Leeds-based Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre, which unveiled a new £12m home earlier this year, has been named as one of the National Lottery Awards 2011 winners.

The project, which received £4m of National Lottery funding through Arts Council England, was crowned Best Arts Project and was one of seven winners announced on 5 November.

We Were Brothers: WWI A Shared Heritage in Derry, Northern Ireland, was named as the Best Heritage Project, having secured a £32,100 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The Bluebird Care Hampshire Disability Cricket Programme was named Best Sport Project, with more than 1,000 disabled players receiving coaching under the scheme.

Other categories included Best Education Project; Best Environment Project; Best Health Project; and Best Voluntary/Charity Project.

Winners from each of the seven categories, which were voted for by members of the public, have now received an additional £2,000 cash prize on top of their Lottery funding.

Awards host and musician Myleene Klass said: "National Lottery players raise £30m every week for large and small projects across the UK.

"The National Lottery Awards are a fantastic way of celebrating the enormous amount of hard work that goes into making these projects a success."

Details: www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk

Image: The new £12m home of Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre - Jonathan Taylor