Viking and cowboys are celebrating once more after getting a fistful of dollars, or more accurately, pounds from lotto funding.
Newly revealed figures show that more than £888,000 of National Lottery funding was awarded across North Ayrshire last year, and Largs Viking Festival will receive £5000 of that sum.
The Country and Western Festival in Millport was another big winner, as the Millport Festival Group Association, scooped £8450.
And the Largs Community Sports and Leisure Club, run in the Academy sporting fields, and the school gym hall facility, on Saturday mornings received £7829, including a grant of £2345 to deliver a range of affordable taster sessions. 
A total of 44 Lottery grants were given out in North Ayrshire during 2015; providing a vital boost to arts, sports and heritage projects alongside community groups helping those most in need.
From this week, these examples, or any organisation that has ever received National Lottery funding, have the possibility of gaining nationwide acclaim by entering The National Lottery Awards 2016.
National Lottery Awards winners will receive a £3,000 cash prize and national recognition at a glittering ceremony broadcast on BBC One in October.
If you wish to nominate your favourite project in this year’s National Lottery Awards, tweet @LottoGoodCauses with your suggestions or call 0207 293 3599 to find out more and to enter. Entries must be received by midnight on 9 March 2016.