Lion Salt Works Museum seeks votes for Heritage project

The museum beat off stiff competition from more than 600 organisations to get shortlisted for the best Heritage project of the National Lottery Awards.

It is the only contender for this award in the north west, and it must now win a public vote before it can get national recognition for the museum by winning the top award at a televised presentation on BBC One.

To vote for the Lion Salt Works go to www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards or call 0844 836 9674.

Voting runs from 9am on June 22 to midnight on July 20, and the museum is asking everyone to vote for them by phone or online, and to encourage family and friends to do so too.

The Lion Salt Works is competing against six other projects to be crowned winner of the Heritage Award.

As well as generating national recognition for its four-year £10 million restoration of the museum, the award also recognises the contribution of its fun, interactive and educational displays and its innovation programme of events.

The museum was restored and is run by Cheshire West and Chester Council.

Councillor Louise Gittins, Cabinet Member for Communities and Wellbeing at Cheshire West and Chester Council, said: “Cheshire, and in particular its ‘salt towns’ are defined by salt and so this museum is very close to our hearts.

“We are enormously proud that the Lion Salt Works Museum is representing Cheshire and the North-West in this hotly-contended national award.

“Some of our trustees have campaigned for over 30 years to save this site for posterity, and I really hope that everyone will take the time to vote for us.

“It would be a wonderful reward to all those people – staff, volunteers, partners and trustees - who have worked so hard to create this wonderful museum.”

The Museum tells the story of salt and its importance regionally and globally.

It explains why the deep layers of salt beneath the Cheshire plain make a difference to what people see around them.