The National Lottery Good Causes Awards honour the inspiring work thousands of projects, clubs and individuals from all over Ireland do each and every day.
This year, RTÉ has teamed up with the National Lottery to showcase some of these good causes.
Like the Waterford Walls Project nominated in the Arts category.
The Walls Project is an arts organisation who specialise in the curation of visually stunning, large scale public art. They aim to harness the power of public art to transform largely neglected areas and to connect communities throughout the whole arts process.
The small team has curated a collection of murals by world renowned street artists that would rival that of any other location in the world in the world breathing new life into vacant and unloved building and walls in the city.
The Waterford Walls Project is among 37 national finalists for the National Lottery Good Cause Awards 2019. The awards encompass seven categories: Sport, Health & Well Being, Arts & Culture, Heritage, Community, Youth Affairs and the Irish Language.
Each category winner will receive €10,000 and the overall Good Cause of the Year will receive an additional €25,000. The winners will be announced at a Gala Awards Dinner on November 2.
Last year, more than €228 million was raised by participants of National Lottery games all over the country for good causes. This equates to about €625,000 a day. On average there are approximately 4,000 beneficiaries that receive funding each year.
For the full list of National Lottery Good Causes Awards finalists see here.
