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Lottery grant helps family groups

From the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, first published Tuesday 30th Mar 2004.

ASIAN families will be offered help after a family support group was awarded a £300,000 grant to start a new base in Hyndburn.

The voluntary organisation Home Start helps to promote the welfare of families which have at least one child under five years old.

Home Start offers support and help to families under stress, and each branch of the group is locally run.

Now a grant of £299,752 has been awarded to the registered charity from Community Fund, a branch of the lottery.

The cash will be used to start a new Home Start base, and to recruit volunteers. The project will focus on Asian families in the area, and will be organised over three years.

New part-time posts will be created including bilingual staff, teenage pregnancy coordinator and a training officer.

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