The team behind the iconic Man Engine is appealing for votes after reaching the finals of the prestigious National Lottery Awards.

The Man Engine is competing against six others in the Best Arts Project category.  

The project beat off stiff competition from over 1,300 organisations – a record number of entries - to reach the public voting stage in this year’s National Lottery Awards, the annual search for the UK’s favourite National Lottery-funded projects. 

The project with the most votes will receive a £5,000 cash prize to spend on their project.

Last summer the colossal mechanical tin miner steamed the length of the Cornish Mining landscape. People across Cornwall poured into bustling town centres, onto remote cliff-tops and around iconic engine houses to greet him.

Celebrating the Cornish Mining Landscape’s World Heritage status, the colossal Man Engine is the largest mechanical puppet ever to be built in Britain.

Will Coleman from Golden Tree Productions said: ’We were delighted when The Man Engine was nominated for a National Lottery Award, and we are even more pleased now that he has reached the final public voting round.

’It will be wonderful if everyone continues to support the Man Engine by voting for us as the UK’s best Arts project in the National Lottery Awards.’

To vote for The Man Engine, please go to lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards or telephone 0844 836 9676 and follow the campaign on Twitter: hashtag #NLAwards. Voting runs for four weeks from today until midnight on 27 July.