We are delighted to have reached the finals of The National Lottery Awards 2013.  The Awards are an annual search to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects, and they aim to celebrate and recognise the difference that those projects have made to people, places and communities all across the UK.

The Bristol Dinosaur Project is competing against six other projects for the title of Best Heritage Project.

We could be in with the chance of appearing on a BBC One show and winning £2,000 to help our project continue its work, but we need your vote to help us win!

Supporting us is FREE, just visit www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards to cast your vote.

Every vote counts, so we really appreciate your taking part! 

You can follow the Awards campaign on Facebook and Twitter (why not tweet your support for us using #NLAwards?)

We’ll keep you updated on our progress - thank you so much.

Next month sees the Bristol Dinosaur Project busy at festivals, including the Cheltenham Science Festival (9th June), and the Bristol Festival of Nature (15-16th June).

At our 'Dinosaur Dig' at the Cheltenham Science Festival, we are running four bookable workshops (Book ref: SF13 10-11am, SF14 11.30am-12.30pm, SF15 1-2pm, and SF16 2.30-3.30pm). To book visit cheltenhamfestivals.com. 

At the 10th Bristol Festival of Nature by the Bristol Harbouside, we have family activities all day from digging up dinosaur bones, to handling real fossils. Visit bnhc.org.uk/festivalofnature for more details of the event. 

Last Thursday we went fossil hunting at Aust with Millpond Primary School. The beach was full of shelly fossils, and all 58 children went back to school with their very own fossils. We were able to find clues which tells us Bristol once used be a desert, and later a deep sea with sea dragons and ammonites swimming arounf. And each class was given a small sample of bonerock, a special type of rock containing copralites (fossilied poo!), fish scales, and fish teeth. 

Ed Drewitt, Learning Officer for the Bristol Dinosaur Project, met with Bristol Kitchen Radio recently to chat more about the Bristol Dinosaur. Here's their latest blog and podcast all about it, 'Old Bones, New Songs'.