report that makes interesting reading.

 

Here's a photo of the giant cheque being presented:

 

And here's a radio interview from BBC Wiltshire about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02bqg7d (about an hour in)