12:00am Thursday 18th March 2010
By Tony Kearney
A COMMUNITY radio station run by young people and a cinema in a village hall are among the latest projects to be awarded Lottery funding.
Almost £250,000 of grants shared between 30 projects will be announced today under the Big Lottery Fund's Awards For All programme.
A new community radio station for Sedgefield has been awarded £10,000, one of five projects in County Durham to be awarded a grant.
Capture Radio, to be broadcast over the internet, will give budding DJs aged from 12 to 16 the chance to broadcast to a worldwide audience.
Meanwhile, villagers in Craghead, near Stanley, will be able to watch films at a cinema in their village hall and take part in animation classes after a grant of just over £8,000 was made to Craghead Development Trust Ltd.
Middlesbrough-based Tees Valley Arts has been awarded £7,760 for its Moving On project, for young people leaving the care system, part of which will fund a series of 20 art workshops in Darlington St Andrew's Methodist Church, in Durham City, has been awarded £10,000 to create gardens and a children's play area next to the church, while Shotley Bridge Village Hall Association has received £8,315 to improve the building.
James Turner, Big Lottery Fund Head of the North East Region, said: "It's great to see such a wide range of community projects benefiting from this latest round of Awards for All grants, from a community radio station run by young people to the community cinema soon to be set up in the village of Craghead.
"I hope other local groups seize the opportunity to plan some innovative projects of their own and get their applications in."
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