GRANTS totalling almost £160,000 have been awarded to community groups by Sheffield Council in the last six months.
Groups benefiting include Handsworth Girls FC, which won £4,000 to recruit and train 20 girls for two under-9s football teams.
Aiming High Dance Group, Lowedges, was awarded £2,323 towards its work teaching street-dance and breakdance to children.
Sheffield and District Chinese School, based at King Edward VII School, Glossop Road, was awarded £1,440 to pay for tutors for lion and dragon dance, folk dance tutors and Chinese music.
Mosborough Junior Rugby Club was awarded £2,059 to pay for after-school coaching, training equipment, and rugby pitch hire for the 2009/10 season.
William Temple Lunch Club, Manor Park, received £1,422, Sheffield Chinese Community Centre was given £1,500 towards its Chinese New Year celebrations in February.
Smaller grants totalling hundreds of pounds went to Young at Heart Keep Fit Group for the over 50s in Worrall, Friends of Firth Park, Friends of Sheaf Valley Park, Handy Hands Lunch Club on Adlington Road in Parson Cross, Hillsborough Agewell Group, Longley Tenants' and Residents' Association Lunch Club, Nether Edge Neighbourhood Group and Wadsley Bridge FC.
To apply for a grant email
vslt@sheffield.gov.uk or call 0114 2734113.
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