Carry A Basketball Not A Blade (CABNAB) needs your support as it competes for votes and the chance to shine on BBC One in this years National Lottery Awards. The project has been plucked from over 750 entries to go into the public vote to decide the winners of this years National Lottery Awards - the annual search for the UKs favourite Lottery-funded projects. Carry A Basketball Not A Blade is competing against six other organisations to win the Best Sports category, scoop a £2,000 prize and rub shoulders with television, sport and music stars at the glamorous National Lottery Awards on BBC One in September. Carry A Basketball Not A Blade (CABNAB) was set up in 2008 by Anthony Okereafor after the death of his two friends from knife crime. The campaign combines basketball coaching with talks about the dangers of knife crime and gang culture. Sessions takes place in schools and at the Newham All Star Sports Academy (NASSA). After their basketball skills training, participants are given awareness talks on various topics affecting their lives in one of Londons most disadvantaged boroughs, such as how to deal with peer pressure and how to take responsibility for their actions. It is easy to vote, so we are hoping that people support us! It would be a fantastic reward for everyone involved in NASSA to receive national recognition for all of their hard work and dedication. TV star and actor John Barrowman will be presenting the National Lottery Awards for the fourth time this year: Every year I am moved by the exceptional work that the finalists of the National Lottery Awards carry out. They typify everything that is right with society - the volunteering, community spirit and selflessness. I urge everyone to get behind Carry A Basketball Not A Blade as they aim to get the recognition they so richly deserve. National Lottery players should be proud that the £33 million they raise for charities every single week goes to projects like this. To vote for Carry A Basketball Not A Blade, please go to lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards or telephone 0844 836 9707 and follow the campaign on twitter: hashtag #NLAwards. Voting runs for four weeks from 9am on Wednesday 25 June until midnight on Wednesday 23 July.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:59:57 +0000
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