The project originally missed out on up to £50,000 in Lottery cash after a nail biting head to head with the Whittlesey Bowls & Petanque For All project on ITV Anglia evening news.

  However, now the competition has drawn to a close in the Anglia West region, the NTGA Ability Zone project has been announced as the region's highest voted runner-up and will also receive a 'Big Lottery Fund' award. A total of four awards and £200,000 has gone to community organisations in the region.

NTGA Ability Zone project aims to provide everyone with the opportunity to participate in trampoline gymnastics, especially those with learning difficulties. The Northamptonshire Trampoline Gymnastics Society will work with the Federation for Disabled Sport to increase participation and widen access to the sport.

The group was last week's fourth and final People's Millions winner in the ITV Anglia West region. This year's People's Millions has now come to an end, with just under 350,000 votes cast across the UK during the competition. A total of 85 awards have been given out to projects and up to £4.2 million in Big Lottery funding has been up for grabs, in the competition where viewers decide who gets Lottery cash.

This is the second year the Big Lottery Fund and ITV have teamed up to bring UK viewers the People's Millions, giving the public a real say on where Lottery funding will go to benefit their community. Last year's contest was a huge success with viewers across the UK casting votes to give 53 projects a share of over £2.6 million to make a difference in their communities. Up to £15 million in grants will be given out by the Big Lottery Fund under the three year public involvement initiative.

Staff and members at NTGA would like to thank everyone who voted for this worthy project and helped us win this grant.

NTGA win two Northamptonshire Sports Awards

NTGA are celebrating after winning 2 categories in front of 300 invited guests at the Northamptonshire Sports Awards.

The Coach of the Year was won by the Academy's head coach, Tracy Whittaker-Smith for her outstanding work this year, which included work with British internationals Jaime Moore and Yasmin Gumbs who made the individual & synchronised finals at the European Championships and 4 British Titles won by Academy members, Yasmin Gumbs, James Higgins and two team titles. Whittaker-Smith was also recognised for the ongoing work at the Academy and the work on the new trampoline centre which will be opening soon.

The second award was won by the Academy's men's team who won two British titles at this year's British Championships at the National Indoor Arena in July. A new and fairly young team that consists of James Higgins who also won an individual British title, Steve Walsh and Danny Creedon were voted Team of the Year .

Harvey Smith, Business Development Director at the Academy said “the Northamptonshire Sports Awards was a great platform to promote both the Academy and gymnastics as a whole. When you are up against priority sports like football and cricket you do wonder if there is any chance of winning. The merit and recognition for the Men's team and coach, Tracy was very well deserved and we would like to thank Northamptonshire Sport for the awards and the presentation ceremony evening which celebrated the county's sporting achievements.”

Olympic gymnast Jaime Moore was also nominated as Sports Personality of the Year in an extremely tough category which was won by England cricket star Monty Panesar and the runner up spot went to swimmer, Caitlin McClatchy who won double gold at the Commonwealth Championships.