CHARITIES in Teesside have shared in a £69,000 handout from the Cleveland Community Foundation.

The sum includes £6,100 from the foundation's Teesside Power Fund, £33,105 from the Teesside Youth Development Programme and £29,530 from the Cleveland Fund. In the past year, the foundation has distributed more than £600,000, raised through donations.

Included in the latest round of awards are the Samaritans, Gingerbread, West View Women's Craft Group and a Special Needs Support Group, all in Hartlepool, the Grenfell Club in Redcar, the Eston Grange Pensioners Group and the South Bank Arts Group.

The Cleveland ME Support Group was awarded £1,500 and the Teesside branch of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign received £2,000 as did Butterwick Children's Hospice and the Arthritis Care South Cleveland Branch.

Teesside Hospice Care and Epilepsy Outlook and the Middlesbrough branch of Cruse Bereavement Care also received money.

Junior football clubs benefiting include Tontine at Easterside, and Beechwood, Middlesbrough, Stockton West End, Clavering Park, Hartlepool, William Newton, Norton and Eston Boys.

Promising youngsters will also receive help with training.

These include Sarah Paterson of Saltburn for the harp, Danielle Marie Yare of South Bank for kickboxing, Hayley Cavanagh of Teesville for the Italia Conti Academy in London, Christopher Walsh of Middlesbrough for hammer throwing, and ballet dancers Liam Hobday, of Redcar, Graham Elsey, Hartlepool and Hannah Dukes, from Loftus.