{"id":624259,"date":"2026-06-06T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624259\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:41:12","slug":"young-people-write-song-for-leigh-with-lottery-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624259\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people write &#8216;Song for Leigh&#8217; with Lottery Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lyrics were written by the group, who were supported to rehearse and record by The Lottery Winners. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8216;Song for Leigh&#8217; music video has also been released to celebrate young people in Leigh involved in music, dance and the visual arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been led by Amy Hodgson, a producer from local dance collective Spirix, and funded by Down to Earth and Arts Council England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All the proceeds from the song will go to local arts and education charity the Gill David Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are about 500 creative businesses in Wigan but only 1.5% of local jobs are in the creative sector, below the 4% Greater Manchester average, according to a study looking at creative industries in the borough by consultants WeMadeThat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marti Boardman, one of the young performers, said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there are enough opportunities for young artists like us to help us carry on in the industry and help us with our dreams, and I think more needs to be done about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The experience was amazing. To be working with some big names in the music industry is really a once in a lifetime opportunity and I&#8217;ve learnt so many things along the way that I can then use to help myself progress in the industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lyrics were written by the group, who were supported to rehearse and record by The Lottery Winners. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}