There are just four days to go to vote for HMS Cavalier and help it to reach the final of the National Lottery Awards 2010.

The awards are an annual search to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded project and they aim to celebrate and recognise the difference that those projects have made to people, places and communities all across the UK.

HMS Cavalier is competing against nine other schemes in the best education project category for the chance to win the national award and a £2,000 prize.

The closing day for votes is Friday and Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust needs the Medway public to help crown the Second World War destroyer as a winner.

A spokesman said: " This would be a major achievement, not only for The Historic Dockyard Chatham and all the volunteers that have dedicated hundreds of thousands of hours restoring this ship, but also for the whole of Medway and Kent as something to be proud of.

Until 1999, Cavalier was gently rotting in a dry dock on Tyneside. The ship was acquired for preservation and display at The Historic Dockyard, Chatham as the National Destroyer Memorial dedicated to the 143 British destroyers and 11,000 sailors lost at sea during the Second World War.

Now restored, HMS Cavalier is a major heritage attraction and the focus of a range of educational programmes aimed at engaging children and young people of all ages with a strong focus on under-achieving students.

Voters can follow the link from www.thedockyard.co.uk, visit www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk or call 0844 686 1038