Cloughmills group providing allotments and community fridge receive almost £20k from National Lottery
A Causeway Coast community group is celebrating being awarded a National Lottery grant of almost £20,000.
Cloughmills Community Action Team have been awarded a major grant of £19,755 from The National Lottery Community Fund Awards for All programme.
This will support the development of wellbeing activities that benefit the whole community ranging from courses and classes in gardening, woodworking, arts and crafts as well as some help with energy costs for the upkeep of the community fridge.
The funding package has also enabled the group to employ a part time Wellbeing Co-ordinator to focus on reaching out to the community on the services provided at The Mill.
Following a public recruitment process, Pippa Campbell has been appointed to this role and she is interested to hear from anyone in the community who wishes to become involved with the activities that take place at The Mill.
Welcoming the funding package, Philip Doran, Chair of the Action Team, said: “We want to thank National Lottery players for making this possible.
"The Mill has been at the heart of the village for a very long time and this funding will enable everyone to enjoy a new lease of life by taking part in our wellbeing programmes at the Mill.”
The Mill at Main Street, Cloughmills was an old flax scutching mill which has been repurposed by the Community Action Team to provide a community allotment garden, a community kitchen and community fridge, workshops for wood and metal working and recently refurbished space for meetings and arts and craft activities.