To say thank you for the £millions raised for good causes every week by players, The National Lottery is offering free entry and special offers at a range of National Lottery funded venues across the UK as part of celebratory open week.

Between Saturday 9^th and Monday 17^th March, anyone visiting the Lookout Café in Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre at Druridge Bay will receive a free regular tea or filer coffee plus free parking when they present a valid National Lottery ticket or scratch card - either a hard copy or digital.

In February 2015, the Trust’s Dynamic Druridge project received £417,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund, a large part of which was spent on the design and construction of a new Druridge Bay visitor facility on its Hauxley reserve to replace the previous building destroyed in an arson attack in June 2010.

Since that date, National Lottery support has enabled the Hauxley team to run scores of free events for members of the public, offer behind the scenes tours of the Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre as well establish the Hauxley Wildlife Group that meets monthly and which is attended by local community members.

Alex Lister, Northumberland Wildlife Trust Druridge Bay Landscapes Manager says:

“We’re delighted to be taking part once again in The National Lottery Open Week as we’ve been fortunate to have received National Lottery funding for so many of our projects - big and small.

“This is our small way of saying thank you to everyone who has bought a National Lottery ticket, helped us on our journey and made a vital contribution to supporting good causes across the UK.

“So whether you play in a syndicate, buy a ticket or tickets each week or have only ever played once, why not come along to Hauxley, enjoy a walk around the reserve and marvel at what you’re playing is helping us do, before enjoying a free tea and coffee on us.”