LEIGH coalfield campaigner Alan Stephenson has been invited to a special conference on Lottery cash for former mining areas.
Mr Stephenson, chairman of the North Western Coalfields Community Campaign, has been asked to attend the summit in Barnsley by the Government.
It will try to find out why former coalfield areas are failing to take up enough of the Lottery grants available to them.
The day-long conference will show campaigners and local authorities in such areas how to maximise the take up of Lottery money to regenerate coalfield areas.
It follows a recommendation by the Government's Coalfields Taskforce in June that more should be done to get Lottery money into the areas.
Culture Secretary Chris Smith, who will make the keynote speech at the conference, said: "The Government is determined that there must be as great a geographical fairness as possible in the distribution of funds." -
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