The public are being asked to vote for Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum and help it win a top prize.

The attraction is one of 49 finalists in the running for National Lottery Awards, as it competes for the title of the best education project.

With a prize including a £5,000 funding boost, the competition is searching for projects using National Lottery money in extraordinary ways to inspire and educate people.

Based at the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool, the museum is the only institution of its kind in the country to focus on history and contemporary slavery.

Since opening in 2007 on 23 August to coincide with Slavery Remembrance Day and the bicentenary of the abolition of slave trade in Britain, the museum has used funding from the National Lottery to support a wide range of display galleries and enable half a million young people and families to partake in educational activities.

Julia Bryan, senior education manager at the International Slavery Museum, says: “National Lottery funding helped us to open the International Slavery Museum, and it’s fantastic to be in the finals of the National Lottery Awards for our education programme.

“We’re the only museum of our kind to look at aspects of historical and contemporary slavery as well as being an international hub for resources on human rights issues. We deal with a difficult subject and, through education, we believe we can bridge differences and unite people.”

The project with the most votes will be crowned the winner and, as well as the cash to spend on the project, the prize includes a National Lottery awards trophy and a chance to attend the star-studded awards ceremony which will be broadcast on BBC One.

To vote, visit the website lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards. Voting closes at midnight on 27 July.

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