THE village of Sutton Scotney near Winchester is set to feature in an art-based celebration of National Lottery funding at London's Tate Modern art gallery.

The celebrations have been organised by Lotto chiefs to mark their tenth anniversary and feature scores of causes helped by the Lottery.

The exhibit will take the form of a maze made up from 250 items connected with lottery funding, including an article about Sutton Scotney's Victoria Village Hall which was renovated with the help of the lottery's good causes fund.

Sue Lane, secretary of the hall's management committee, said: "The funding was vital and we wouldn't have been able to do what we did without the lottery grant.

"It gave us the opportunity to get an architect in to design us a really decent building for the future.

"Although we raised more than £100,000 ourselves, that only gave us enough to patch up the hall as we have been doing for the last 50 years."

So far the fund has paid out more than £16bn to help pay for 180,000 projects across the UK. The two-day event beginning this Saturday will acknowledge all the causes the Lottery has helped.

As well as the Victoria Hall, which was built in 1897 and for which a grant of £274,000 was given, items making up the maze include Mathew Pinsent's Olympic winning boat and a ferry ticket from a Second World War veteran whose trip back to France for the D-Day commemorative events was paid for by the fund.

Arts and Lottery Minister Estelle Morris said: "The maze at the Tate Modern is a unique way for the public to find out how the National Lottery has touched lives and made a real impact throughout the UK."