{"id":183109,"date":"2025-12-14T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183109\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:37:07","slug":"the-lottery-winners-funding-to-help-leigh-bands-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183109\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lottery Winners: Funding to help Leigh band’s documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Councillor Keith Cunliffe, deputy leader of Wigan Council said: “Leigh is a brilliant place full of young people who have so much to offer and so much potential”.<\/p>\n

The Lottery Winners are set to play Leigh Sports Village on 30 May – serving as the first headline stadium the band have played in their career.<\/p>\n

The documentary plans to chart “the highs and lows of touring” as the band fine-tune their route to the gig.<\/p>\n

Since forming in 2008<\/a>, the band has seen two of their albums reach No.1 in the charts whilst also having supported Robbie Williams across his UK and EU stadium tours this summer.<\/p>\n

Natasha Hawthornthwaite, co-founder of Northern Heart Films – the production company assisting the creation of The Lottery Winners documentary called it a “perfect coming together of screen, film and music”. <\/p>\n

“At the moment there are limited entry points to the industry for aspiring talent, yet, this industry contributes \u00a3125 billion to the economy. <\/p>\n

“It’s really encouraging to see Wigan Council reinvesting 100% of the profits into supporting local aspiring filmmakers [and] I’d love to see other areas follow Wigan Council’s lead.”<\/p>\n

As well as the documentary project, Wigan Council has donated to local arts organisation, Curious Minds, to offer ring-fenced grants of up to \u00a3500 to young people aged between 11 and 18. <\/p>\n

The band’s documentary will soon feature at international film festivals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Keith Cunliffe, deputy leader of Wigan Council said: “Leigh is a brilliant place full of young people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-183109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}