How you could use that extra 24 hours this Leap Year
It's a Leap Year which means that instead of 365 days travelling around the sun, this year we've got 366.
The extra day comes with its very own traditions and superstitions, probably the most well known being women proposing to their men.
If you’re not proposing or being proposed to, we’ve got some ideas of how to spend that extra day, inspired by the projects you support:
- Give your extra time to others – whether it’s looking after animals at your local community farm, or helping the homeless, renovating an old industrial site into a community space, or supporting young families at your local Home-Start project – join the army of 20,000+ volunteers helping at lottery-funded projects every week.
- Catch up on the latest films – head to your local cinema to view this year's crop of lottery-funded films like 45 years and the BAFTA Award winning Brooklyn, or you could grab some popcorn and head under your duvet to watch classics like 12 Years A Slave, Billy Elliot or the King's Speech.
- Get on your bike – thanks to you there are thousands of miles of cycle paths all over the UK. From National Trust properties, to the National Cycle Network there’s a route close to you to start peddling away.
- Visit a museum or gallery – whether you just want to stand and gaze at the great art collections at Kelvingrove; immerse yourself in technology at the National Media Museum, or learn about the past at one of the Imperial War Museums, entry is free at hundreds of museums around the UK and you can stay as long as you like.
- Get digging – if you’ve got green fingers but no garden, or if you just fancy growing your own food, there are projects like the Unicorn Gardens project or Edible Essex, dotted all around the country, to get you started.
- Go to the theatre – it'll be hard to avoid William Shakespeare this year as the world celebrates his life and work 400 years on since his death. You could go and see one of his classic works performed or see how he’s influenced something more contemporary.
- Try out a new sport – whether its zorbing or zumba, table tennis or taekwondo, there’s a sport out there for every age and ability. Thanks to you, sports centres and community halls are offering more classes than ever before.
Thanks to you there are more than 450,000 projects across the UK that have benefitted from Lottery funding.
The National Lottery has been changing the lives of winners and supporting good causes across the UK since 1994. In that time, there have been more than 7,400 new millionaires created and by playing The National Lottery you raise over £4 million for Good Causes every dayΔ.
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