Big Lottery Fund

The New Year is about lists, resolutions and new beginnings. We asked you to send in audio clips telling us your hopes, aspirations and predictions for the upcoming year.

A big thanks to all those who contributed.

New Year best bits podcast

Here is a podcast giving a flavour of the submissions we received:

Listen to some of your submissions in full here:

Emily Kerr-Muir, Campaign Manager at Body & Soul, talks about the Lottery-funded Life in my Shoes film and campaign, challenging the fear and misunderstanding surrounding HIV in the UK, and is joined by two young people living with HIV explaining their aspirations for 2012:

Chief Executive Peter Wanless tells us his ambitions for the Big Lottery Fund in the coming year:

UK Chair of Big Lottery Fund, Peter Ainsworth tells us his hopes for 2012:

Ruth Shelton, CEO of Emmanuel House Day Centre, talks of her hopes for day centres and the people they support in the upcoming year:

Sheila Ravenscroft, wife of the late John Peel, patron and a key board member for the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts in Suffolk. Hear the ambitious plans she has for the centre in 2012:

Next up, we hear from Stephen Singleton, CEO Suffolk Foundation, tells us of his predictions for the voluntary and charitable sector in the year ahead:

Now listen to Luke, the 16-year-old CEO of Young Pioneers, who talks about the charity’s plans for helping more young people in the coming year:

Next we hear from Maureen McGinn, the new BIG Scotland Chair, who tells us her aspirations for the Big Lottery Fund in 2012: